The objective of the present paper is to study the accounting treatment of goodwill and practices concerning this intangible asset before the application of new international accounting standards. The empirical study is based on the analysis of 33 annual reports of French top companies listed on...

From 2005, European listed firms and many more around the world are required to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The introduction of a uniform accounting system is expected to ensure greater comparability and transparency of financial reporting around the world. Over...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review and synthesise current knowledge on the importance of intellectual capital (IC) information to the capital market.Design/methodology/approach – The paper is by way of literature review. It reviews the empirical research literature from...

By analysing the organsiation's management challenges and activities from an IC perspective, the research study made visible the organisation's invisible sources of value creation and identified inconsistencies in the enactment of knowledge resources. The ICVC framework proved particularly...

This study is motivated by a desire to extend the literature into investigations of crossborder comparisons of Intellectual Capital Disclosure practices. It is hoped that identifying differences in types of reporting and variations in reporting frequency will lead to a greater understanding of...

Intellectual Capital Reporting (ICR) is located high on the agenda of government, concerned with the establishment of guidelines and positioning their nation-states as 'knowledgeeconomies' on the global landscape. Voluntary guidelines have been established in certain jurisdictions while others...

This paper reports the results of an empirical investigation into the intellectual capital reporting (ICR) practices of UK companies in four distinct sectors. It differs from prior ICR studies in that it analyses a wide range of external corporate reporting media for their IC content. It finds...

The aim and purpose of this paper is to present the authors‟ viewpoints regarding three misguided beliefs concerning Intellectual Capital (IC); (i) IC definition, (ii) IC categorization and (iii) IC reporting framework. More specifically, due to the fact that general agreement on these aspects...

The national intellectual capital of Indonesia was the worst among five major Southeast Asian countries (Lin, Edvinsson, Chen, & Beding, 2014). To overcome this issue, President Joko Widodo provides his direction and commitment in the development of human capital in Indonesia (World Economic...

The purpose of this study is to examine the intellectual capital disclosure (hereafter: ICD) among the Greek listed companies and compare this level of disclosure among companies of different sector and capitalisation. For this reason, a content analysis of 49 companies' annual reports was...