“K.Chart” is new practical approach to assessing the complete Capital Structure

Intangible Assets - Evaluation and Reporting

Introduction

Dear Sir/Madam,

My Name is Kirill Kretov and I am working on my Doctoral Research – “Evaluation and Reporting of Intangible Assets (Intellectual Property)”. I have identified various theories and methods on the evaluation of Intangible Assets, origin of goodwill, and measurement of Intellectual Capital and potential. As far as I can judge, all of these theories, concepts and models are more theoretical than practical.

So I contact you today in order to collect your opinion on some points. Your experience which I hope you would be kind enough to share with me will certainly help me in assessing better my thesis. Please may I ask you to take 30 minutes of your precious time to complete the attached questionnaire?

Please, send all your replies to ia.research.2011@gmail.com
Thank you for your help and support!

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Respondent

Less than 10
Between 10 and 100
Between 100 and 1,000
Between 1,000 and 10,000
More than 10,000
Less than 1 million
Between 1 and 10 millions
Between 10 and 100 millions
Between 100 millions and 1 billion
More than 1 billion

Evaluation of Intangible Assets

Every Day
Every Week
Every Month
Every Year
Never
Income-Earnings (Discounted Cash Flow, Direct Capitalization Methods, Residual Income Method, Royalty Costing, etc)
Market-Comparison (Internal Transaction Price, Similar Product Price)
Cost (Original Cost, Book Cost, Replacement Cost)
Experts’ Opinions (Including various IC valuation concepts, such as Tobin Ratio, IC-Index, Scandia Navigator, Asset Monitor, etc.)
Recognized in accounting (mainly in IAS-38) Not-recognized in accounting
A. Trade marks
B. Software
C. Licenses and Franchises
D. Patents
E. Copyrights
F. Service and exploitation rights
G. Recipes, formulas, models, projects and concepts
H. Source Codes and documented algorithms
I. Acquired Goodwill (IAS-3)
J. Expenses on training and education
K. Advertizing Expenses
L. Reorganizational Expenses
M. Research expenses
N. Stuff (Personnel) skills and abilities
O. Technical knowledge
P. Market share
Q. List of clients
R. Brand names
S. Internal Goodwill
  Add your items (not listed above, but you think that should be)
T
U
V
W
X
1
2
3
4
5
  Income Market Cost Expert
1
2
3
4
5
1
2
3
4
5
1
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5
The choice of format should be decided by reporting company
The format should have a recommended structure
The format should be strictly regulated
Your option:

My Concept for Reporting Capital Structure

In this part I would like to share with you my concept of graphical reporting of capital structure that I developed through my research. I find it very applicable for the purpose of fast analysis.

Below you can see the two traditional formats of capital structure reporting: table and hierarch-tree diagram.

1. Table (with color codes)

K.Chart Table

2. Hierarchy tree (with percent values)

K.Chart

Hierarchy tree is generally superior to table representation, because you can visually see the hierarchy of resources. A percent figure next to each block to signify its value within the total capital.

The same capital structure in a format of K.Chart, may look like:

3. K.Chart13 (with full text comments)

K.Chart

Note, that comments (text blocks) can contain any information (absolute values, descriptions, etc). In the graph below full text comments were replaced with code names

4. K.Chart13 (with codenames)

K.Chart

The graph becomes more compact, but information about resources is now masked and can only be decoded by someone who has a decoding table (refers to the first table in this section, column “code”).

Benefits of using K.Chart

‘K.Chart” presents a class of graphs that give a lot more possibilities for capital structure representation than any other type of graphs, because it simply allows more informational dimensions (graphical methods of data representation):

  • Layers that represent hierarchy (normally, during analysis one doesn’t go below the 4th)
  • Sub-elements for each layer – located just above their parent.
  • Size of area of each sector – volume (relative value). Principle is similar to pie charts.
  • Color code (Currently not in use, except it clearly separates one resource from another).
  • Graphical Comments (Can be of any complexity, but recommended is between 3 and 30 characters)

Graphical Comments (Can be of any complexity, but recommended is between 3 and 30 characters)

Another example

Below you can see an example of some hypothetic company with almost 200 groups of resources identified on the graph. There you can see different scales, use of full text comments and of code names. Charts that are not marked with “complete” have a size constraint – the total value of group of resources should be minimum 1% of total capital.

1200x 1200px
Complete
3966x 3968px
3966x 3968px
Complete
2794x 2796px
2794x 2796px
Alternative

Note that the final picture only represents a structure of the sub-sub-element ("Organizational Resources" within "Intangible Assets"). For the total capital structure reporting there should be about 5 graphs like this one. The complete capital structure in a format of opimized hierachy tree can be found here (1400x6345px)

In my experience we have built the capital structure of more than 30000 (thirty thousands) entries, the printed graph was about 16 square meters.

You opinion on “K. Chart”

Yes
No
Yes
No
a. Hard to prepare data necessary for the graph
b. Hard to draw a graph from the data collected
c. Hard to understand what graph represents
d. Classification of assets should be different
Developers
Clearing Partners
Operating Systems
Partner Markets
Column / Bar
Line / Area
Pie / Doughnut
Hierarchy Tree
Excel Table (no colors)
Excel Table (colored)
Textual Report
Reduced error rate
Easier spot analysis (mainly comparison)
Makes trend analysis possible
Simplifies preparation of reports
Enhances perception (understanding) of reported data
Other:
Interesting
Helpful
Novel
Reasonable
Practical
Theoretical
Clear (understandable)
Promising
Complicated
Useless
Beautiful
Your option:
Yes
No
Yes
No

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