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Management under Limited Information - The Measurement of Off-Balance Sheet Assets at Hungarian firms

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Relying on three questionnaire-based surveys from 2004, 2009 and 2013, each covering around 300 top financial managers of different Hungarian manufacturing and service companies, this article analyzes how the perception and measurement of intellectual capital (IC) elements has changed. Instead of focusing on stock exchange prices or case studies of individual firms, this research is unique for using a database on the opinion of top managers over a decade. After the managers, IC has slightly gained importance giving 48-51 percent of the firm value during the years analyzed, still, most companies give little attention to measuring these items correctly. This is dangerous, as by just focusing on traditional accounting measures or relying on outdated methods, top managers are less likely to take shareholder value maximizing decisions. Encouragingly, those who measure do it better: book value has lost popularity while more appropriate market value based estimates have gained importance.

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  • Péter Juhász, 2016. "Management under Limited Information - The Measurement of Off-Balance Sheet Assets at Hungarian firms," Central European Business Review, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2016(4), pages 23-33.
    • Handle: RePEc:prg:jnlcbr:v:2016:y:2016:i:4:id:164:p:23-33
    DOI: 10.18267/j.cebr.164
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    valuation; invested capital; intellectual capital;
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    JEL classification:

    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
    • M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting

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