The Financial Accounting Standards Board voted to approve an accounting standards update that would enable more companies to opt for a proportional amortization accounting method for their tax credit ...

Amortization and depreciation are accounting methods used to allocate the cost of assets over their useful lives. Amortization applies to intangible assets like patents and trademarks. Depreciation ...

Amortization is an accounting technique used to distribute asset value or loan principal over time. There are different techniques for calculating amortization and depreciation and there is guidance ...

To appropriately record the amortization of an intangible asset, you need to know the useful life of the item in question, how much it cost to acquire and whether it will have any resale value after ...

Businesses use depreciation on physical assets such as buildings and equipment to spread the cost of the assets over time, allowing the expense to be deducted while the assets are in use. For ...

In 2013, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced a change to the way it estimates gross domestic product (GDP). Going forward, it was going to include intangible assets in its calculations of ...

The International Accounting Standards Board is considering changes in how to account for goodwill under International Financial Reporting Standards, perhaps reintroducing goodwill amortization.

When a company acquires assets, those assets usually come at a cost. However, because most assets don't last forever, their cost needs to be proportionately expensed based on the time period during ...

When assessing the financial performance of a corporation, there are numerous useful metrics you can examine. Two of the main ...