An Explanation of the Nature of Internally Generated Goodwill Based on Aggregation of Interacting Assets

49 Pages Posted: 9 May 2011

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Luc Paugam

HEC Paris, Accounting and Management Control Department; CFA Society France

Hervé Stolowy

HEC Paris - Accounting and Management Control Department

Jean-Francois Casta

University Paris-Dauphine - DRM Finance

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Date Written: May 2011

Abstract

Increasing internally generated goodwill (IGG) is another way of depicting the rising gap between market and accounting values sometimes referred as the “book-to-market black box”. Existing methods propose to value internally generated goodwill as the present value of abnormal earnings (e.g., residual income models) or to measure it indirectly through the excess of the enterprise value over the fair value of assets in a business combination. The critical drawback of these approaches is that they do not explain how the goodwill is created. In other words they do not enter into the “black box”. We propose an alternative valuation method based on the recognition that using an asset in combination with other assets leads to an interaction affecting firm value. In this context IGG emerges from an inadequate theory of aggregation of assets. Using Choquet’s capacities, which are non-additive aggregation operators, allows solving this adequacy issue as IGG arises as a consequence of specific synergies between assets. Our model is tested on the U.S. High Technology sector and benchmarked against the residual income model. To the extent of the accuracy to forecast enterprise value, our model performs better than the standard residual income model.

Keywords: Internally generated goodwill, Going concern goodwill, Synergy, Choquet integral, Residual income model

JEL Classification: M40, M41, G12

Suggested Citation

Paugam, Luc and Stolowy, Hervé and Casta, Jean-Francois, An Explanation of the Nature of Internally Generated Goodwill Based on Aggregation of Interacting Assets (May 2011). International Conference of the French Finance Association (AFFI), 11-13 May 2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1833624 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1833624

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Jean-Francois Casta

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