This article analyzes the extent to which accounting standards adequately re ects the value of intangible assets as well as its usefulness for financial agents in the process of buying and selling companies. Based on a sample that includes price of private transactions and listed companies from...

International Accounting Standard 40 (IAS 40 - Investment properties) offers an ideal setting for research on accounting choice as it represents a paradigmatic case choosing between the fair value and the historical cost as the measurement criteria. In this paper, we take the opportunity of this...

International Accounting Standard 40 (IAS 40 - Investment properties) offers an ideal setting for research on accounting choice as it represents a paradigmatic case choosing between the fair value and the historical cost as the measurement criteria. In this paper, we take the opportunity of this...

This article analyzes the extent to which accounting standards adequately re ects the value of intangible assets as well as its usefulness for financial agents in the process of buying and selling companies. Based on a sample that includes price of private transactions and listed companies from...

Intangible resources management is a relevant issue in Marketing and Management perspectives because these resources provide companies with competitive advantages (Caves, 1996; Srivastava, Fahey and Christensen, 2001). Intangible resources management is considered a strategic key question in...

The complexity and turbulence of the current business environment determines that the way of acquiring sustainable competitive advantages is ever more strongly associated with possession of intangible elements, and not focused as before on tangible assets. Faced with this panorama accounting...