As highlighted in the Duff & Phelps U.S. Goodwill Impairment Study, goodwill impairments doubled to $57 billion in 2015, a record since the height of the global financial crisis. Duff & Phelps attributed the impairment increases to ongoing weakness in energy prices and “a few significant impairment events in the tech sector”.
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