Uppsatsen behandlar personalekonomi och huruvida mänskliga resurser ska behandlas som en tillgång för organisationer eller inte och fokus ligger på ideella idrottsorganisationer. I teori och empiri påvisas att människan är en viktig resurs för en organisation. Fokus i uppsatsen ligger i att applicera beräkningen av värdet av personalen som en tillgång på ideella idrottsorganisationer, där personalen består till stor del av volontärer. Trots att det rör sig om donerad arbetskraft existerar ändå kostnader kring volontärer, vilket empirin bevisar. Det tydliggörs både av volontärer samt de som ansvarar för volontärer att viss ersättning som exempelvis mat och kläder förväntas, vilka är betydande kostnader att kalkylera. Det framkommer även att välmående och den sociala miljön kring eventet är av betydande vikt för ett fortsatt engagemang samt en positiv och motiverande miljö. / The essay deals with human resources and whether or not they should be treated as an asset or not for organisations and it focuses primarily on nonprofit sport organisations. Theory and empirics show that humans are an important asset in an organisation. The essay focuses on applicating the measurement of the value of personnel as an asset to nonprofit sport organisations, where the volunteers make up for a big part of the staff. In spite of it being donated workforce there are costs to consider in the usage of volunteers, which is proved in the empirics of the essay. It is made clear both by volunteers and people responsible for volunteers that some compensation, in the form of food and clothes for example, is expected by volunteers and these are significant cost to account for. Well-being and the social environment in events are shown to be of significance regarding a continued commitment from the volunteers and also to maintain a positive and motivating environment.

There are several major research papers on accounting choice that intends to explain and analyze how the intangible assets should be classified. However, there are not many theses or major research papers on football clubs and the accounting choice they make when it comes to the accounting of one of their most important assets, their players. This thesis intends to explain and analyze why Swedish football clubs makes the accounting choice that they make. Furthermore, the intentions are to explain the consequences of these choices and find out if that affects the football clubs vision of true and fair view. The methods that will be used for this study is an examination of the financial documents along with interviews. One of the theories in the study is the institutional theory, which explains that organizations in the same industry tend to become more alike. The study has shown that Swedish football clubs are given a choice, to present the player contracts on the balance sheet or as an expense in the income statement. The majority of the clubs presented the player contracts in the balance sheet. The main reason for that is said to be that the costs can be spread over several years, which means it will be easier to meet the financial requirements from the Swedish Football Association.

