Um dos reflexos esperados pela utilização da contabilidade está em uma menor assimetria informacional entre as partes, sendo capaz de afetar a performance econômica das empresas, reduzindo o custo de capital próprio das mesmas (BUSHMAN; SMITH, 2001). À vista disso, ganhos na qualidade da informação emanada pela contabilidade teriam o poder de influenciar o custo do capital próprio, diminuindo-o e elevando a performance das firmas. Com intuito de auferir tais ganhos, foi criado o International Accounting Standards Board - IASB que passou a emitir normas denominadas International Financial Reporting Standards - IFRS que, por sua vez, delimitaram uma série de medidas a serem seguidas, buscando harmonizar as práticas contábeis sob um único pilar. Entretanto, a adoção das IFRS não está desprendida das forças do mercado de capitais e da qualidade do enforcement do país adotante, não havendo uma correlação clara entre a convergência contábil e o acréscimo de qualidade. Consequentemente, o impacto da sua adoção perante a performance econômica e o custo de capital próprio também é divergente. O presente trabalho tem o intuito de avaliar os impactos sobre o custo de capital próprio das empresas brasileiras de capital aberto em função da convergência, averiguando o comportamento da taxa. Ademais, busca-se aplicar quatro metodologias de estimativa do custo de capital próprio: Ohlson Juettner-Nauroth (2005), Easton (2004), Claus e Thomas (2001) e Gebhardt, Lee e Swaminathan (2001) e confrontá-las na avaliação do impacto da adoção do IFRS no Brasil. Os resultados indicam uma redução do custo de capital próprio em três pontos base perante o modelo de Easton (2004), mas resultados não significantes para os modelos de Gebhardt, Lee e Swaminathan (2001) e Ohlson Juettner-Nauroth (2005), sendo o modelo de Claus e Thomas (2001) excluído da análise por dados insuficientes. Tais pontos predizem a necessidade de aprofundamento das pesquisas com modelos de custo implícito e ressalva se a adoção internacional foi realmente eficiente frente aos incentivos e o enforcement vigente no país. / One of the expected consequences when using accounting is a lower information asymmetry between the parties, being able to affect the economic performance of firms, reducing the cost of equity capital of them (BUSHMAN; SMITH, 2001). Thus gains in the quality of the information disclosed by accounting would have the power to influence the cost of equity capital, reducing it and increasing the performance of the firms. With the purpose of obtaining these gains, was created the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) which began issuing accounting standards called International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to delimit a range of measures to be followed, seeking to harmonize the accounting practices under one pillar. However, the adoption of IFRS is not detached from the forces of capital markets and of the adopter country enforcement, without a clear correlation between the accounting convergence and the quality increase. Consequently, the impact of its adoption on the economic performance of firms and the cost of equity capital is also divergent. This study aims to evaluate the impact on the cost of equity capital of Brazilian joint-stock companies due to the convergence to IFRS. Furthermore, the present work seek to apply four methods of estimating the cost of equity capital: Ohlson Juettner-Nauroth (2005), Easton (2004), Claus and Thomas (2001) and Gebhardt, Lee and Swaminathan (2001) confronting each one on the analysis of the IFRS adoption impacts in Brazil. The results indicate a reduction of 3 basis points in the cost of equity capital under the framework of Easton (2004), but there are no significant results for the models of Ohlson Juettner-Nauroth (2005), Gebhardt, Lee and Swaminathan (2001), which the Claus and Thomas (2001) model was excluded for enough data. These points predict the need for further development of research on implied cost of capital models and raise the question if international convergence was really efficient given the incentives and the current enforcement in the country.

