O presente estudo buscou fazer um levantamento de como as empresas tratam a reavaliação de ativos quanto à sua realização, tributação e periodicidade e quais os impactos dessa ação nas demonstrações contábeis. Impactos esses analisados à luz dos mais tradicionais índices de análise das demonstrações contábeis, contemplando seu tripé básico: liquidez, endividamento e rentabilidade. A pesquisa utilizou abordagem bibliográfica quanto às teorias contábeis e legislações pertinentes. No aspecto empírico, o trabalho foi feito por meio de levantamento documental a partir de demonstrações publicadas por 120 empresas que operam no Brasil e fazem parte da base de dados utilizada pela Revista Melhores e Maiores, publicada pela Editora Abril, em conjunto com a FIPECAFI. Nessas demonstrações, apurou-se qual o tratamento dado pelas empresas para a reavaliação de ativos e, também, foram calculados os indicadores das empresas, considerando os valores com reavaliação. Posteriormente, expurgando os efeitos da reavaliação, os índices foram recalculados, sendo, então, submetidos ao teste estatístico de Wilcoxon, com o fim de analisar se existiam diferenças significativas entre as duas situações. Os resultados encontrados mostraram que muitas das empresas pesquisadas não atendem o que prescreve a legislação quanto ao tratamento dado à reavaliação. As práticas levantadas apontaram para indícios de que a reavaliação foi feita com fins especulativos e oportunistas, quando a empresa necessitava melhorar sua imagem perante o mercado em que atua. Também, as diferenças encontradas entre os indicadores antes e depois da reavaliação foram relevantes e podem causar avaliações equivocadas da situação das empresas, caso o analista não esteja atento a seus efeitos. / The present study aimed at conducting a survey on how companies deal with the reevaluation of assets, concerning their realization, taxation, periodicity and which are the impacts of this action on the accounting statements. Impacts which analyzed at the light of the most traditional indexes of analysis of accounting statements, regarding your basic tripod: liquidity, indebtedness and profitability. The research applied the bibliographical approach concerning the accounting theories and pertinent legislations. In the empirical aspect, the work was performed by means of documental survey from statements published by 120 companies that operate in Brazil and constitute the database used by the magazine "Melhores e Maiores", published by Abril Publishing House together with FIPECAFI. In these statements it was investigated the treatment given by companies for the reevaluation of assets and it was also calculated the companies indicators, considering the values with reevaluation. Later, excluding the effects of the reevaluation the indexes have been recalculated, being then submitted to the statistical test of Wilcoxon, with the objective of analyzing if there are significant differences between the two situations. The results found showed that many of the searched companies do not observe what is prescribed by legislation concerning the treatment given to the reevaluation. The practices investigated point to clues that the reevaluation is made with speculative and opportunistic objectives, when the company needs to improve its image in the presence of the market in which it performs. The differences found among the indicators before and after the reevaluation are also relevant and can cause mistaken evaluations of the companies situation, in the case the analyst is not attentive to its effects.

The first essay examines the joint determination of the contract for a private equity (PE) fund manager and the equilibrium risk premium of the PE fund. My model relies on two realistic features of PE funds. First, I model agency frictions between PE fund's investors and manager. Second, I model the illiquidity of PE fund investments. To alleviate agency frictions, compensation to the manager becomes sensitive to the PE fund performance, which makes investors excessively hold the PE fund to hedge the manager's fees. This induces a negative effect on the risk premium in equilibrium. For the second feature, I add search frictions in the secondary market for PE fund's shares. PE fund returns also contain a positive illiquidity premium since investors internalize the possibility of holding sub-optimal positions in the PE fund. Thus, my model delivers a plausible explanation for the inconclusive findings of the empirical literature regarding PE funds' performance. Agency conflicts deliver a lower risk-adjusted performance of PE funds, while illiquidity risk can raise it. In the second essay, coauthored with Andrew Ang and Pierre Collin-Dufresne, we investigate how often investors should adjust asset class allocation targets when returns are predictable and updating allocation targets is costly. We compute optimal tactical asset allocation (TAA) policies over equities and bonds. By varying how often the weights are reset, we estimate the utility costs of different frequencies of TAA decisions relative to the continuous optimal Merton (1971) policy. We find that the utility cost of infrequent switching is minimized when the investor updates the target portfolio weights annually. Tactical tilts taking advantage of predictable stock returns generate approximately twice as much value as those market-timing bond returns. In the third essay, also coauthored with Andrew Ang and Pierre Collin-Dufresne, we revisit the question of a pension sponsor's optimal asset allocation in the presence of a downside constraint and the possibility for the pension sponsor to contribute money to the pension plan. We analyze the joint problem of optimal investing and contribution decisions, when there is disutility associated with contributions. Interestingly, we find that the optimal portfolio decision often looks like a ``risky gambling" strategy where the pension sponsor increases the pension plan's allocation to risky assets in bad states. This is very different from the traditional prediction, where in economy downturns the pension sponsor should fully switch to the risk-free portfolio. Our solution method involves a separation of the pension sponsor's problem into a utility maximization problem and a disutility minimization one.

