goodwill

CFOs On the Move: Week Ending February 12
People

CFOs On the Move: Week Ending February 12

Eli Lilly, Pilgrim’s Pride, Belden, Goodwill, Taco John’s, Weee, The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Lids, Sema4
By Lauren Muskett | February 12, 2021
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Is COVID-19 a Triggering Event for Impairment Testing?
Growth Companies

Is COVID-19 a Triggering Event for Impairment Testing?

Once companies are able to assess impacts to actual and forecasted results, they should consider whether such impacts represent a triggering event.
By Steve Hills | April 16, 2020
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IASB Floats Rule Changes on Acquisition Disclosures
Financial Performance

IASB Floats Rule Changes on Acquisition Disclosures

The board believes companies should be required to provide more information about how their takeovers have performed.
By Matthew Heller | March 20, 2020
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FASB Turns Up the Heat on Goodwill Impairment Testing
M&A

FASB Turns Up the Heat on Goodwill Impairment Testing

The accounting standard setter's apparent lean toward allowing public companies to amortize goodwill ignores key analytical and economic consequences.
By David McCann | February 12, 2020
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Balance Sheets Filled With Goodwill
Mergers & Acquisitions

Balance Sheets Filled With Goodwill

But goodwill impairments are on the rise, having climbed 23% in 2017.
By Vincent Ryan | January 2, 2019
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GE’s Big Goodwill Impairment Draws Scrutiny
Risk & Compliance

GE’s Big Goodwill Impairment Draws Scrutiny

The struggling conglomerate took the biggest impairment charge in almost a decade, causing the SEC to widen its investigation of GE's accounting practices.
By David McCann | December 6, 2018
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How Important Are Intangible Asset Impairments?
Mergers & Acquisitions

How Important Are Intangible Asset Impairments?

Where there are impairments for intangible assets such as goodwill, other liabilities may be lingering on the balance sheet as well.
By Olga Usvyatsky | July 19, 2018
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Goodwill Impairments Double
M&A

Goodwill Impairments Double

Ongoing weakness in energy prices and some large writedowns in tech resulted in a notable year for goodwill impairments.
By Vincent Ryan | December 16, 2016
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RBS to Take $6B Goodwill Hit
M&A

RBS to Take $6B Goodwill Hit

Royal Bank of Scotland writes down the value of Citizens Financial in an admission it overpaid for the U.S. bank and subsequent bolt-on deals.
By Katie Kuehner-Hebert | February 20, 2015
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Private Companies Gain GAAP Exceptions
Tax

Private Companies Gain GAAP Exceptions

Final rules on two items in the FASB private-company framework — accounting for goodwill and interest-rate swaps — are due by December 31.
By Daniel F. Morrill | December 5, 2013
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Study Links Share Prices, Goodwill Impairments
Technology

Study Links Share Prices, Goodwill Impairments

When the equity market turned around and share prices started moving higher in 2009, using stock price as a key determinant in assessing goodwill impairment became less common.
By Kathy Hoffelder | October 5, 2012
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Making M&A Safer
Strategy

Making M&A Safer

Here are four ways companies can mitigate some of the largest risks of acquiring another business.
By Vincent Ryan | February 1, 2012
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The Goodwill Two-Step
Regulation

The Goodwill Two-Step

FASB's new way to bypass numeric goodwill testing might add to the compliance costs of big, complex companies rather than curb them.
By David Katz | November 1, 2011
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Draining the Pool
M&A

Draining the Pool

An end to pooling-of-interest accounting and less time to write off goodwill could slow down mergers-and-acquisitions activity.
By Ian Springsteel | March 1, 1999
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The Goodwill Games
M&A

The Goodwill Games

Pooling of interests in mergers and acquisitions may be problematic, but so is the alternative.
By Ian Springsteel | September 1, 1997
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