Valuing Intellectual Capital

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.

• 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.