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The typical English financial manager attaches vastly more importance than does the typical American financial manager, to presenting a balance sheet that makes an impression of stability and conservatism. Doubtless there is much to be said on both sides. It is enough here merely to call attention to the variation in practice. It is sometimes thought to be desirable by the directors of a corporation to have the corporation purchase some of its own outstanding stock, which is, in effect, a method of reducing its capitalization. The general rule of the law, which applies with modifications in almost all jurisdictions, is to the effect that a corporation may purchase its own shares only out of surplus. It cannot, in other words, carry the purchase of its own shares so far as to produce a deficit which might be injurious to creditors. Valuation of Good-will The law assumes that the assets of a corporation are valued at cost and that, after the deduction of liabilities, the remaining equity in the assets is represented by capital stock. The truth of the case is, as we have seen, that capitalization at least for the companies with marketable securities is determined on the basis of earning power, and that the book valuation of a company's assets is then adjusted to the capitalization. This makes the valuation of assets for accounting purposes, in part at least, an arbitrary process. Whenever it is not thought desirable to place a purely arbitrary value upon tangible assets, or whenever the capitalization is so large that any arbitrary value within reason will still leave a gap, then we have "Patents," "Copyrights," "Organization," "Good-will," or some other intangible asset entered upon the books and appearing in the balance sheet at a valuation sufficient to offset the nominal value of outstanding capital stock....