Bakgrund och problem: Dagens företag består allt mer av immateriella tillgångar då samhället vi lever i har blivit allt mer högteknologiskt och kunskapsintensivt. När småföretag vill expandera vänder de sig vanligtvis till banker för att ansöka om krediter. Det finns dock en stor kritik mot hur banker hanterar utlåning till småföretag. Överlag är det väldigt svårt för småföretag att bli beviljade krediter hos banker, speciellt för de småföretag som har en hög andel immateriella tillgångar. Vissa forskare menar även att det finns skillnader i hur immateriella tillgångar bedöms vid kreditbeslut. Vi vill därför undersöka följande: Hur bedömer banker immateriella tillgångar vid kreditbedömningar av småföretag? Hur skiljer sig kreditgivarnas syn på de immateriella tillgångarna? Syfte: Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur banker bedömer immateriella tillgångar vid kreditbedömningar av småföretag och om det finns några skillnader i kreditgivarnas bedömning. Vidare är syftet att studien ska bidra till en ökad förståelse kring vilken betydelse immateriella tillgångar har när banker fattar ett kreditbeslut. Studiens syfte är inte att generalisera och dra slutsatser kring hur alla banker bedömer immateriella tillgångar vid en kreditbedömningsprocess. Metod: Uppsatsen är skriven utifrån en kvalitativ ansats då målet med vår studie är att bidra till en ökad förståelse kring vilken betydelse immateriella tillgångar har när banker fattar ett kreditbeslut men även för att belysa hur osäkerheten med immateriella tillgångar behandlas ur bankernas situation. Kreditgivarnas personliga åsikter har en stor betydelse i vår studie, därför har vi också valt att använda en kvalitativ metod då den bidrar till att respondenternas personliga åsikter och reflektioner kan lyftas fram vilket är nödvändigt för att få en djupare förståelse. Slutsats: Vår studie visar att bankerna vid kreditbedömning av småföretag bedömer immateriella tillgångar på ungefär liknande sätt. Det fanns inga stora skillnader i själva bedömningen av de immateriella tillgångarna. Däremot skiljer sig kreditgivarnas syn på immateriella tillgångar. Trots att samtliga respondenter bedömde tillgångarna i princip på samma sätt kan vi se att det finns skillnader. Det är överlag väldigt svårt för småföretag med en hög andel immateriella tillgångar att bli beviljade krediter men det vi har kommit fram till i den här studien är att det faktiskt finns faktorer som kan påverka ett kreditbeslut och därmed också underlätta för dessa företag att bli beviljade krediter. / Background and problem: Today's businesses consist increasingly of intangible assets because the society we live in has become increasingly high-tech and knowledge-intensive. When small businesses are looking to expand, they usually turn to banks to apply for loans. However, there is a great criticism of how banks handle loans to small businesses. Overall, it is very difficult for small businesses to get credits granted by banks, especially for those small businesses that have a high percentage of intangible assets. Some researchers also believe that there are differences in how intangible assets are assessed on credit decisions. We therefore wish to examine: How do banks assess intangible assets on credit rating of small business? How lenders view differs on intangibles? Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine how banks assess intangible assets in the credit assessment of SMEs and whether there are any differences in lenders' assessment. An additional purpose of the study is to contribute to an increased understanding of the importance of intangible assets when banks make credit decisions. The study's purpose is not to generalize and draw conclusions about how all banks assesses intangible assets on a credit assessment process. Method: The essay is written from a qualitative approach because the goal of our study is to contribute to an increased understanding of the importance of intangible assets when banks make credit decisions but also to illustrate how the uncertainty of intangibles is treated from the banks' situation. The lenders ' personal opinions are of great importance in our study, therefore, we have also chosen to use a qualitative approach as it helps to highlight the respondents' personal opinions and reflections which are necessary to get a deeper understanding. Conclusion: Our study shows that creditors assess intangible assets similarly. There were no significant differences in the actual assessment of the intangible assets. However lenders view of intangible assets differs. Although all respondents assessed the assets in basically the same way, we can see that there are differences. Overall it is very difficult for small companies with a high proportion of intangible assets to be granted credits but that we have arrived to the conclusion that there are indeed factors that can affect a credit decision and therefore make it easier for these companies to be granted credits.

The game of football has transformed from just being a game into a huge economic market attracting investors from all over the world. As clubs spend more and more money on player acquisitions, player registrations (considered intangible assets) now represent a significant part of the total assets of major European football clubs. Due to this, treatment of player registrations has become a significant accounting issue. The purpose is to analyze and compare from the perspective of an investor, how a sample of European football clubs account and disclose values of player registrations. The purpose aim to answer the questions how and what kind of information each club discloses on their financial statements. Also, are current accounting procedures and disclosure harmonized, and do they present a true and fair view of top European clubs financial status. A descriptive case study was the most appropriate as it aims to answer the questions “how” and “why”. A sample selection filter was set in the beginning of the process together with the research questions. The final sample was set to be: Arsenal FC, Manchester United, Borussia Dortmund, Juventus FC and FC Porto. The purpose of the selection filter was to get a study both fair on economical as well as competitive sports level. Primary data consist of information from annual financial reports, and in order to enhance validity, interviews with professionals have been conducted and used.  Findings show similarities as well as differences in disclosure and treatment of football player registrations. All clubs meet the minimum requirements from IAS 38 and UEFA. However, how and what kind of information each clubs disclose differ substantially and due to lack of valuation models and the possibility to capitalize home-grown players and free agents, the value of player registrations is not presented in a true and fair view.

