The impact of R&D programme success on the decision to capitalise development expenditures in European firms

The financial reporting treatment of R&D expenditures can have important implications for firms’ strategic investment in R&D. Yet, financial reporting issues have been largely neglected in the R&D management literature. In this study, we first hypothesise that firms’ capitalisation of development expenditures subsequent to the mandatory adoption of IAS 38 (International Accounting Standard 38: Intangible Assets) is positively and significantly impacted by a measure of R&D programme success. Our empirical findings – based on a pan-European sample of firms – reveal strong support for this prediction. Our findings also offer support for our second hypothesis which predicts that capitalisation of development expenditures in conjunction with an evaluation of R&D programme success has a positive and significant impact on growth in shareholder value. Consequently, our work suggests that an important challenge for R&D professionals within firms is to develop improved measures of R&D success and to communicate this information to senior executives.     

Capitalisation of the SPS into Agricultural Land Rental Prices under Harmonisation of Payments

As the 2013 Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) calls for the harmonisation of Single Payment Scheme (SPS) payments, we estimate the implications of this mandate on agricultural land rental rates over time as Germany began harmonising payments in 2010. Using Bavarian farm‐level panel data we find strong capitalisation effects that increase substantially in the years following 2009. On average, the marginal effect on rental rates of an additional SPS euro is 37 cents, growing over time to 53 cents as harmonisation develops.     

加快武汉区域金融中心建设 构建中三角城市群发展核心平台

武汉区域金融中心的建设将通过金融集聚为中三角城市群发展构建核心平台。这一核心平台的重要功能主要体现在:发掘潜在优势,将预期收益转化为现实生产力和现实财富的先导功能;转变经济发展方式的深化功能;将科教文化转化为生产力的催化功能。构建武汉区域金融中心的着力点在于资本化,集中体现在非上市公司股权交易中心建设等十个方面。武汉区域金融中心建设具有历史、现实的客观基础,又逢重要发展战略的机遇期,需要制定一个总体规划,积极创造发展条件,加大政策扶持力度,加快推进武汉区域金融中心建设。