Capital markets development is an integral part of overall economic growth of any country. Accounting harmonization is aimed to increase the attractiveness of capital markets by creation of synchronized financial reporting environment globally so that the capital is effectively allocated with the lowest costs and increased liquidity. To the date, more than a hundred of countries implemented IFRS into the national accounting frameworks, therefore the need for the assessment of the real impacts on capital markets is obvious. The main goal of this study is to identify whether there is statistical evidence of the relationship between decreased/increased cost of equity capital among Russian listed companies and mandatory adoption of IFRS. Theoretical part includes an overview of the relevant theory, reasons of accounting harmonization as well as potential challenges. There are also described the main findings and real evidences of adoption impacts on the main capital and financial markets. Practical part of this paper is aimed to investigate whether the proposed benefits of IFRS adoption may be similarly observed in an environment of transition economy.

Submitted final thesis aims to map calculation methods for designation of cost of equity capital. It focuses on forward-looking approaches. Its practical part is dedicated to research of risk premium and implied cost of equity capital at the level of PX-TR index representing the Czech capital market

Thesis Variants of determining the risk free rate in the business valuation is dedicated to the issue of estimating risk free rate for the calculation of the discount rate. The objective of this work is to demonstrate the influence of methods to estimate the risk free rate to business valuation based on the example of a selected company valuation. The first part is dedicated to the cost of equity, cost of debt and weighted average cost of capital. Next chapter focuses on the definition of risk-free interest rate and rating as an indicator of credit risk. The thesis also deals with theoretical methods for estimating the risk-free interest rate and their practical application. Values calculated on the basis of theoretical approaches are then applied in the calculation of the discount rate to calculate the present value of the cash flows of company.

[pt] O presente trabalho tem por objetivo descrever modelos de precificação do custo de capital próprio baseado na metodologia do CAPM e no modelo de Estrada e demonstrar a aplicabilidade destes às empresas investidoras em concessões de terminais aeroportuários brasileiros. Para isto, serão revisados os princípios adotados pelo CAPM e os principais modelos teóricos que se utilizam dessa metodologia. Foram estimados os custos de capital próprio para investimentos em concessões de terminais aeroportuários para os diversos modelos CAPM e de Estrada e estes foram comparados ao custo de capital próprio e as taxas interna de retorno modificada e não modificadas esperada para o aeroporto de Guarulhos, conforme estudo de viabilidade econômico-financeiro divulgado pela Anac. Todos os valores do custo de capital, nos diversos modelos, foram inferiores as taxas interna de retorno e em linha com o a taxa de custo de capital utilizado pela Anac, demonstrando a atratividade econômica e financeira do aeroporto de Guarulhos para os investidores. / [en] The present dissertation aims to describe the cost of equity models that are based on the CAPM methodology and the Estrada model, set out their applicability for investment in the Brazilian airport terminals concessions. To this, it will be revised the most common CAPM models and their main theory. The costs of equity were estimated for each CAPM and Estrada models for an airport terminal investment. Then, they were compared against used cost of equity rate and the internal rate of return (modified and unmodified) obtained in the Guarulhos Airport feasibility study released by Anac. It was found, for all models, that the cost of equity was lower than the internal rate of return and in line with the cost of equity rate, showing the attractiveness of the Guarulhos airport for investors.

