stylistics is one of the branches of literary criticism benefiting from linguistics and rhetoric to analyze the text and emphasizes on three essential elements namely text, writer and addressee in literary and critical examination of the work. an’ã¢m (the cattles) surah is a the long surah of koran indicating mainly three columns of islamic ideology and all the vocabulary and artistic images ...

Based on data from the Danish Stock Exchange, this paper analyses the value relevance of goodwill and goodwill amortization. Until Danish accounting legislation was changed as of January 1, 2002 companies were allowed to write-off goodwill or capitalize it subject to amortization, which provided a richer information set, as goodwill must be capitalized under most other accounting regimes. The v...

Accounting for goodwill is again controversial as Australia adopts international accounting standards from 1 January 2005. The current method of accounting for goodwill will change dramatically as detailed in the AASB’s ED109 and IASB’s ED3. Goodwill acquired in a business combination will no longer be amortised but rather goodwill will be tested for impairment annually (ED3, para 54). This pap...

This study investigates the factors affecting acquirers’ allocation of purchase price between goodwill and identifiable intangible assets with finite lives. SFAS 142 replaces goodwill amortization with periodic impairment tests that are based on fair value estimates, while most identifiable intangible assets are still amortized over finite useful lives. As a result of the differential accountin...

Financial advisers are often asked to value goodwill within a corporate transaction environment. These goodwill valuations may be performed in the due diligence phase of the corporate transaction for transaction pricing and structuring purposes. These goodwill valuations may be performed in the consummation phase of the corporate transaction—as part of the preparation of a transaction fairness ...