Das Wachstum multinationaler Unternehmen (MNU) wird zunehmend durch Investitionen von Dienstleistungsunternehmen vorangetrieben. Die Produktion von Dienstleistungen unterscheidet sich allerdings in mehreren Aspekten von der Herstellung klassischer Industriegüter. Eine zentrale Eigenschaft ist...

IAS 36 schreibt vor, wann und wie Wertminderungen von Vermögenswerten in IFRS-Abschlüssen zu berücksichtigen sind, wobei in den meisten Fällen der value in use als Korrekturwertmaßstab zum Einsatz gelangt und auf Bewertungseinheiten abgestellt wird. In der vorliegenden Dissertation wird die...

This paper investigates the relationship between annual report disclosure, market liquidity, and capital cost for firms registered on the Deutsche Börse. Disclosure is comprehensively measured using the innovative Artificial Intelligence Measurement of Disclosure (AIMD). Results show that...

This paper describes a simple way to integrate the debt tax shield into an accounting-based valuation model. The market value of equity is determined by forecasting residual operating income, which is calculated by charging operating income for the operating assets at a required return that...

Black Economic Empowerment is one of the South African government'sinitiatives to bring parity to past economic imbalances. One of the aspects ofthis empowerment has been through transferring of equity ownership toempowerment groups in order to increase black ownership and control. A keyquestion...

In a dividend imputation tax system, equity investors have three potential sources of return: dividends, capital gains and franking (tax) credits. However, the standard procedures for estimating the market risk premium (MRP) for use in the capital asset pricing model, ignore the value of...

The objective of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between price regulation and investment. More specifically, this thesis aims to answer the following two questions: (i) Does price regulation distort the firm’s decisions of when and whether to invest? and (ii) Does price...

The purpose of this research is to know the financial performance of PT.Unilever Indonesia, Tbk which is measured by Economic Value Added (EVA).Variable which is needed to compute The EVA are Net Profit After Tax (NOPAT),Cost of Capital (CoC), and Economic Value Added (EVA). EVA concept...

I examine the relation between a corporate commitment to increased disclosure and measures of liquidity, information asymmetry, and cost of equity capital. Relative to prior research on voluntary disclosure, I use a composite, ex ante measure of commitment based in social psychology and measure...