Current and popular methods to value a corporate brand, although traditionally deemed as being adequate or “passable” for financial reporting purposes (hint: relief-from-royalty method to value trademarks), are far less than sufficient when it comes to measuring the full value of this intangible asset.
The Residual Contribution Method for valuing corporate brands is designed to minimize the high level of irrelevance, subjectivity, as well as lack of practicality that are inherent in the existing population of models, by systematically exploring the relation between a business enterprise, its underlying key intangible assets, goodwill, and ultimately, corporate brand value.
The valuation of a corporate brand, which can be viewed in many cases as one of the most valuable assets held by a corporation, is a function of thoroughly identifying, isolating, and quantifying the economic value of that complex array of intangible asset forces that make up a business enterprise.