Accounting

In the article that you sent us to read and do a one page critique on was about Goodwill in accounting it means the amount by which a company's value exceeds the value of its individual assets and liabilities. In the article it explains how the government has passed a law on Goodwill that will now allow companies to assume a loss immediately where as in the past they would have to claim a loss gradually over time .What this means to stockholders in the company is that when the company claims an immediate loss, their shares of stock drop or they completely loss their money. This is a practice that I think is unfair to the stock holders. Also in the article it tells how stockholders will be given a calculation to show how much their stock in the company is truly worth so that they won't get ripped off