Los costos de investigación y desarrollo : necesidad de contar con información homogénea
Fecha
2009
Autores
Bertolino, Gisela
Díaz, Teresa
Suardi, Diana
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Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Estadística. Universidad Nacional de Rosario.
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En la actualidad, los estados contables no brindan información suficiente sobre los recursos inmateriales, lo que dificulta la consideración de las actividades de innovación como variables estratégicas. Los recursos intangibles no son fácilmente detectables en los estados contables: algunos se contabilizan como activos, otros como gastos y otros no se contabilizan en absoluto. En particular, gran parte de los costos en I+D se contabilizan como gastos del ejercicio cuando efectivamente representan inversiones. A la fecha se han logrado avances importantes en el desarrollo de herramientas que ayuden a las empresas a gestionar sus activos intangibles. Sin embargo, no existen instrumentos armonizados que permitan la difusión de información sobre estos recursos de una manera homogénea que facilite el análisis posterior de dicha información por terceros. Un primer paso significativo para la mejora del sistema contable sería la revelación de información cuantitativa desagregada sobre los costos de I+D, tanto si son imputados directamente a resultados como si son activados.
Currently financial statements do not provide enough information about intangible resources, which makes difficult the consideration of innovation activities as strategic variables. Intangible resources are not easily detected in financial statements: some are recognized as assets, other as expenses and some are not recognized at all. Specifically, most of R&D costs are charged to expense when incurred when they really represent investments. Important achievements have been made in the development of tools which help enterprises to manage their intangible assets. However, harmonized instruments that allow the homogeneus reporting on these resources, in order to facilitate the analysis of such information by external users do not exist. A significant first step to improve the accounting system would be the disclosure of quantitative broken down information about R&D costs, either when charged to expense when incurred, or when recognized as assets.
Currently financial statements do not provide enough information about intangible resources, which makes difficult the consideration of innovation activities as strategic variables. Intangible resources are not easily detected in financial statements: some are recognized as assets, other as expenses and some are not recognized at all. Specifically, most of R&D costs are charged to expense when incurred when they really represent investments. Important achievements have been made in the development of tools which help enterprises to manage their intangible assets. However, harmonized instruments that allow the homogeneus reporting on these resources, in order to facilitate the analysis of such information by external users do not exist. A significant first step to improve the accounting system would be the disclosure of quantitative broken down information about R&D costs, either when charged to expense when incurred, or when recognized as assets.
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Intangibles, Innovación, Información complementaria, Innovation, Supplementary information