Doctor of Philosophy(PhD), / The confluence of a number of marketplace phenomena has provided the impetus for the selection and conduct of this research. The first is the so called value relevance of intangibles in determining share market performance of publicly listed companies. The growing gap between market and book values has been proposed as an indication of the impact of intangibles on share price values. A second related phenomenon is the increasing reliance on share price appreciation as the principal means for shareholder return as opposed to returns through dividends. This suggests that share prices are becoming an even more critical firm performance measure than traditional accounting-based firm performance measures like return on investment (ROI). A third phenomenon is the rapid growth in marketplace alliances and joint ventures, the number of which has grown rapidly over the past 30 years. The explanation for these phenomena may lie in the concept of corporate social capital (CSC) which, as an intangible asset (IA), has been proposed in several normative studies. CSC has been defined as “the set of resources, tangible or virtual, that accrue to a corporate player through the player’s social relationships, facilitating the attainment of goals” (Leenders & Gabbay, 1999, p3). However, constructs for CSC have only been loosely defined and its impacts on firm performance only minimally empirically tested. This research addresses this gap in the literature. The key aim of this research is to explore the impact of CSC on firm performance. Through the use of CSC as a lens for viewing a firm’s intangibles, several important sub-components of the CSC formulation are exposed. These include a firm’s market centrality (CENT), absorptive capacity (AC), internal capital (INC), human capital (HC) and financial soundness. Therefore, an extended aim for this research is to identify the differential impacts of the CSC sub-components on firm performance. Firm performance was measured as ROI, market-to-book ratios (Tobin’s Q) and total shareholder return (TSR). Overall, the research results indicate that CSC is a significant predictor of firm performance, but falls short of fully explaining the market-to-book value disparity. For this research an innovative computer-supported content analysis (CA) technique was devised to capture a majority of the data required for the empirical research. The use of a commercial news aggregation service, Factiva, and a standard taxonomy of terms for the search, allowed variables for intangible constructs to be derived from a relatively large sample of firms (n=155) from the global information technology services (ITS) sector from 2001 to 2004. Data indices for joint venture or alliance activity, research and development (R&D) activity, HC, INC and external capital (EC) were all developed using this CA approach. The research findings indicated that all things aren’t equal in terms of how the benefits of CSC accrue to different firms in the sector. The research indicated that for larger, more mature firms, financial soundness does not necessarily correlate with improved shareholder return. The inference is that these firms may have reached a plateau in terms of how the market is valuing them. In terms of market centrality, the research indicates that software firms could benefit from building a larger number of alliances and becoming more centrally connected in the marketplace. The reverse is true, however, for larger, more established firms in the non-software sectors. These companies can be penalised for being over-connected, potentially signalling that they are locked into a suite of alliances that will ultimately limit their capacity to innovate and grow. For smaller, potentially loss-making firms, the research indicates that investments in HC are potentially the only investment strategy that could result in improvements in profitability and shareholder return. Investments by such firms in R&D or INC developments are likely to depress shareholder value and therefore should be minimised in favour of HC investments. For larger, more established firms, investment in HC is beneficial for both ROI and TSR. Investments in areas like R&D and INC were found to be only beneficial to those firms who have the financial capacity to afford it. Firms that don’t appear to have the financial resources to support the level of investments they are making in R&D and/or INC were penalised by the market. Overall, the research provides specific insights into the links between firms and their performance, through appropriate investments in CSC. In terms of research practice, this research demonstrates the viability of computer-supported CA. Progress in the development of more intelligent search technologies will provide increasing utility to CA researchers, promising to unlock a vast range of textual source data for researchers that were previously beyond manual CA practices.

Brands can be one of the most valuable assets a company holds. These intangible assets are difficult tovalue and brand valuation is today a debated subject. By register or incorporate a trademark you can getsole right to it. This legal protection is a big part of the brand. The purpose of this essay is to analysethe value of a brand in an economical historical perspective with institutional theory and law andeconomics. I will describe how the legal framework for accounting (Bokföringslagen andårsredovisningslagen) and trademarks (varumärkeslagen) changes from 1960 to 2010. By looking atarticles from Nordiskt immateriellt rättsskydd (NIR) about trademarks and brands from 1960 to 2010 Iwill try to analyse how the view of brand valuation changes during these years. My result is that brandsget more and more popular and the value of a brand is more important in 1990 and forward then it wasin the 1960’s. I also find it hard to decide whether brands should be activated in company’s balancesheet because of the uncertainty and subjectivity in brand valuation.

