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Understanding the Reporting of Intangibles from a Business Perspective

Authors : Thomas M. Fischer, Kim T. Baumgartner

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In the knowledge-based economy, the intangibles of firms have become the most important strategic resources and key drivers of firm value and business success. Traditional financial disclosures are no longer sufficient to convey a firm’s wealth-creation potential to stakeholders. Instead, intellectual capital reports have gained increasing importance to ensure transparency and reduce information asymmetries. Tax departments rely on these reports as a starting point for the identification and valuation of intangibles that are relevant for the transfer pricing process. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of a firm’s opportunities for reporting intangibles internally and externally. It also includes a description of suitable tools for internal reporting, such as an intellectual capital statement, and explains the German reporting regulations for intangibles as well as further approaches to voluntary external disclosure of intangible values.

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Footnotes
1
Barney (1991), p. 105, Hall (1992), p. 135.
 
2
OECD (2015), p. 67.
 
3
Lev (2001), p. 5, WGARI (2004), p. 225.
 
4
Marr and Schiuma (2001), p. 3.
 
5
E.g., Ellis and Seng (2015).
 
6
WGARI (2004), p. 225.
 
7
Fischer et al. (2015), p. 597, Coenenberg et al. (2016, p. 1203, 2018), p. 1229.
 
8
Lev (2001), p. 6.
 
9
The reputation of a firm has to be distinguished from the corporate brand. While brands describe a set of associations that customers have with a firm’s products (including awareness and functional appeal), reputation is formed through stakeholders’ assessments of a firm’s ability to meet their expectations (Fombrun and van Riel 2004, p. 4). Hence, firms can have a strong brand, but simultaneously a weak reputation or vice versa.
 
10
Fortune (2019).
 
11
Debruyne (2014), pp. 207–209.
 
12
New York Times (2013).
 
13
OECD (2015), p. 67.
 
14
Duhr and Haller (2013), p. 23.
 
15
Andriessen (2004), p. 232.
 
16
Levin and Weise (2013), p. 57.
 
17
Lev and Gu (2016).
 
18
Bhasin (2016), p. 5.
 
19
Andriessen (2004), p. 234.
 
20
Rylander et al. (2000), Vergauwen and van Alem (2005), p. 92.
 
21
Duhr and Haller (2013), p. 24.
 
22
Duhr and Haller (2013), p. 44.
 
23
Kaplan and Norton (2000), pp. 168–169.
 
24
Kaplan and Norton (1996b), p. 75.
 
25
Duhr and Haller (2013), p. 76.
 
26
Kaplan and Norton (1996a), pp. 25–29.
 
27
Kaplan and Norton (1996b), p. 76.
 
28
Kaplan and Norton (1996a), p. 25.
 
29
Kaplan and Norton (2000), p. 168.
 
30
Kaplan and Norton (2000), p. 172.
 
31
Kaplan and Norton (2004), p. 12.
 
32
Kaplan and Norton (2000), p. 175.
 
33
Duhr and Haller (2013), p. 78.
 
34
Kaplan and Norton (2004), p. 13; see also Sect. 2.1.2.
 
35
See Osterwalder et al. (2015).
 
36
BMWi (2008), pp. 15–16.
 
37
Choong (2008), p. 622.
 
38
BMWi (2008), p. 18.
 
39
Sveiby (1997), p. 10.
 
40
Marr and Gray (2004), p. 103.
 
41
MERITUM (2002).
 
42
MERITUM (2002).
 
43
BMWi (2008), p. 18.
 
44
BMWi (2008), p. 21.
 
45
BMWi (2008), p. 22.
 
46
Danish Ministry of Science (2003), BMWi (2008), p. 27.
 
47
Fischer and Baumgartner (2013), p. 29.
 
48
Fischer and Baumgartner (2013), p. 199.
 
49
BMWi (2008), pp. 34–35.
 
50
BMWi (2008), p. 37.
 
51
BMWi (2008), p. 44.
 
52
BMWi (2008), p. 48.
 
53
Fischer and Baumgartner (2014), p. 124.
 
54
Young and O’Byrne (2001), p. 36, Stern (2007), p. 116.
 
55
E.g., Coenenberg et al. (2016), pp. 884–887.
 
56
E.g., Chen et al. (2005).
 
57
Fischer and Baumgartner (2014), p. 129.
 
58
E.g., Su et al. (2016), Walsh et al. (2009).
 
59
Coenenberg et al. (2018), pp. 183–197.
 
60
According to §289b of the HGB a firm has to be classified as large (see §267.III of the HGB) and a capital-market oriented corporation (see §264d of the HGB) with an annual average number of employees of over 500. §315b of the HGB concerns groups whereby the parent company has to be a capital-market oriented corporation (see §264d of the HGB) and the consolidated companies must not exercise the exemption option that is available pursuant to §293.I of the HGB as well as have an annual average number of employees of over 500.
 
61
Coenenberg et al. (2018), pp. 963–964.
 
62
WAGRI (2004), pp. 240–241.
 
63
Wulf and Rentzsch (2013), pp. 51–52.
 
64
Wulf and Rentzsch (2013), pp. 52–54.
 
65
WGARI (2005), pp. 87–88.
 
66
Wulf and Rentzsch (2013), p. 54.
 
67
Lev and Gu (2016), pp. 45–46.
 
68
Barney (1991), Barney and Clark (2007).
 
69
Lev and Gu (2016), pp. 121–126.
 
70
Lev and Gu (2016), pp. 133–142.
 
71
IIRC (2013), p. 7.
 
72
IIRC (2013), pp. 11–12.
 
73
IIRC (2013), p. 16.
 
74
Barth et al. (2017), p. 10.
 
75
Zhou et al. (2017), p. 103.
 
76
Zhou et al. (2017), pp. 103, 116.
 
77
Lee and Yeo (2016), p. 1226.
 
78
Serafeim (2015), p. 40.
 
79
PwC (2016), p. 14.
 
80
SAP SE (2018a), p. 216.
 
81
SAP SE (2018a), p. 217.
 
82
SAP SE (2018a), pp. 217–218.
 
83
SAP SE (2018a), pp. 217–218.
 
84
See also Secundo et al. (2017).
 
85
See also Goebel (2015), p. 704.
 
86
Brüggen et al. (2009), p. 240.
 
87
Bozzolan et al. (2003), p. 550, Bukh et al. (2005), p. 717.
 
88
E.g., Bukh et al. (2005), p. 726.
 
89
E.g., Cerbioni and Parbonetti (2007), pp. 807, 815.
 
90
E.g., Bukh et al. (2005), p. 726.
 
91
E.g., Vergauwen and van Alem (2005), p. 92.
 
92
E.g., Ferraro and Veltri (2011).
 
93
Secundo et al. (2017).
 
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Abhayawansa (2014), p. 130, Zhou et al. (2017), pp. 94–95.
 
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Title
Understanding the Reporting of Intangibles from a Business Perspective
Authors
Thomas M. Fischer
Kim T. Baumgartner
Copyright Year
2021
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Book
Intangibles in the World of Transfer Pricing

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-73331-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-73332-6

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73332-6_6

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