# Professor Stephen Ryan discusses the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) stance on allowing companies to amortize goodwill

1 Faculty News November 15, 2019 ![BloombergTax_190x145](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/BloombergTax_190x145.jpg?itok=lb-lVpHD)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg Tax](https://news.bloombergtax.com/financial-accounting/goodwill-accounting-could-go-back-to-the-future?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=ACNW&utm_campaign=0000016e-6b64-da46-a5ee-ffe658b40001) -- “'Impairment makes a lot of conceptual sense,' said [Stephen Ryan](http://stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/stephen-ryan), a professor at the New York University Stern School of Business. 'In practice, it’s very difficult for a number of reasons.'”

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