Re: IS Assets

This value would I think be classified as Good Will or value added in the same
way as the value associated with the education of your staff. You would have to
get a CA or CPA to answer this question more properly. As a purchaser I would
have to look at the value of your IS soft assets against the value of developing
my own in a other company that did not have them.

Jim Townsend
AS/400 Specialist
CDI Professional Services
Telephone (USA) 802 769 8144
T/L 446-8144
E-Mail Jimtowns@us.ibm.com


HankHeath@aol.com on 08-03-99 06:29:27 PM

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Here's a question that came up recently:

If we are selling a business, how do we value the worth of the IS assets? In
otherwords, on a balance sheet, what value is retained from IS during a
transfer to another owner? I can value the hardware easily. However, there
are also values that can be tacked on for software purchased and developed,
the unique industry knowledge of the staff (if the new owner can retain
them), and the ruggedness of the environment. Has anyone a way of attaching a
value to any of these last items?

Hank Heath
hlheath@ibm.net
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