Nous assistons, depuis quelques années, à une envolée des prix d'acquisition payés dans le cadre des regroupements d'entreprises. Cette tendance s'explique en grande partie par la place prépondérante occupée par les éléments incorporels chez les entités cibles. La présente recherche...

Our study focused on the practices of French groups concerning the accounting treatment of intangibles acquired in business combinations. Particularly, we tested the value relevance of the accounting measures of such intangibles for the French stock market (a sample of 30 French firms during the...

The cost of equity capital is traditionally considered as an increasing function of the estimation risk – the risk of error regarding the distribution of a firm’s future cash flows (FCF). Under international GAAPs, IAS 36 “Impairment of assets” -based information disclosure conveys...

Information risk – the uncertainty regarding the parameters of the distribution of firms’ future cash flows – generates valuation errors and is costly to investors who require a higher return to compensate for greater information risk. We argue that, on average, through their...