EU COMPANIES WRITE OFF £60BN OF GOODWILL

摘要

European companies have reported their biggest goodwill impairments since the financial crisis, writing off €76bn (£60bn) in asset values of former acquisitions last year. The analysis of the largest companies on the STOXX Europe 600 Index, by US investment bank Houlihan Lokey, showed that more than a third of the companies recorded market values for their companies at or below book values in 2011 -twice as high as levels reported in 2007.