The consensus in the merges idea conceptions is necessary to increase fairness (trustiness) and comparability of accounting information about business combinations. In the first case of merging independent companies and their accounting entities we can suppose, that the basic idea of merge is...

In some of the continental European countries (e.g. France), there is a necessity to make a clear distinction between the legal issue of commerce fund (fonds de commerce, in French language), and the related accounting concept represented by goodwill. Fonds de commerce represents a set of...