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The Australian Accounting Standards Board included examples of intangible items in its definition of assets in Statement of Accounting Concepts number 4 (SAC 4), issued in 1995. [8] The statement did not provide a formal definition of an intangible asset, but did explain that tangibility was not an essential characteristic of an asset.
Goodwill and intangible assets are usually listed as separate items on a company's balance sheet. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In the b2b sense, goodwill may account for the criticality that exists between partners engaged in a supply chain relationship, or other forms of business relationships, where unpredictable events may cause volatilities across entire ...
In financial accounting, an asset is any resource owned or controlled by a business or an economic entity. It is anything (tangible or intangible) that can be used to produce positive economic value. Assets represent value of ownership that can be converted into cash (although cash itself is also considered an asset). [1]
Accounting for Income Taxes—Investments in Common Stock Accounted for by the Equity Method (Other than Subsidiaries and Corporate Joint Ventures) full-text: Apr. 1972 Parts deleted; Superseded by FASB Statement 96, para. 203(d), and FASB Statement 109, para. 286(d) 25. Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees full-text: Oct. 1972 Amended
Articles relating to intangible assets, assets that lack physical substance. Examples are patents , copyright , franchises , goodwill , trademarks , and trade names , as well as software . Subcategories
Non-financial assets may be tangible (also known as real assets, e.g., land, buildings, equipment, and vehicles) but also intangible (e.g., patents, intellectual property, data). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Non-financial assets can be further divided into produced assets (fixed assets, inventories, and valuables) and non-produced assets (natural resources ...
Intangible property is used in distinction to tangible property. It is useful to note that there are two forms of intangible property: legal intangible property (which is discussed here) and competitive intangible property (which is the source from which legal intangible property is created but cannot be owned, extinguished, or transferred).
An intangible good is a good that does not have a physical nature, as opposed to a physical good (an object). [1] Digital goods such as downloadable music , mobile apps or virtual goods used in virtual economies are proposed to be examples of intangible goods.