Definition: Purchased goodwill

Category: ESA 1995

The difference between the value paid for an enterprise as a going concern and the sum of its assets less the sum of its liabilities, each item of which has been separately identified and valued. The value of goodwill, therefore, includes anything of long-term benefit to the business that has not been separately identified as an asset, as well as the value of the fact that the group of assets is used jointly and is not simply a collection of separable assets. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=CA-15-96-001&mode=view