Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, economics, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) and has ...
The Financial Accounting Standards Board is expecting to publish a new accounting rule in September that will make it quicker and easier to determine whether goodwill must be written down. FASB is ...
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Last week, the SEC announced settled charges against United Parcel Service Inc. for failing to take an appropriate goodwill impairment charge for a poorly performing business unit, thus materially ...
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has decided to set aside a long-running project on goodwill accounting that would have required companies to amortize goodwill on a straight-line basis over 10 ...