Net Income to Company (Cont. Ops) Growth

Metrics similar to Net Income to Company (Cont. Ops) Growth in the growth category include:

• Unfunded Proj. Benefit Obligation, Debt Equivalent - This item represents the pre-tax debt equivalent of unfunded pension plans.
• Deferred Domestic Taxes - This item represents the deferred amount of domestic taxes, payable by the company to its home country. For a US Company, taxes deferred to the U.S. government will be deferred domestic taxes. For a non-U.S. company, taxes deferred to its own country's government will be considered as deferred domestic taxes.
• Other Intangibles - This item represents the net values of those assets (i.e. gross intangibles less accumulated amortization), which provide future economic benefit to the enterprise but have no physical form. It also includes the combined net amount of "Goodwill and Intangibles" (i.e. gross goodwill and intangibles as reduced by the accumulated amortization), where it is not possible to separately identify net goodwill and net intangibles.
• Goodwill - This item represents the excess of purchase price paid over the fair market value of net assets acquired, net of any write downs for impairment in value. Goodwill is now no longer amortized over an estimated useful life as was being done earlier (prior to SFAS 142). Instead the balance of goodwill has to be assessed at every reporting period and a write down for impairment has to be recognized when determined. The assessment for impairment is done by applying a fair value based test.