Problemställning: År 2005 trädde IFRS 3 – Rörelseförvärv, vars syfte är att reglera rapporteringen av rörelseförvärv, ikraft. Denna standard innehöll även nya regler om identifiering av immateriella tillgångar som innebär att sådana i större utsträckning ska särskiljas från goodwill. Trots detta visar tidigare studier att beloppet av goodwill i genomsnitt motsvarar mer än hälften av köpeskillingen. Det var även så att av 92 förvärvande bolag år 2016 saknade 52 specifikationer av identifierade immateriella tillgångar. Dessa två förhållanden leder till informationsasymmetri som får konsekvenser för kapitalmarknaden. Syfte: Syftet är att undersöka branschmässiga skillnader mellan företag i olika branscher på den svenska börsen gällande fördelning av köpeskilling på tillgångsslagen finansiella och materiella, immateriella samt goodwill vid rörelseförvärv. Studien syftar även till att undersöka om det finns skillnader gällande vilka typer av immateriella tillgångar som presenteras. Forskningsfrågor: Skiljer sig branscherna åt gällande fördelningen av köpeskilling på finansiella och materiella tillgångar, immateriella tillgångar och goodwill? Vid rörelseförvärv, vilka olika typer av immateriella tillgångar identifierar företagen i de olika branscherna? Metod: Studien är av kvantitativ karaktär och bygger på en sammanställning av samtliga rörelseförvärv år 2016, genomförd av Björn Gauffin. Det empiriska materialet har statistiskt bearbetats med en variansanalys och sedermera analyserats med hjälp av den teoretiska referensramen. Resultat: I samtliga branscher, förutom i materialbranschen, hänfördes cirka 50 % av köpeskillingen till goodwill. Det finns signifikanta skillnader mellan branschen Material och branscherna Hälsovård, Informationsteknologi och Telekomoperatörer gällande fördelning av köpeskillingen på finansiella och materiella tillgångar, immateriella tillgångar och goodwill. Kundrelaterade immateriella tillgångar var den typ som förekom mest frekvent i samtliga branscher förutom materialbranschen. Kunskapsbidrag: Resultatet överensstämmer med tidigare studier: det går ej att bekräftabranschpraxis gällande fördelning av köpeskillingen vid rörelseförvärv. / Presentation of the problem: In 2005, IFRS 3 – Business Combinations, which aims to regulate the reporting of business combinations, became effective. This standard also included rules on the identification of intangible assets, to be more comprehensively distinguished from goodwill. Nevertheless, previous studies show that the amount of goodwill on average equals more than half of the purchase price. It was also the case that 52, of the 92 acquiring companies in 2016, lacked specifications of identified intangible assets. These two conditions lead to information asymmetry that has consequences for the capital market. Purpose: The purpose is to examine whether there are differences between Swedish listed companies in different industries regarding Purchase Price Allocations. The purpose is also to examine whether there are differences regarding identifications of intangible assets. Research questions: Do the companies in different industries differ regarding allocation of purchase price on financial and tangible assets, intangible assets and goodwill? What different types of intangible assets do companies in different industries identify? Methodology: The study has a quantitative research strategy and is based on a compilation of acquisitions made by listed Swedish companies during 2016. The empirical data have been statistically processed using a variance analysis and subsequently analyzed using the theoretical reference frame. Results: In all industries except one, approximately 50 % of the purchase price was attributed to goodwill. There are only significant differences between a limited number of industries regarding the allocation of the purchase price of financial and tangible assets, intangible assets and goodwill. Customer-related intangible assets were the most frequently occurring in all industries except in the materials industry. Contributions to knowledge: The results of the study are consistent with previous studies: it is not possible to confirm that there are industry practices regarding the allocation of the purchase price for business combinations.

p. 1 - 221 / Submitted by Santiago Fabio (fabio.ssantiago@hotmail.com) on 2013-01-16T19:25:14Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FFFFFF.pdf: 1512749 bytes, checksum: e6c1cee0e02c08e81ce30ecceaf54cf4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-01-16T19:25:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FFFFFF.pdf: 1512749 bytes, checksum: e6c1cee0e02c08e81ce30ecceaf54cf4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / A propriedade intelectual (PI) é um importante instrumento para apropriação do desenvolvimento tecnológico e para o estabelecimento de vantagens competitivas, notadamente para as empresas que empreendem inovações tecnológicas, na economia do conhecimento e da intangibilidade. Neste contexto de acirrada competitividade, emerge a necessidade da gestão estratégica dos ativos intangíveis, que perpassa pelos direitos de PI, mas não se encerra na obtenção de proteção legal a tais direitos. Assim, o objetivo desta dissertação é identificar, por meio de estudo multicaso junto às empresas Braskem S.A. e Plásticos Novel do Nordeste S.A., selecionadas pela sua representatividade no uso do sistema de propriedade industrial, o alinhamento entre as práticas de gestão adotadas e o postulado pela literatura em termos de orientação estratégica para a gestão de propriedade intelectual. Para o alcance de tal objetivo, são revisadas as produções científicas sobre economia do conhecimento e suas influências no mundo corporativo; sobre inovação, seus impactos na competitividade das firmas e seu relacionamento com a temática principal (PI). Em seguida, discute-se propriedade intelectual, contemplando seus aspectos jurídicos e gerencias. A parte empírica do estudo evidencia o perfil das empresas pesquisadas, bem como análises individuais e comparativas com relação às práticas de gestão de PI encontradas. Os resultados obtidos evidenciam que a condução da gestão pelas empresas e as práticas verificadas são dependentes da estratégia empresarial, principalmente em sua vertente tecnológica e/ou de inovação e mercadológica, resguardadas suas características em termos de estruturas de mercado (porte, área de atuação, tipo de produto, mercados, estrutura industrial, estratégias) e outras especificidades. / Salvador