The existing literature proposes a broad spectrum of methodologies to measure firm's superior operating capabilities, referring to them under different names such as 'knowledge assets', 'intellectual capital', 'organisation capital', etc. Through the work reported in this thesis, I intend to contribute to the research field by exploring one specific measure of a firm's operating capabilities proposed by Lev, Radhakrishnan and Zhang (Abacus, 2009). These researchers empirically construct an organisation capital measure and argue it has predictive ability for future performance and is able to explain future abnormal stock returns in the USA. I extend their research to the UK. In doing so, I also critically discuss the organisation capital estimation process and propose potential improvements to the technique. I find evidence of its construct validity in the UK. I examine the organisation capital measure's predictive ability for future performance. The results suggest that this measure is positively associated with future sales growth in the UK. Additionally, the organisation capital measure seems to explain persistence of the operating income and sales of firms in the UK. Via value relevance tests, I obtain empirical evidence that the organisation capital measure is positively associated with equity market value in the UK. Moreover, it is positively associated with the earnings multiplier in value relevance tests. This finding is consistent with empirical evidence that the organisation capital measure is positively associated with one-year ahead earnings and positively affects earnings persistence in such an association in the UK. Finally, I fail to find evidence of the organisation capital measure's ability to explain future excess stock returns in the UK. This suggests that information on firm-specific operating capabilities captured by the organisation capital measure is recognised by the capital market participants and contemporaneously incorporated into stock prices. This result, however, contrasts with the Lev et al. (2009) findings in the USA that organisation capital is mispriced.

Since 2005, all companies quoted at European stock exchange are obligated to report their financial statements under IFRS. As the Czech companies primarily issue their financial statements under Czech acounting standards, the bookeeping under both accounting system raise the necessity of knowledge of mutual differences. The object of this work is to bring the attention to the accounting area of tangible and intangible assets from the point of view of both systems.

<p>Background: The basis for a price valuation of a company is dependent on both its assets net worth and earnings calculations. While the assets are an important part of the valuation of a company, it is important that the valuation is reliable and resource usage can be measured and allocated to each time period. </p><p>Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to illustrate the difficulties when valuating and allocating own produced fixed assets. </p><p>Accomplishment: We have chosen a case study where the aims are to understand and explain the difficulties with valuating and allocating own produced fixed assets. The research is based on nine personal interviews. </p><p>Result: To obtain a reliable value on own produced fixed asset it requires an accurate project record and a well functioning time management system. The systematic allocation should reflect the actual usage period. An incorrect valuation or systematic allocation of usage can imply that the accounting loses its information value.</p>

Background: The basis for a price valuation of a company is dependent on both its assets net worth and earnings calculations. While the assets are an important part of the valuation of a company, it is important that the valuation is reliable and resource usage can be measured and allocated to each time period. Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to illustrate the difficulties when valuating and allocating own produced fixed assets. Accomplishment: We have chosen a case study where the aims are to understand and explain the difficulties with valuating and allocating own produced fixed assets. The research is based on nine personal interviews. Result: To obtain a reliable value on own produced fixed asset it requires an accurate project record and a well functioning time management system. The systematic allocation should reflect the actual usage period. An incorrect valuation or systematic allocation of usage can imply that the accounting loses its information value.

