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Intangible Assets: Current Requirements, Social Statements, Integrated Reporting, and New Models

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Value Creation, Reporting, and Signaling for Human Capital and Human Assets

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The concept of intangibles is fundamental in current economies. Their evaluation and the knowledge of their importance by third parties are linked to the issues of recognition and measurement of these assets. Despite the growing importance of intangibles to reach and maintain a competitive advantage in a complex environment, current financial statements do not provide adequate disclosure of some intangibles, especially for those that are not characterized by “identifiability” or “control.” Nakamura (2001) shows that the estimates of the corporate sector’s investment in intangible assets in the US market, calculated in three different ways, converge around 1 trillion dollars a year. Moreover, an important part of them are not recognized because they do not reflect current recognition requirements defined in US GAAP.

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Pucci, S., Cenci, M., Tutino, M., Luly, R. (2014). Intangible Assets: Current Requirements, Social Statements, Integrated Reporting, and New Models. In: Russ, M. (eds) Value Creation, Reporting, and Signaling for Human Capital and Human Assets. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137472069_7

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