nep-acc New Economics Papers
on Accounting and Auditing
Issue of 2007‒10‒27
two papers chosen by
Alexander Harin
Modern University for the Humanities

  1. The Accrual Anomaly: Exploring the Optimal Investment Hypothesis By Jin Ginger Wu; Lu Zhang; X. Frank Zhang
  2. Estado de la gestión del capital intelectual: evidencia empírica e ideas para la reflexión. The current state of intellectual capital management in Spain: empirical evidence and debatable issues. By Ochoa Hernández, Magda Lizet; Prieto Moreno, M. Begoña; Santidrián Arroyo, Alicia

  1. By: Jin Ginger Wu; Lu Zhang; X. Frank Zhang
    Abstract: Interpreting accruals as working capital investment, we hypothesize that firms rationally adjust their investment to respond to discount rate changes. Consistent with the optimal investment hypothesis, we document that (i) the predictive power of accruals for future stock returns increases with the covariations of accruals with past and current stock returns, and (ii) adding investment-based factors into standard factor regressions substantially reduces the magnitude of the accrual anomaly. High accrual firms also have similar corporate governance and entrenchment indexes as low accrual firms. This evidence suggests that the accrual anomaly is more likely to be driven by optimal investment than by investor overreaction to excessive growth or over-investment.
    JEL: G12 G14 G31 G34 M41
    Date: 2007–10
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:13525&r=acc
  2. By: Ochoa Hernández, Magda Lizet (Departamento de Economía y Administración de Empresas, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Burgos); Prieto Moreno, M. Begoña (Departamento de Economía y Administración de Empresas, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Burgos); Santidrián Arroyo, Alicia (Departamento de Economía y Administración de Empresas, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Burgos)
    Abstract: El actual y creciente interés por el capital intelectual, la diversidad conceptual existente en la parametrización del mismo, la constatación de su relevancia a la hora de valorar adecuadamente un negocio, así como el incipiente y parcial estado de la investigación empírica en nuestro país, justifican la necesidad de profundizar en estos aspectos. Para ello, tras la revisión y esquematización de la literatura más relevante, se realiza un análisis exploratorio, mediante encuesta y su posterior tratamiento, sobre una amplia muestra de empresas al objeto de estudiar el estado en el que se encuentra esta forma de innovación organizativa, cual es la derivada de los sistemas de información orientados a la gestión del capital intelectual. Los resultados obtenidos revelan aspectos significativos y novedosos en torno a la realidad de la gestión del capital intelectual, más allá de las meras declaraciones de intenciones, también analizadas, mostrando el gap existente entre las expectativas enunciadas por parte de las empresas y la realidad de su implantación. De la observación de los datos se extraen conclusiones que concurren a la construcción de nueva teoría. The current and growing interest in intellectual capital, the conceptual diversity of its variables, awareness of its relevance in any satisfactory valuation of a business, and the incipient and limited state of empirical research in Spain, more than justifies the need to delve deeper into these aspects. In order to do so and with a view to providing evidence on the state of this question, after reviewing and summarising the most relevant literature, an exploratory analysis is performed by processing the responses arising from a questionnaire sent out to a wide sample of firms. The results obtained reveal significant and novel aspects concerning the management of intellectual capital, beyond mere declarations of intent that are also examined, which show the gap that exists between the stated expectations of the firm and the reality of their implantation. Conclusions are extracted from the data under observation that contribute to the construction of new theoretical approaches.
    Keywords: capital intelectual, evidencia empírica. Intellectual capital, empirical evidence.
    JEL: M10 M21 M41
    Date: 2007–06
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ntd:wpaper:2007-09&r=acc

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