Date of this Version
6-12-2009
Document Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
The coal seam gas industry is an important and rapidly developing sector of the Australian mining industry. This sector provides an excellent site to test the relevance of the Hotelling Valuation Principle (HVP) in explaining the market capitalisation of this industry sector. Currently, the majority of listed firms in this sector do not have positive cash flows from the sale of gas. The HVP posits that market values are a function of company reserves. We test five measures of firm reserves as explanations of market capitalisation. After controlling for scale differences, we find that 2P Reserves have the highest explanatory power. No other measure of reserves or resources plays any significant role in explaining market capitalisation.
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Duncan, K., Kelly, S., & McNamara, R. (2009). Gas reserves and equity valuation: Implications for accounting standards. Paper presented at the IAAER-ANPCONT 3rd international accounting congress: Accounting internationalization: Current and future trends, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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