Antunes Brás, Filomena; Lima Rodrigues, Lúcia - In: Journal of Human Resource Costing & Accounting 11 (2007) 3, pp. 229-250
Purpose – This paper aims to analyse two competing approaches to accounting for a firm's investment in staff …‐training activities: the accounting and labour economics approach (which argues that no asset should be recognized from training activity …: one, where no asset (value) is generated; and the other, where the accounting definition of an asset, requiring value …