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The measurement and recognition of intangible assets: then and now

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“In the Fortune 500 there are thousands upon thousands of statistics that reveal very little that’s meaningful about the corporations they purportedly describe. At least that’s the verdict of a growing number of forward-thinking market watchdogs, academics, accountants, and others.”(Fortune, April 2001). In today’s economy value is often created by intangible (intellectual) capital. The accounting profession has not met the challenge of measuring and reporting the results of knowledge-based entities. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia estimates that in the year 2000 more than US$ 1 trillion was invested in Intangibles. The problems relating to the measurement and recognition of intangibles are international in scope.

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  • Claire Eckstein, 2004. "The measurement and recognition of intangible assets: then and now," Accounting Forum, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(2), pages 139-158, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:accfor:v:28:y:2004:i:2:p:139-158
    DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2004.02.001
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