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A write-down is an accounting treatment that recognizes the reduced value of an impaired asset. The value of an asset may change due to fundamental changes in technology or markets. One example is when one company purchases another and pays more than the net fair value of its assets and liabilities.
Big Bath in accounting is an earnings management technique whereby a one-time charge is taken against income in order to reduce assets, which results in lower expenses in the future. [1] The write-off removes or reduces the asset from the financial books and results in lower net income for that year. The objective is to ‘take one big bath ...
Write-downs on the value of loans, MBS and CDOs due to the subprime mortgage crisis. Company Business Type Loss (Billion USD) References UBS: bank $37.7 bln [1] [2] [3]
Only about 1 in 20 underwater homeowners may qualify for principal reduction under states' recent settlement with five big banks, a new study says. A calculation by a Brookings Institution ...
An asset depreciation at 15% per year over 20 years [1] In accountancy, depreciation is a term that refers to two aspects of the same concept: first, an actual reduction in the fair value of an asset, such as the decrease in value of factory equipment each year as it is used and wears, and second, the allocation in accounting statements of the original cost of the assets to periods in which ...
As mentioned in the 2010 article written by Laux and Leuz, [4] linking banking capital regulation and fair value accounting is the most plausible way fair value accounting could have contributed to the crisis: Asset prices deviate from their fundamental values, which causes a bank to write down its assets and, in turn, depletes its capital ...
Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA on Friday posted a net loss due to weaker aircraft deliveries and write-downs on used airliners as major sales activity stayed quiet amid tie-up talks with Boeing Co.
Stranded assets are "assets that have suffered from unanticipated or premature write-downs, devaluations or conversion to liabilities". [1] Stranded assets can be caused by a variety of factors and are a phenomenon inherent in the 'creative destruction' of economic growth, transformation and innovation; as such they pose risks to individuals and firms and may have systemic implications. [2]