The Corporate Information Asset Investment And It’s Income Analysis

As a typical manufacturing industry, the iron and steel enterprise has the features of strong continuity, processing, automation and control technology diversity compared with other enterprises, which determines its high requirement to the information asset investment. Therefore, the issue of information asset investment and its income become one urgent question needed to revolve, also the main purpose of this article.This paper adopts a combinative research method of qualitative and quantitative. The main focus of the study is how to measure and evaluate the gains of information asset investment. This paper uses economics and financial management theories, with the case study, and uses quantitative analysis as the main method, along with qualitative to study the issue.This paper contains six chapters, the core content is to build evaluation index of information asset investment. This paper focuses on the issue of evaluation index of information asset investment. First, through the analysis of relevant literatures, it points out the limitations and shortcomings that China’s current information investment in iron and steel enterprises. Then, in terms of the characteristics and development status of China’s iron and steel enterprises, based on the principles and requirements of information asset construction, this paper uses financial theory and method, the Balanced Score Card approach and the case study to build the evaluation index of information asset investment.The result of this study is that enterprises’gains by investing in information asset can be quantified in an indirect manner, and verified through the case study to make the evaluation index feasible and practicable possibly.It concluded that the enterprise can measure the gains of information asset investment quantitatively. However, the more investment, the income is not necessarily better. Enterprises should allocate the information, human, knowledge and fixed assets reasonably based on their own conditions, so that all resources can promote each other in order to gain maximum returns with minimal investment.