Год выпуска: 2008 Автор: Martin Bloom Издательство: Страниц: 231 ISBN: 0415437482
Описание
Goodwill may be either purchased or internally generated. A historical review of accounting literature, including professional standards, relating to methods of accounting for purchased goodwill, forms an integral part of the book. The difficulty in accounting meaningfully for goodwill is compounded because, given its foundation in historical cost principles, accounting has been unable to present any information at all with regard to internally generated goodwill within the confines of the traditional Balance Sheet. This, in turn, has led to the evasion of the reality that the two forms of goodwill are inextricably merged.Trying to account satisfactorily for goodwill has been a prime example of R.R. Sterling’s ‘issues conceived in a way that they are in principle unresolvable’. The issue was accordingly redefined as to develop a method by which the current level of information relating to goodwill in the financial statements contained in a company’s Annual Report could be improved. ...
