Asset of Goodwill in Business

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"The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature of "goodwill" in business, and to look at how it is measured. Also, we will examine the problems of "goodwill" and analyze the price of goodwill when a business is purchased.

Normally, goodwill is seen in an annual report. The term there means an intangible asset. Goodwill of suppliers, workers, customers, is listed in the category of intangibles, but recently this term has been much abused. In annual reports of major companies, the amounts assigned in this category often appear to be arbitrary. If the value "goodwill" listed is as much as 20 percent to 30 percent of the total assets, this could be a signal that the company is short of "tangible" assets or long on liabilities. This has happened to many companies, in the mergers and acquisitions period of the 1980s."

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