Description: Goodwill may be either purchased or internally generated. This excellent book provides an historical review of accounting literature, including professional standards, relating to methods of accounting for purchased goodwill.
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"Never in my twenty plus years of valuing, teaching goodwill and fair value including serving state and national committees including the FASB have I seen such a thoroughly researched and cogent history of goodwill. M.H. Bloom captures the very essence of the tension in goodwill between relevance and reliability... I had no idea such tension went back over a hundred years. The reader of this book will acquire a new appreciation for the age-old difficulties management faces today in presenting the most meaningful financial results of the company." Michael Mard, Financial Valuation Group, USA.