Os negócios evoluem cada vez mais aceleradamente. Essa expansão está representada pela predisposta valoração de ativos intangíveis em função dos ativos físicos. Mas a principal razão para a avaliação dos intangíveis talvez seja a gestão estratégica desses ativos. Tal desafio levou estudiosos a calcular e a mensurar o valor dos diferentes tipos de ativos intangíveis de uma entidade. Com isso, este trabalho passa a questionar-se sobre quais são os principais métodos de avaliação econômica de ativos intangíveis. Para tanto, o objetivo geral é estudar a mensuração dos ativos intangíveis e seu papel no meio empresarial. O estudo do ativo intangível torna-se fundamental dentro do atual cenário econômico mundial, vista a notória diferença entre o patrimônio contábil e o valor de mercado das empresas. A contabilidade vem se aprofundando, nas últimas décadas, no estudo do ativo intangível. Estudiosos, contadores e investidores têm buscado métodos de incorporar e divulgar, nas demonstrações financeiras, os ativos intangíveis das empresas. A pesquisa divide-se em definição de ativos; referencial teórico relativo aos ativos intangíveis e identificação e análise dos principais métodos de mensuração de ativos intangíveis. / Business is developing faster and faster these days. This expansion is represented by the predisposed valuation of intangible assets in terms of physical assets. But the main reason for the evaluation of intangible assets may be the strategic management of these assets. This challenge made scholars calculate and measure the value of different types of intangible assets of a company. Consequently, the objective of this work is to pose the question: what are the principal methods of economic valuation of intangible assets? The overall goal of this work is to study the measurement of intangible assets and their role in business. The study of intangible assets becomes crucial in the current global economic scenario, given the striking difference between the equity accounting and the market value of companies. In recent decades, accounting has been gathering strength in the study of intangible assets. Scholars, accountants and investors have sought methods to incorporate and report in the financial statements, the intangible assets of companies. The research has two aims: to define the assets, the theoretical framework related to the intangible assets and to identify and analyze the main methods of measurement of intangible assets.

Os negócios evoluem cada vez mais aceleradamente. Essa expansão está representada pela predisposta valoração de ativos intangíveis em função dos ativos físicos. Mas a principal razão para a avaliação dos intangíveis talvez seja a gestão estratégica desses ativos. Tal desafio levou estudiosos a calcular e a mensurar o valor dos diferentes tipos de ativos intangíveis de uma entidade. Com isso, este trabalho passa a questionar-se sobre quais são os principais métodos de avaliação econômica de ativos intangíveis. Para tanto, o objetivo geral é estudar a mensuração dos ativos intangíveis e seu papel no meio empresarial. O estudo do ativo intangível torna-se fundamental dentro do atual cenário econômico mundial, vista a notória diferença entre o patrimônio contábil e o valor de mercado das empresas. A contabilidade vem se aprofundando, nas últimas décadas, no estudo do ativo intangível. Estudiosos, contadores e investidores têm buscado métodos de incorporar e divulgar, nas demonstrações financeiras, os ativos intangíveis das empresas. A pesquisa divide-se em definição de ativos; referencial teórico relativo aos ativos intangíveis e identificação e análise dos principais métodos de mensuração de ativos intangíveis. / Business is developing faster and faster these days. This expansion is represented by the predisposed valuation of intangible assets in terms of physical assets. But the main reason for the evaluation of intangible assets may be the strategic management of these assets. This challenge made scholars calculate and measure the value of different types of intangible assets of a company. Consequently, the objective of this work is to pose the question: what are the principal methods of economic valuation of intangible assets? The overall goal of this work is to study the measurement of intangible assets and their role in business. The study of intangible assets becomes crucial in the current global economic scenario, given the striking difference between the equity accounting and the market value of companies. In recent decades, accounting has been gathering strength in the study of intangible assets. Scholars, accountants and investors have sought methods to incorporate and report in the financial statements, the intangible assets of companies. The research has two aims: to define the assets, the theoretical framework related to the intangible assets and to identify and analyze the main methods of measurement of intangible assets.