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The Restoration Methodology for Valuing Goodwill

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type="main"> A method is proposed by which the goodwill of a business may be valued whenever the conventional accounting method is not available. This ‘restoration’ methodology involves using a combined cost and income approach to value the benefits a hypothetical purchaser of an operating business obtains, by reference to the costs, delays and risks it avoids, by acquiring the operating business rather than the business's identifiable assets alone. Such a value approximates that of the goodwill of the business. To provide some guidance as to how the restoration methodology might be used in a real situation, the actual sale of an interest in the Gove bauxite and alumina joint venture business is considered, where the existence and value of the business's goodwill was a factor in determining whether land-rich stamp duty was payable in respect of the transaction. When the benefits gained by the purchaser of the Gove business are identified by reference to the costs, delays and risks it avoided by purchasing the business rather than the assets, it is not difficult to understand why such a sophisticated purchaser paid (and a pre-empted purchaser was prepared to pay) an amount equal to or greater than the value of the business's identifiable assets in order to obtain those benefits.

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  • Debra Osborn, 2014. "The Restoration Methodology for Valuing Goodwill," Australian Accounting Review, CPA Australia, vol. 24(3), pages 289-295, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ausact:v:24:y:2014:i:3:p:289-295
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    1. Tyrone M. Carlin & Nigel Finch, 2009. "Discount Rates in Disarray: Evidence on Flawed Goodwill Impairment Testing," Australian Accounting Review, CPA Australia, vol. 19(4), pages 326-336, December.
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