The paper uses a range of primary-source empirical evidence to address the question: ‘why is it to hard to value intangible assets?’ The setting is venture capital investment in high technology companies. While the investors are risk specialists and financial experts, the entrepreneurs are...

Two of the most salient issues in research about intangibles and intellectual capital are the lack of a common terminology, and the lack of development of adequate measurement tools for the constructs related to intangibles. The aim of that paper is twofold: first, establishing a set of...

The aim of this paper is to expose an alternative form of valuation of intangible assets according to their growing importance in the past years in comparison with physical goods. Specifically, we intend to give a possibility of valuation of intangible goods using Fuzzy Mathematics, and we...

Determining the value of a company is a process very important and controversial at the same time process. Knowing the value of a firm is indispensable in case of sale, merger, but not only; it is also useful to identify sources of value creation. The val

Prior economics literature suggests that managers of distressed firms have incentives to opportunistically misrepresent performance in debt renegotiation because creditors suffer from an asymmetric information problem. This paper examines the assets write-off behaviour of Malaysian firms during...

This study contributes to the literature on market signalling and resource-based view by examining the relationship between intangible assets, value, value outperformance and its sustainability within a sample of public Japanese firms. Results suggest that intangibles are positively related to...

Purpose – This paper aims to use a grounded theory approach to reveal that corporate private disclosure content has structure and this is critical in making “invisible” intangibles in corporate value creation visible to capital market participants. Design/methodology/approach – A...

The current accounting treatment of intangible assets is far from being generally accepted and defined in the knowledge-based economy. The recognition and evaluation of internally generated trademarks is an unsolved aspect of accounting regulations in the context of a transnationalization...

This paper models the investment behaviour of a multi-asset firm with market power that accumulates valuable intangible assets to complement the IT capital. The investment model is estimated using data from Spanish banks on assets of different nature: material (branches, financial), immaterial...

This paper analyzes the seven valuation methods for unlisted direct investment equity included in the recently adopted IMF Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Sixth Edition (BPM6). Based on publicly available Danish data, we test the three methods that are generally...