Insights

Mar 24, 2023

20 largest customer portfolios listed on MARKABLES

As per March 24, 2023, MARKABLES lists 12,571 acquired customer portfolios, their values, valuation parameters, earnings margins, useful lives and attrition rates Nineteen of these 12,571 exceed the value...

Feb 13, 2023

Sector snapshot: Customer Value of Professional Service Firms

In this snapshot we have a closer look at professional service companies – law firms, accounting firms and tax consultancies – and their value drivers All in all, we analysed the customer portfolios of...

Feb 7, 2023

Deloitte‘s Transfer Pricing Branch in Poland mentions MARKABLES

In transfer pricing, the verification of the marketability of transactions with related parties is carried out on the basis of the analysis of comparative (market) data, as Deloitte Poland suggests on...

Feb 7, 2023

Customer relations – not suitable to be treated as intangible assets?

In an almost unnoticed motion in March 2022, the FASB took position against counting customer relations as intangible assets, but rather subsuming them into goodwill CFODIVE and Thomson...

Jan 25, 2023

MARKABLES achieves outstanding growth in market for intangible asset valuation

CH-Schwyz, 19th January – 2023 Swiss data provider MARKABLES (Trademark Comparables AG) reports outstanding growth in 2022, even in a challenging economic environment with a substantial downturn in global...

Dec 8, 2022

Valuing Intangible Assets using the Market Approach - Comparative Analysis of Alternative ...

Whenever a valuator choses to apply a market approach, he or she has to establish comparability between observable market transactions and the valuation object First level of comparability is close proximity...

Nov 20, 2022

Value of global intangible assets falls by 25%, or 14 trillion US$

The value of global intangible assets falls by 25%, or 14 trillion US$(!), according to the lastest GIFT™ study released by Brand Finance last week Prima facie, this sounds quite dramatic for issuers...

Oct 10, 2022

Valuation is about Tech and Data. ValTech.

Basically, valuation is the determination of a price for a hypothetical transaction which (almost always) does not happen in this form or at this time Therefore, the result of a valuation exercise often...

Sep 17, 2022

Sector snapshot: trademark royalty rates for veterinary drugs

Have you ever heard of veterinary drug brands Like Follistim®, Esmeron®, Frontline®, Ivomec®, Biomin®, to name a few If not, don’t worry It is a market for specialists (veterinarians), but a very...

Sep 17, 2022

New findings: trademarks are key factors in transfer pricing

Cross-border profit shifting by multinational corporations (MNCs) gradually declines after 2011, consistent with the BEPS initiative and the emergence of more stringent policies to fight it However, this...