We analyze an interdiction problem in which a nuclear-material smuggler can traverse the rail and road ports of entry (POEs) along the Mexican and Canadian borders of the United States. Our objective is to determine the optimal locations of a limited number of transparent and non-transparent assets so as to minimize the smuggler’s total probability of evasion, from origin to destination. We choose origins in Mexico and Canada and give the smuggler a diverse set of destinations to choose from. Our analysis aims to provide a complete prioritization and picture of the threat at Mexican and Canadian POEs, leading to insight into practical locations for transparent and non-transparent assets. / text

[Truncated abstract] Following the introduction in 1999 of Australian Accounting Standard Board (AASB) 1041: 'Revaluations of Non-Current Assets' (Australian Accounting Standards Board 2001a), this study set out to examine the impact of the introduction of this new standard on: the number (percentage) of Australian firms revaluing various classes and submajor classes of non-current assets; and the value relevance and reliability of the information provided with respect to various sub-major classes of non-current assets. The study also set out to examine the apparent motivations for Australian companies electing the fair value (FV) basis, rather than the historic cost (HC) basis, for reporting property, plant and equipment (PP&E). The sample analysed in this study consisted of Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) listed firms that were included in each of the Connect4, Aspect Financial and Core Research Data (CRD) databases. After excluding firms not covered by all three databases and firms where there were missing data problems, 398 and 424 firms were left in the 1999 and 2002 samples, respectively. Of the 398 and 424 firms, there were 194 firms that were common to both sample periods and a separate analysis of these 'common' firms allowed a 'like-for-like' comparison to be made. The financial year ending June 30, 1999 provides data under the previous standard AASB 1010 (Australian Accounting Standards Board 2000) before the introduction of AASB 1041, while the financial year ending 30 June 2002 provides data under AASB 1041 (the new standard). ... At the disaggregated level (that is, for various sub-major classes of non-current assets), it appears that there was a decline in the number (percentage) of firms choosing to revalue investment property, property, and plant and equipment, while there was no change in the number (percentage) of firms choosing to revalue listed or unlisted investments. It appears that AASB 1041's requirement to revalue frequently when the FV basis was adopted discouraged firms from choosing the FV basis for some asset classes, presumably because the costs associated with frequent revaluations outweighed the perceived benefits. In terms of value relevance, the results suggest that where the variables of interest are scaled there was no improvement in the value relevance of the information provided by Australian companies following the introduction of AASB 1041. However, the results from the unscaled regressions do not support this conclusion and instead suggest that the introduction of AASB 1041 was associated with an overall improvement in the value relevance of the information provided with respect to the various sub-major classes of non-current assets investigated in this study. Resolution of this conflicting result is beyond the scope of this dissertation and is an issue worthy of future research. In terms of reliability, the results suggest that the introduction of AASB 1041 was generally associated with: an improvement in the reliability of information reported with respect to non-current assets reported at FV; and a deterioration in the reliability of information reported with respect to non-current assets reported at HC. Finally, with respect to the potential motivations behind a company's choice of the FV basis for reporting PP&E, the results suggest that firms are motivated to revalue PP&E to: improve their borrowing capacity; for signalling purposes; and to reduce information asymmetry.

This master thesis is intent on the financing of the long-term assets at its acquire. The master is the compare of the leasing financing and other ways of financing. In thesis there are characterised the long-term assets, leasing-financing and alternative sources of financing. Everything is applicated on the case of the concrete long-term assets at the select company. Comparing and evaluation of four variants financing of the assets {--} the purchase from own means, the possibility of the bank credit and two variants of the leasing financing {--} is execute from the standpoint of the absolute financial pretentious and comparing from the standpoint of the costing pretentious, where are expended costs transfer to the present value.

The acquisition of failing companies is a frequent practice in the modern commercial traffic. One of these modalities is to purchase companies immersed in an insolvency proceeding, either through the purchase of the operating business or the purchase of credits in order of its capitalization. The colombian regime insolvency has the tools to enable these type of operations although they do not achieved the desire objective. / La adquisición de empresas en crisis es una práctica frecuente dentro del tráfico mercantil moderno. Una de esas modalidades es la compra de empresas inmersas en proceso de insolvencia, ya sea a través de la compra del negocio en marcha o de la compra de créditos con miras a su capitalización. El régimen de insolvencia colombiano cuenta con herramientas para permitir este tipo de operaciones aunque las mismas no han alcanzado la profundidad deseada.