Purpose This study is an analysis that aims to understand the rationale behind the concept of value creation contained in the integrated reporting (IR) framework. As such, the authors examined the quality of the disclosures made in integrated reports by measuring the level to which the six...

Many insurers disclose Embedded Value reports, a 'capital market-consistent' valuation framework for their life insurance business, to provide investors with additional information. We examine the incremental and relative information content of Embedded Value components in comparison to the...

Alexander Bantz untersucht, ob Informationen der IFRS-Finanzberichterstattung für die Gestaltung wertorientierter Kennzahlen bei einer Konvergenz im Allgemeinen und im Speziellen bei Fair Value-Bilanzierung geeignet sind. Er zeigt Möglichkeiten und Grenzen Fair Value-basierter wertorientierter...

I analyze Embedded Value (EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated reporting. Under EV accounting the present value of future cash flows...

Purpose Enhanced business reporting (EBR) seeks to address the information needs of investors when making company valuations for investment decisions. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relevance for market valuation of EBR disclosures that are directly related to firm valuation...

Following IAS/IFRS, the current accounting regime for European life insurance companies is oriented towards delaying the recognition and distribution of profit, and is still largely rooted in requirements for statutory solvency reporting. But, since the late 1980s, some insurers and banks with...

Serafeim [2011] examines the determinants and economic consequences of embedded value (EV) reporting, a voluntary disclosure arrangement in the life insurance industry. He finds substantial reductions in bid-ask spreads for EV reporting firms, and links the occurrence of this disclosure practice...

Insgesamt zeigt sich, dass wertorientierte Kennzahlen und Managementinstrumente nur relativ selten Anwendung in der mittelständischen Unternehmensführung finden. Im Rahmen der Zielformulierung wird vor allem auf eher traditionelle Kennzahlen wie den Gewinn oder den Umsatz beziehungsweise den...

In science as well as in practice customer relationships are among the most significant drivers of a company’s success and are considered one of the most important intangible assets of a company. Communicating this valuable information to the capital market requires a strong focus on the...

Robert Ebner analysiert die Charakteristika mittelständischer Bekleidungseinzelhändler und leitet deren spezielle Anforderungen an ein Handelscontrolling ab, da die existierenden Controlling-Konzeptionen in der Praxis kaum Anwendung finden. Nach einer Überprüfung der gängigen...

Der Beitrag untersucht die Kommunikation von Innovationskompetenzen deutscher Unternehmen: Im Mittelpunkt der Ausfuehrungen steht die uebereinstimmung von faktischer Innovationskompetenz mit der externen Berichterstattung des Unternehmens ueber seine Innovationen und seinen Innovationserfolg. Im...

The purpose of this book is to offer a more systematic and structured treatment of the research on accounting based valuation, with a primary focus on recent theoretical developments and the resulting empirical analyses that recognize the role of accounting information in making managerial...

Chapter 1 Value Concept and Accounting Measures of Value Generation: The Residual Income Model -- Chapter 2 Mapping Accounting Data to Value via Linear Information Dynamics: the Early Approach -- Chapter 3 Capital Following Profitability: Why the Residual Income Dynamic is Nonlinear -- Chapter 4...

Mit dem vorliegenden Buch erhalten Studierende eine kritische Einführung in die Chancen und Grenzen des wertschöpfungsorientierten Managements von Unternehmen. So gewinnen sie ein ganzheitliches Bild einer wertorientierten Unternehmungsführung. Praktiker sollen für ihre eigene...

Serafeim [2011] examines the determinants and economic consequences of embedded value (EV) reporting, a voluntary disclosure arrangement in the life insurance industry. He finds substantial reductions in bid-ask spreads for EV reporting firms, and links the occurrence of this disclosure practice...

We analyze firms’ voluntary disclosure of intellectual capital in a setting of presentations to analysts and investors. Firms use presentations to analysts and investors as an additional means of reporting. Due to lesser restrictions of this kind of reporting and also due to the private...