I investigate whether firms subject to SFAS No. 86 Accounting for the Costs of Computer Software provide information regarding future benefits of these software development (SD) expenditures. Numerous comment letters from the 1985 Exposure Draft indicate analysts feel that given the leeway to...

We test whether an impending change in the accounting for goodwill mitigates bias in the initial values that acquirers assign to intangible assets. Results of two experiments with experienced professional participants suggest that the new accounting alters, but does not eliminate, bias in...

This work considered the economic security of an enterprise with regard to the valuation of intangible assets according to the International Valuation Standards (IVS). This study is essential due to a growing number of companies with intangible assets (trademarks, patents, know-how, etc.) as...

Using the valuation methods proposed by, we value the internally generated intangible assets of the listed companies in DS30 index by capitalizing relevant portions of R&D, advertising and training expenses. After adjusting for the changes in book value and earnings, we show that companies...

The continued growth of intangible investments is the hallmark of developed economies, initiating significant changes in the business models, strategies and performance of business enterprises. Accounting standard‐setters, however, by and large, are oblivious to this world‐wide development....

We assess the value of IT-related intangible assets and then use data on business practices and management capabilities to understand how this value is distributed across firms. Using a panel of 127 firms over the period 2003-2006, we replicate and extend the Brynjolfsson, Hitt and Yang (2002)...

Already in the early 1990s, the importance of intangible resources and the difficulty of accounting for them were raised and has grown steadily ever since. Today, intangible assets (IA) such as employee skills, knowledge, trade secrets software, copyrights and patents, customer and supplier...