Accounting treatments of purchased goodwill

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October 30, 2015

 

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However, goodwill can only be recognised when an entity has acquired another entity, as goodwill cannot be purchased or sold as a separate item (Dagwell et al. 2006). Goodwill could be seen as a grey area of the financial statements, and will thereby lead to differences of opinion. Some do not think goodwill meet the requirements of an asset because of worries about exchangeability and controllability of assets, and equating costs and assets (Johnson and Petrone 1998)...
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2006). Goodwill could be seen as a grey area of the financial statements, and will thereby lead to differences of opinion. Some do not think goodwill meet the requirements of an asset because of worries about exchangeability and controllability of assets, and equating costs and assets (Johnson and Petrone 1998)...
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