How valuable are a company’s IT systems, employee skills, culture? For many, they are worth far more than the physical and financial assets that can be tallied on a balance sheet. Measuring the value ...

Other ideas raised by Jarboe for encouraging investment in intangibles include exploring the creation of an Intangibles Mortgage Corporation (Ida Mae) to regularize the intangibles-backed securities ...

Intangible assets are non-physical assets that bring value to a company but lack a physical presence. Intellectual property refers to creations of the mind that have commercial value and are protected ...

A balance sheet is one of the most important financial documents for any business. Every line item provides information that helps shape decisions about the company’s financial position and future.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the economics of AI. Enterprises are pouring billions into AI. Retail companies alone plan to spend $33.2 million ...

The CFA Institute released a paper Wednesday urging the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board to require more detailed disclosures of intangible assets ...

Maintaining intangible assets is critical for businesses of any size or industry. This need has become significantly more critical in the digital age, where knowledge-based SMEs are driving economies ...

“The growth of intangible assets as a component of company market value is up 35% since 1995, and almost five-fold since 1975.” The strength of many of today’s most valuable companies is based ...

An overarching theme to the workshop was that better information about intangibles is needed for firms to manage these assets efficiently and for policy makers to value them appropriately. It is also ...