A Company’s Digital Goodwill: The Concept and Valuation Possibilities

Abstract

"The article shows that the development of digital economy provides opportunities for expanding the factors influencing the formation of goodwill. Approaches to understanding and formulating the concept of goodwill, its place and role in the landscape of intangible assets, as well as the features of calculation and reflection in accounting in general and in the conditions of the digital economy are considered. The phenomenon of a sharp increase in the market value of “digital companies” since the beginning of the 21st century, as well as a significant shift in the distribution of value factors towards intangible assets, is described. The need for further improvement of the regulatory and legislative support of accounting for intangible assets in the digital economy, including techniques and methods for evaluating intangible assets and goodwill in particular, is noted, which should ensure the introduction of the most rational of them into the regulatory and legislative framework for intangible assets accounting."