Intellectual capital in the financial performance of the bodybuilding sector in Ecuador

This article determines the influence of intellectual capital on the financial performance of companies in the bodybuilding sector in Ecuador. For this, the Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAICTM) model is applied with the information of 96 financial statements published by the Superintendence of Companies, Securities and Insurance, which after its purification was reduced to 43, corresponding to the 15 bodywork companies that they remained active in the 2014-2019 period. This is a descriptive -explanatory study whose results of the multiple linear regression analysis report that 31.0% of the return on assets, and 28.6% of the return on equity are explained by the VAICTM and the control variables, debt ratio and company size. This confirms the hypothesis that intellectual capital influences the financial performance of companies in the bodybuilding sector in Ecuador.