Die Wertorientierung der Unternehmensführung erfordert, dass die zentrale Steuerungskennzahlen explizit die Kosten des Eigenkapitals berücksichtigen. Der EVA trägt dieser Aufforderung Rechnung, indem er als Differenz zwischen dem betrieblichen Ergebnis nach Steuern und den Kapitalkosten auf...

Advocates of fair value accounting believe that fair valuesprovide more relevant measures of assets, liabilities, andearnings than do historical costs. These advocates assertthat fair value accounting better reflects underlying economicvalues. The advantages of this method—and thecorresponding...

Using 13F position valuations, we show that hedge fund advisors intentionallymismark their stock positions. We document manipulation even after eliminatingissues inherent in the pricing of illiquid securities. The documented mismarking isrelated to hedge fund incentives. Mismarking is more...

It has been found in the literature that the overnight Eurodollar rate and the effective Fedfunds rate exhibit similar calendar-day effects caused by the Federal reserve regulationsand accounting conventions and characteristics of the Fed funds market. However, it wasnot documented whether the...

Die Distribution digitaler Produkte nimmt stetig zu. Die technischen Möglichkeiten zu deren Distributionkönnen grundsätzlich in zentralisierte und dezentralisierte Technologien unterteilt werden. Im Zusammenhangmit zentralisierten Technologien ist Streaming Media zu nennen, welches...

Intangible assets as goodwill, licenses, research and development or customer relations become in high technology and service orientated economies more and more important. But comparing the book values of listed companies and their market capitalization the financial reports seems to fail the...

This study extends the stream of research that is concerned with the influence of portfolio interrelationships on firm performance by employing a sample of European companies. The findings of this study confirm a positive relationship between resource-based relatedness as measured by Robins and...

Der Autor untersucht die Rolle immaterieller Wirtschaftsgüter in den Konzernjahresabschlüssen nach IAS (International Accounting Standard) von deutschen Versicherungsunternehmen. Fünf der großen deutschen Versicherungskonzerne legen ihre Bilanzen nach IAS vor.