Valuing Intellectual Capital

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 narrowly 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.

This book offers strategy for estimating the value of intellectual property in multinational companies, backed by research showing how corporations measure the worth of their intangible assets. Includes recommendations for a balanced corporate tax structure.

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.