Yuganskneftegaz is to be auctioned through the Russian Federal Property Fund to pay that debt, despite company protests that the government is required by federal law to look at other, less-important assets first to settle tax claims.
The bottom line is less important, and intangible assets such as brands mean very little since these companies haven't been around that long anyway," Reamer says.
A study of IC and knowledge management among hospitals in Taiwan found that information capital (IT infrastructure and applications) was less important as a "knowledge asset" than human and organizational capital [ 26].
"The idea of reallocating assets from less important to more important things, especially in a time of genuine emergency, makes common sense and is applied everywhere else in life," he said.
"The process is far less important than the result: putting real assets back to work in the real economy".
Eventually, the income-earning ability of an asset would seem less important than the expected capital gains.
At the other end of the scale, one could also speculate that when the sample size reaches two-digit numbers, a "quantitative study logic" kicks in where a big N is seen as a positive asset and therefore less important to justify.
I decided to analyze investment newsletters to find whether asset allocation has become any less important in recent years and whether it has become any easier to add value through market timing and picking actively managed mutual funds.
Investors have wanted DMGT to get rid of its regional newspaper assets for sometime, with the price less important that the "long-awaited positive step" of a move toward regional newspaper consolidation.
In S3′s digital future, graphic chips are likely to become less important and it makes good sense for the company to divest these low-yielding assets.
