The costofoutsourcingintangibleassets shall include the purchaseprice, relevanttaxesandothernecessary expendituresdirectlyattributable to intangibleassets for the expected purpose.
The big news story of the day was Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) reporting that it had to write down a majority ofintangibleassets resulting from the purchaseof Autonomy, a software provider.