Valuing Intellectual Capital

Valuing Intellectual Capital provides readers with prescriptive strategies and practical insights for estimating the value of intellectual property (IP) within multinational companies. This book addresses the evergreen topic of taxation from a rigorous and quantitative perspective, backed by original research that illustrates how large corporations measure the worth of their intangible assets. Each strategy in the text is applied through the lens of a model corporation, in order for readers to understand and quantify the operation of a real-world multinational enterprise and pinpoint how companies easily misvalue their intellectual capital when transferring IP rights to offshore taxhavens. §This book also features a chapter containing recommendations for a fair and balanced corporate tax structure free of misvaluation and illegal mechanisms. §CFOs, corporate auditors, corporate financial analysts, corporate financial planners, economists, and journalists working with issues of taxation will benefit from the concepts presented in the book as they clearly indicate how a trustworthy valuation of intellectual capital allows a realistic assessment of a company s income and earnings.Because of the intense interest in the topic of corporate tax evasion the material is organized to be accessible to a broad audience.