Intangibles Measurement

I just took a quick break from my vacation week to participate in the IAFS monthly conversation about intangibles. Here’s the presentation I made on Intangible Asset Performance and Financial Results.

It builds on the recent video we posted that shows how to model the intangible factory. Read more

Training (and spending on intangibles in general) as an Investment?

Clive Shepherd asks whether spending on training is an investment in this thought-provoking post. He makes the comparison to spending on other kinds of business operations to highlight the challenges of going the investment route. Then he takes Read more

Intangible Cost, Not Value

At the recent conference on Intangible Assets at the National Academies, the discussion “Intangibles in the Firm” consisted of two presentations, one by Baruch Lev, Professor of Accounting and Finance at the Stern School at NYU, and the other by Ron Bossio, Senior Project Manager from the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

It is not surprising that the organizers of the conference turned to two accountants to explain the “state of the art” of intangibles in the firm Read more

The New Building Blocks of Business

The growing importance of intellectual capital to the success of companies is leading to changes in the field of management. The best way to understand these changes is to visualize them in relation to the ten building blocks of a traditional business Read more

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