For the last decades, public authorities and private firms have emphasized their focus on integrating sustainability into corporate disclosure. The shift towards CSR instead of the traditional profit maximization narratives is evident in increased demand among various stakeholders for sustainability awareness. Thus, financial and non-financial disclosure legislation have become stricter, forcing companies to be more transparent (European Commission, n.d.). This thesis aims to examine CSR research by arguing from a previously unattended perspective of valuation. Thus, the formulated purpose “is to examine if CSR affects the deviation between intrinsic and market value of firms in the energy sector in Europe”. This sector is highly blamed for contributing to global warming by exhausting a large amount of greenhouse gas emissions (Mezher et al., 2010). Furthermore, this thesis distinguishes itself from other valuation articles by arguing from the paradigm of realism. In doing so, we argue that the intrinsic value is the independent reality instead of the market value. The market value is, in contrast, based on investors aggregated perception of the intrinsic value through information. This separation of the two values becomes theoretically evident from the perspective of irrationality. For this aim, a few well-established theories such as the market equilibrium theory and the efficient market hypothesis have been used to theoretically explain the deviation. To establish the empirical difference of deviation, a T-test was conducted on the ten most extreme ESG score firms in the European energy sector. The applied method for calculating the intrinsic value is a perpetuity version of the Residual Earning Method with an aggregated Capital Asset Pricing Model as the discount rate. In accordance with the implied result, we argue for a significant difference in both an absolute and relative deviation in this sector. Contradicting, our second test, regression analysis, could not validate if the stated finding depends on ESG and its components. Instead, the deviation could be viewed from the control variables: Size, risk, and profitability. Thus, a theoretical explanation could be an indirect relationship of ESG towards the deviation; however, further research is needed to verificate the finding. Ultimately, we contribute on two fronts, both towards theoretical and pragmatic knowledge by arguing from an un addressed research perspective, realism and establish that high ESG firms are undervalued compared to low ESG firms.

We develop an expanded asset evaluation model dubbed the environmental, social and governance (ESG) model, which includes a sustainability factor that accounts for the value of ecological and natural capital. We incorporate a sustainability factor into the Fama-French [2015. “A Five-Factor Asset Pricing Model.” Journal of Financial Economics 116 (1): 1–22] five-factor model plus the momentum factor. Further, we expand previous models by basing ours on microeconomic principles of value maximization and the macroeconomic principles of ecological economics. We estimate the sustainability factor premium and its factor loadings and find that following sustainable strategic management practices reduced the cost of equity by 1.6% to 2.9% per year worldwide. This implies that in 2018, sustainable strategic management practices increased world GDP by $1.3 to $2.3 trillion. Our results support previous research that there is a negative relationship between sustainability performance and the cost of capital.

We develop an expanded asset evaluation model dubbed the environmental, social and governance (ESG) model, which includes a sustainability factor that accounts for the value of ecological and natural capital. We incorporate a sustainability factor into the Fama-French [2015. “A Five-Factor Asset Pricing Model.” Journal of Financial Economics 116 (1): 1–22] five-factor model plus the momentum factor. Further, we expand previous models by basing ours on microeconomic principles of value maximization and the macroeconomic principles of ecological economics. We estimate the sustainability factor premium and its factor loadings and find that following sustainable strategic management practices reduced the cost of equity by 1.6% to 2.9% per year worldwide. This implies that in 2018, sustainable strategic management practices increased world GDP by $1.3 to $2.3 trillion. Our results support previous research that there is a negative relationship between sustainability performance and the cost of capital.

The bias implied by conservatism in accounting and its impact on information risk in equity markets is the subject of considerable debate. On one hand, opponents of conservatism believe that any kind of biased information is actually misinformation and thus increases uncertainty. Perhaps most prominent among opponents of conservatism is the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). The FASB contends that accounting information should be neutral—free from bias; a bias in favor of reporting either good or bad news is inconsistent with representational faithfulness and neutrality. On the other hand, proponents of conservatism point to incentives of management to manipulate financial statements by exaggerating apparent good news and/or hiding apparent bad news. Proponents argue that the bias implied by conservatism is necessary to offset the asymmetric reporting incentives of the firm’s management, and in so doing, conservatism allegedly improves information quality and reduces information risk. Finally, results of at least one recent study do not favor either position, suggesting that conservatism has no effect on information quality in equity market. This study finds that the bias implied by conservatism (bias in favor of reporting bad news) increases information risk in equity markets and consequently the cost of equity capital. Findings further indicate that sufficiently aggressive bias also increases information risk. That is, the market’s most aggressive firms, those reporting with a bias opposite that implied by conservatism, can reduce information risk by moving toward more neutral, unbiased reporting. Furthermore, the general effects of biased reporting (increased information risk) are consistent across all levels of information asymmetry among equity investors. These findings are interpreted as supporting the position of the FASB that biased accounting information increases information risk.

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