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Discover how amortization and impairment affect intangible assets such as patents and goodwill, and understand their impact on a company's balance sheet.

Over the past several years, healthcare data breaches have resulted in the loss, theft, unauthorized access, impermissible disclosure, or improper disposal of millions of healthcare records. Last year ...

Matthew Young: We recently upgraded our economic moat rating for Waste Management to wide from narrow. Recall Waste Management provides collection, disposal, and ...

Intangible drilling and development costs (IDCs) are capital in nature; however, the IRC and regulations provide alternatives for treatment of such costs. The individual or entity that holds the ...

Philadelphia has the highest murder rate of America’s 10 largest cities. One victim is shot here every seven hours. But there are other ways to measure the impact of violent crime, including its ...

Expense control keeps businesses in the black. When an employee gets injured on the job, the organization ends up writing checks for unplanned expenses and may suffer intangible costs that affect its ...

According to IMS Health, global pharmaceutical sales topped a whopping $1 trillion in 2014, and they're on pace to grow to as much as $1.3 trillion by 2018. These figures shouldn't come as a huge ...

Gross domestic product in the United States for the third quarter of 2016 was revised higher from the preliminary estimate of 2.86% to now 3.109%, which is to say there is once more no difference.

Over the past several years, healthcare data breaches have resulted in the loss, theft, unauthorized access, impermissible disclosure, or improper disposal of millions of healthcare records. Last year ...