Valuing Intellectual Capital: Multinationals and Taxhavens

by Gio Wiederhold

Overview

Valuing Intellectual Capital provides readers with prescriptive strategies and practical insights for estimating the value of intellectual property (IP) and the people who create that IP within multinational companies. This book addresses the crucial topic of taxation from a rigorous and quantitative perspective, backed by experience and original research that illustrates how large corporations need to measure the worth of their intangible assets. Each method 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 tax havens. The effect contributes to the issues that can lead to budgetary crises, such as the so-called “fiscal cliff” that was partially averted by passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act on New Year’s day 2013. This book also features a chapter containing recommendations for a fair and balanced corporate tax structure free of misvaluation and questionable mechanisms.

CFOs, corporate auditors, corporate financial analysts, corporate financial planners, economists, and journalists working with issues of taxation will benefit from the concepts and background presented in the book. The material clearly indicates how a trustworthy valuation of intellectual capital allows a realistic assessment of a company’s income, earnings, and obligations.​ Because of the intense interest in the topic of corporate tax avoidance the material is organized to be accessible to a broad audience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781489987266
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	08/27/2015
Series:	Management for Professionals
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Pages:	543
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Gio Wiederhold is professor emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University. He holds a PhD from the University of California, San Francisco and an honorary D.Sc. from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has been elected as a fellow of the ACM, the IEEE, and the ACMI. Gio has been consulting on technical- and business-related issues since 1965 in government, academia, and industry, including several multinationals in finance, computing, and pharmaceuticals. He currently teaches two courses at Stanford: Business on the Internet and Software Economics.

Table of Contents

Preface.- Introduction.- International Corporations and Taxes.- Structure and Activities of a Model Multinational Company: MNC.- The Value of Intellectual Capital.- Transfer Pricing.-Eight Valuation Methods.- Types and Roles of Taxhavens.- Taxes Avoided by MNC.- US Taxation.- Effect on National Economies.- Conclusion and Recommendations.- Bibliography.- Appendix A MNC’s Income and Balance Statements. - Appendix B Selected Laws and Regulations.- Appendix C Royalties for IP.- Appendix D Definitions and Glossary.- Appendix E Tax Expenditures.- Appendix F Formulas and Analyses applied to MNC. Extensive References and Index.