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Creating Value Through Corporate Trade Under IFRS

The concept that business strategies should be judged by the economic value they create is commonly accepted in the business community. Companies often, in the ordinary course of business, produce some amount of excess inventory, capital goods or r ...

Active Australia Announces Acquisition Of Paykel Media Agency

Active International, Australia’s largest independent corporate trade and financial solution business, today announces the acquisition of Paykel Media – itself, a l ...

Complex Transactions

An Interview with Dennis Quinn, Executive Vice President, Chief Media and Digital Enterprise Officer, Active International EDITORS’ NOTE Dennis Quinn h ...

Testimonials

Perrigo

“Active International works with Perrigo since 2015 providing us with solutions for the management of our unsold inventories. On the one hand, Active has allowed us to restore the value of our inventories in books by paying us for them up to 3 time ...

JML

Active's UK office began working with JML in 2003; during our successful partnership, we have processed 15 large stock deals enabling JML to purchase over £30m of media and business services such as corporate travel using their excess stock. Watc ...

Bloom & Wild

About Bloom & Wild London-based Bloom & Wild is one of the largest and fastest-growing European online flower delivery and gifting platforms. B&W recently acquired Dutch rival Bloomon to become the largest operator in the region's £22 ...

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Real people, real results: Real Life Media Active International, JOY and WOM Network unveil new partnership

Three of Australia’s leading independent marketing services companies – corporate trade business Active International, creative agency JOY Investment Partners and digital publishers WOM Network – have joined forces to create Real Life Media, a ...

Cameron Swan Joins Active International UK – Sarah Keith Named Group Managing Director, Active International Australia and Involved Media

Active International today announced the appointment of Cameron Swan as managing director of Active International UK. Cameron will relocate from Sydney, where he is Group Managing Director of Active Inte ...

Introducing Active’s new Vice President of Programmatic

Active International is pleased to announce the appointment of Dom Blacklock to the position of Vice President Programmatic. Dom will be responsible for guiding our ...

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Creating Value Through Corporate Trade

Challenge: A Telecommunications Company had excess inventory in the form of end of life phones. Solution: Active provided payment at full market value in two ways: t ...

Creating Value Through Corporate Trade Under IFRS

Corporate trade is a strategy to create value typically in the form of cash savings or incremental business. Amazingly, while corporate trade creates substantial economic benefits, it is often misunderstood and consequently overlooked. ...

FASB Accounting Standards Codification

In reporting to the exchange of a nonmonetary asset for barter credits, it shall be presumed that the fair value of the nonmonetary asset exchanged is more clearly evident than the fair value of the barter credits received and that the barter credits ...

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