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Friday, 24 May 2013

Goodwill is accounting at its most confused

Badwill

A European regulator has complained that goodwill writeoffs are inadequate. Inconsistency is one issue. The main problem is that the rules make no sense. They rely on a melange of traditional cost-based record-keeping, doubtful financial theory and blind trust in markets.

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