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A How is it that auto companies spend so much money and there is such vague disclosure on where it’s going? Or how their ambitious projects are progressing? Investors should be pushing accounting standards boards and companies to give them more. With the onset of electric cars and autonomous vehicles, companies are increasing their focus on technology and technical know-how over the traditional nuts and bolts of putting vehicles together. But it’s hard to see this in their financial statements. These firms splash out on research and development budgets they are some of the biggest spenders in the corporate world. But there are few details about how this money is being allocated as it finds a home in intangible assets, or other undetermined line items. Several other associated costs like information technology and employee training get buried. ....
Tanay’s Newsletter Share One of the big shifts in the economy has been the rise of intangible assets such as software, data, customer franchises and so on, which now make up a bulk of enterprise value. While the world has changed, accounting standards have not, which in my view has made income statements and balance sheets less relevant. Today I’ll cover this rise of intangibles and how it has made accounting less relevant. The rise of intangibles Back in the day, a majority of most companies value stemmed from tangible assets. These were things like plants, machinery, raw materials and so on, which were then transformed into finished products and sold and thereby converted into revenue. ....