What is Regency Energy Partners LP Intangible Assets?
Intangible assets are defined as identifiable non-monetary assets that cannot be seen, touched or physically measured. Regency Energy Partners LP's intangible assets for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2014 was €3,781 Mil.
Regency Energy Partners LP Intangible Assets Historical Data
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Regency Energy Partners LP Intangible Assets Calculation
Intangible assets are defined as identifiable non-monetary assets that cannot be seen, touched or physically measured. Examples of intangible assets include trade secrets, copyrights, patents, trademarks. If a company acquires assets at the prices above the book value, it may carry goodwill on its balance sheet. Goodwill reflects the difference between the price the company paid and the book value of the assets.
Regency Energy Partners LP (FRA:R3P) Intangible Assets Explanation
If a company (company A) received a patent through their own work, though it has value, it does not show up on its balance sheet as an intangible asset. However, if company A sells this patent to company B, it will show up on company B's balance sheet as an intangible asset.
The same applies to brand names, trade secrets etc. For instance, Coca-Cola's brand is extremely valuable, but the brand does not appear on its balance sheet, because the brand was never acquired.
Some intangibles are amortized. Amortization is the depreciation of intangible assets.
Many intangibles are not amortized. They may still be written down when the company decides the asset is impaired.
Whenever you see an increase in goodwill over a number of years, you can assume it's because the company is out buying other businesses above book value. GOOD if buying businesses with durable competitive advantage.
If goodwill stays the same, the company when acquiring other companies is either paying less than book value or not acquiring. Businesses with moats never sell for less than book value.
Intangibles acquired are on balance sheet at fair value.
Internally developed brand names (Coke, Wrigleys, Band-Aid) however are not reflected on the balance sheet.
One of the reasons competitive advantage power can remain hidden for so long.
Be Aware
Companies may change the way intangible assets are amortized, and this will affect their reported earnings.
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Regency Energy Partners LP (FRA:R3P) Business Description
Regency Energy Partners LP was incorporated in Delaware on September 8, 2005. The Company is engaged in the gathering and processing, compression, treating and transportation of natural gas and the transportation, fractionation and storage of NGLs. Its assets are mainly located in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, California, Mississippi, Alabama, New Mexico and the mid-continent region of the United States, which includes Kansas, Colorado and Oklahoma. The Company is divided into five business segments; Gathering and Processing, Natural Gas Transportation, NGL Services, Contract Services and Corporate. The Gathering and Processing - provide "wellhead-to-market" services to producers of natural gas, which include transporting raw natural gas from the wellhead through gathering systems, processing raw natural gas to separate NGLs from the raw natural gas and selling or delivering the pipeline-quality natural gas and NGLs to various markets and pipeline systems. Natural Gas Transportation, NGL Services, Contract Services - owns and operates a fleet of compressors used to provide turn-key natural gas compression services for customer specific systems and Corporate comprises of corporate offices. It operates gathering and processing assets in four geographic regions of the United States: North Louisiana, the mid-continent region of the United States, south Texas and west Texas. The pipeline-quality natural gas remaining after separation of NGLs through processing is either returned to the producer or sold, for its own account or for the account of the producer, at the tailgates of its processing plants for delivery to interstate or intrastate gas transportation pipelines. The Company faces competition in each region in acquiring new gas supplies. The Company is subject to rules and regulations set forth by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources.
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