Thursday, January 5, 2012

Accounting Trick Assets are no assets

Unicredit's company balance sheet shows $13.5 billion euros of "tax-deferred assets" – the value of the future tax savings UniCredit has earned by taking losses.

They are worth nothing if the bank doesn't return to profitability.

Unicredit lists $11.5 billion euros of goodwill – an intangible asset that's worth nothing if the bank doesn't survive.

That's $25 billion worth of assets that can't be traded or sold.

Are they really assets?

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