Value added intellectual coefficient (VAIC): an empirical study


Mehrnaz Paknezhad and Ahmad Ahmadkhani


There is no doubt that conventional accounting does not provide actual value of a firm since they only take into account the tangible assets. Intellectual capital provides a new concept for considering actual value of the assets, which helps calculate intangible values of the firm. In this paper, we use value added intellectual coefficient (VAIC) to measure the performance of a firm. The study investigates the relationship between intellectual capital and return on assets and value added for three consecutive years between 2008 and 2010. The results indicate that there is no meaningful relationship between intellectual capital and return on assets for fiscal years of 2008 and 2009 but there is a meaningful relationship between these two items for the fiscal year of 2010 when . Our findings also indicate that there is no meaningful relationship between intellectual capital and value added for the years of 2008 and 2010 but there is a meaningful relationship between the items for the fiscal year of 2009. The results somewhat confirm the recently published results in the literature, which argues the use of VAIC for assessing the direct impact of IC on other financial factors.


DOI: j.msl.2012.01.006

Keywords: Intellectual capital ,Value added ,Return on Asset ,Performance measurement

How to cite this paper:

Paknezhad, M & Ahmadkhani, A. (2012). Value added intellectual coefficient (VAIC): an empirical study.Management Science Letters, 2(3), 745-750.


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