Whether fair value accounting should be used in financial reporting has been the subject of debate for many years. A key dimension to this debate is whether fair value earnings can provide information to financial statement users that is helpful in making their economic decisions. A criticism of...

The aim of this paper is to introduce a statistical procedure to value a brand by means of which firms may be able to determine the level of implicit royalty that they would charge for the use of their brand, applying multivariate techniques from market references. The study has been based on a...

The paper provides a research summary on the relation between the levels of valuation multiples and eight criteria of company size. The criteria comprised market capitalization, enterprise value, operating revenues, EBITDA, EBIT, net profit, sum of total assets, and number of employees. Using...