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A franchise fee is a fee or charge that one party, the franchisee, pays another party, the franchisor, for the right to enter in a franchise agreement. Generally by paying the franchise fee a franchisee receives the rights to sell goods or services, under the franchisor's trademarks, as well as access to the franchisor's business processes.
Amortization is the acquisition cost minus the residual value of an asset, calculated in a systematic manner over an asset's useful economic life. Depreciation is a corresponding concept for tangible assets. Methodologies for allocating amortization to each accounting period are generally the same as those for depreciation.
United States, 740 F.2d 572 (7th Cir. 1984), [1] is a case decided by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit related to the amortization of intangible property. [ 2 ] Conceptually, amortization is a mechanism that allows taxpayers to recover the cost of property over the life of an asset when they are precluded from taking ...
Amortization applies to your intangible assets and gives you a better idea of your business’s value.
A company's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (commonly abbreviated EBITDA, [1] pronounced / ˈ iː b ɪ t d ɑː,-b ə-, ˈ ɛ-/ [2]) is a measure of a company's profitability of the operating business only, thus before any effects of indebtedness, state-mandated payments, and costs required to maintain its asset base.
In tax law, amortization refers to the cost recovery system for intangible property.Although the theory behind cost recovery deductions of amortization is to deduct from basis in a systematic manner over an asset's estimated useful economic life so as to reflect its consumption, expiration, obsolescence or other decline in value as a result of use or the passage of time, many times a perfect ...
This fee can be renegotiated when the franchise agreement comes up for renewal, usually at intervals of 10 to 12 years. Although it is paid to a government, it is not a tax. Franchise fees are governed under Section 622 of the Cable Communications Act of 1984. [2]
Amortization or amortisation may refer to: The process by which loan principal decreases over the life of an amortizing loan Amortization (accounting) , the expensing of acquisition cost minus the residual value of intangible assets in a systematic manner, or the completion of such a process