The Importance of Intangible Assets

Executive summary Recently, importance of intangible assets for a reporting entity has been increasing continuously. This report will discuss intangible assets with indefinite or infinite useful life and research and development expenditure in SEEK Ltd annual report 2014. This report will state the background of SEEK Ltd and the increasing importance of intangible assets. Furthermore, the disclosure of intangible assets and research and development expenditure will be revealed. Moreover, this report

analysis does not change the coefficients significantly (column 3); we continue to observe a significant impact of different intangible assets on the market value of firms. The regression results in column (4) of Table 2 indicate that R&D intensity displays diminishing returns: as firms get older, they get less value out of their R&D investments. The interaction term (RDS/Assets * Age) is negative and significant at the 5% significance level. The addition of this interaction term improves the fit of

paid up capital and or sale of 250 million rupees annually. As it is the major sector of the economy, a lot of work is needed to make this sector more profitable and attractive for foreign investment. Being the student of research and knowing the importance of this sector, my research also revolves around knowledge management and SME’s. The data will be collected from various SME’s located in different cities. Similarly multinational corporations (MNC’s) are also working in Pakistan in various fields

The economic properties of intangible assets and their consequences 6 1.2.1 The main economic features of intangibles 6 1.2.2 Intangible assets and resource allocation 7 2. The OECD’s approach to taxing digital activities 9 2.1. The redefinition of the permanent establishment concept 9 2.2. The transfer pricing aspects of intangible assets 12 2.2.1 The limits of the arm’s length principle 12 2.2.2 The proposed revision of the transfer pricing regime for intangibles 13 2.2.3 Risks and capital associated

financial position. Influenced by its economic resources, net assets, financial structure and capacity to adapt to changes, so it is becoming increasingly clear that balance statements play a significant role in defining the growth of a company, as the search for adding more value always leads to calculating and recognizing such assets. Increased business competition and adoption of new information technologies increase its importance since it is become the major driver of corporate value (Leo &

Intangible Assets as a Source of Competitive Advantage Look No Further Managing Intangibles seems to be a smart idea. But to bet on it, one has to create a whole new organization. The concept of intangibles is not new, but across the globe, companies are slowly coming to grips with it. tury back physical, tangible assets created wealth; today, it’s intangible assets that are creating wealth. It’s a concept that packs a lot of punch but has no form as such. It questions capitalism for its emphasis

Fair Value Accounting and Intangible Assets The considerable debate on the advantages and disadvantages of moving towards a full mark to market accounting system for financial institutions has been triggered by the move of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to make changes in this direction as part of an attempt to globalize accounting standards. Both fair value accounting and historical cost accounting have their advantages

as intangibles have become one of the crucial drivers for the economic performances of most companies. However measuring the value of an intangible asset with accuracy and treating it correctly for the preparation of financial statements has been found to be quite difficult. In fact, one of the most contested areas of accounting lies with the treatment of internally generated intangibles assets – Research and Development. In simple words, the basic difference between tangibles and intangibles is

accounting on shareholders’ value in oil and gas companies in Nigeria. This is with a view to providing information on how costs incurred on personnel could be identified, measured and disclosed on the statement of financial position of companies as an asset which is the key factor to the successful operation in oil and gas industry. The study made use of secondary data collected for the period 2004 – 2016. The entire oil and gas companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) were selected for the

A REPORT ON Case Study on Measuring Intangible Assets – Indian Experience - 1 - BEYOND BALANCE SHEETS… Measuring Intangible assets- an Indian case study “Just as you can 't measure what you can 't describe, you can 't manage what you can 't measure...” While many companies have strived to differentiate their annual reports and make them informative, attractive and easy to read, most still take a rear-view-mirror approach, focusing almost exclusively on history and analyses of past performance