Asset which sits in the balance sheet for years without moving, then suddenly wipes out all profit in a single quarterThe most dangerous number on a balance sheet is not always the one that looks wrong. It is often the one that depends heavily on management...
27 Jun, 2026, 09.52 PM IST
ETMarkets PMS Talk | A cooling—not a collapse—of the AI trade could be a tailwind for Indian equities: TrustLine CEOGlobal markets face AI investment boom risks, but a measured cooling could boost Indian equities by attracting foreign capital. N. ArunaGir...
26 Jun, 2026, 09.00 AM IST
Elon Musk loses trillionaire status as SpaceX rally fadesElon Musk's net worth has dipped below the trillion-dollar mark following a significant slump in SpaceX and Tesla shares. Just weeks after ...
24 Jun, 2026, 06.33 PM IST
Forget fake invoices. The real risk is the assumptions made in the balance sheet to hide lossesMost accounting risks make noise. The biggest one on the Indian balance sheet doesn't. It hides inside growth assumptions, discount rates, ...
21 Jun, 2026, 01.48 PM IST
The story behind Wadhwa Wise City, an integrated township envisioned as a complete urban ecosystem in PanvelFifteen years ago, Panvel was a barren hillock, but Vijay Wadhwa envisioned it as Mumbai's next urban center, addressing the city's growing...
04 Jun, 2026, 04.09 PM IST
Quote of the day by Tom Gayner: "Equities are congealed intellectual capital, and that is what I want"Investor Tom Gayner views stocks as ownership in businesses built on human ingenuity. He emphasizes that a company's value stems from its i...
03 Jun, 2026, 06.00 PM IST
401(k) to gold IRA rollover 2026: Why investors are shifting retirement savings into physical gold protection?Retirement investors are rapidly searching for 401(k) to gold IRA rollover strategies as economic uncertainty grows across the United State...
25 May, 2026, 09.39 PM IST
When the acquisition looks great but the footnote doesn't: How Indian managements turn deals into balance-sheet fictionAcquisitions are among corporate finance’s most celebrated events. But the harder story usually emerges later, when the accounting begins t...
24 Apr, 2026, 11.03 PM IST
ET Prime Special: How companies manipulate their balance sheet and take investors – and even banks – for a rideBrands, software, development costs, and licences exist only as numbers on a page, and their valuation rests entirely on management’s assum...
06 Mar, 2026, 10.13 PM IST
‘Economies are now shifting from tangible manufacturing to intangible investment — India is at the top of that growth’Jonathan Haskel highlights the shift from tangible to intangible economies, driven by outsourcing and demand for diverse goods. Intangible ...
18 Sep, 2025, 09.44 PM IST
Investments rise in data, AI, outpacing physical assets: UNThe purchase of physical assets was eclipsed last year by a surge in investment in intangible items like software, data and AI, the UN said...
09 Jul, 2025, 11.39 AM IST
India outpaces major economies in growth of intangible investmentsThis growth underscores India's expanding role in global innovation and intellectual property. The report released by the World Intellectua...
10 Aug, 2024, 12.39 PM IST
Leadership and long-term mega trends: Utpal Sheth on identifying 'Gorilla' companiesWe have already established that value creation is different from wealth creation. So, in my experience, there are three large components t...
03 Jun, 2024, 08.00 AM IST
Walmart paid the most for Flipkart's goodwill, intangible assetsWalmart said $5 billion in Flipkart’s assets were intangibles while $13.6 billion was goodwill.
30 Mar, 2019, 02.40 PM IST
Leaders in intangible economy will do better, and laggards worse: Author Stian WestlakeMarket economy, marked by intangibility, behaves differently and has profound social and economic implications. Inequality and social polar...
13 Jan, 2018, 11.30 PM IST
- India's buzziest brands: The Drucker Renaissance
Peter Drucker once made a profound observation that has been lost in the sands of time: “Because the purpose of business is to create a cus...
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- In search of brand equity
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