stackyFACTSYou know that feeling when you overpay for something and have to justify it to your business partner? Corporations call that goodwill. When a company acquires another for more than its actual net asset value, the premium is slapped onto the balance sheet as an intangible asset just to keep the ledgers mathematically balanced.
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