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Accounting for Goodwill in 2020: Changes Could be Coming for Public Companies

By | October 13, 2020
Accounting for goodwill after a business acquisition could be changing soon as the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) deliberates the current public company model. There are concerns among public companies that the benefits of accounting for goodwill do not justify the costs to prepare the information. As of July 15, 2020, the board is discussing different ways to account for goodwill with no set target date for an exposure draft...