We study the association of Web-based non-financial disclosure and a firm's cost of finance within an international context (North America and continental Europe). We examine voluntary Web placement of non-financial disclosures using an information index covering a firm's value creation process....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine empirically the impact of web‐based intellectual capital (IC) reporting on firm's value and its cost of finance. Design/methodology/approach – A content‐analysis of corporate web sites is conducted from four continental European countries...