This paper aims to identify the level of business model voluntary disclosure adopted by three manufacturing companies within Initial Public Offering (IPO) prospectus in order to investigate whether any differences in the level of disclosure may depend on differences among their business models...

Italian Abstract: A partire dai primi anni ottanta, i principali paesi di cultura anglosassone sono stati teatro di profondi ed innovativi processi di riforma del settore pubblico che, con modalità e grado di intensità differenti, hanno successivamente interessato anche la stragrande...

Italian Abstract: Tradizionalmente, la letteratura anglosassone associa il brusco, quanto inaspettato, declino del mercato dei capitali americano degli anni '70 e la conseguente attività di proliferazione dei principi contabili all'origine di una complessa problematica tipica delle small...

The Economic Value Added formally translates the theoretical notion of excess profit (also known as residual income). Its use is so firmly entrenched in applied corporate finance and management accounting that its name is often used as a noun for denoting the concept of excess profit itself....

In capital budgeting, the internal rate of return (IRR) criterion and the net present value (NPV) criterion are considered incompatible in several cases. A longstanding debate developed in past years about the reliability of either method is still an issue of investigation (see, for example,...