Nedskrivningsprövning av goodwill
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Graphic profiles are a part of companies? brand expressions. The graphical values reflect the brand values the business wants to convey. They consist of different graphic elements such as logo, company sign, colour schemes, templates, rules, fonts, pictograms, formats and references to how different graphic elements should look, for example, business cards, signs and materials for websites. This thesis aims to examine why firms choose to replace their graphic profiles by studying their underlying motivations. To investigate this, four companies have been studied along with two agencies working with strategic brand issues and developing graphic profiles. The result shows that the primary aims are to; unite the company, functionality, innovation and modernization, organizational change, differentiation, and emotional factors. These aims are taken into account against the costs companies can fund and therefore generates various extensive added values. The study also shows that the companies generate positive effects regarding internal values by changing their graphic profile. The companies do not consider these values a motivation even though it is one of the biggest values that the change generates.