According to the current accounting standards, only a minor part of intellectual capital is presented in financial statements. Nevertheless, more and more companies in Lithuania and abroad reveal information about their intellectual capital in their annual statements. Therefore, the object of this paper is the disclosure of information on intellectual capital, and the aim is to reveal the trends of disclosure of information on intellectual capital based on annual reports by Nasdaq OMX Baltic-listed companies in the years 2010 to 2012. The main method applied in the present article is content analysis. Results. On the grounds of the described research methodology, the content analysis of annual reports dated from 2010 to 2012 by Nasdaq OMX Baltic-listed companies was performed. By applying the "QDA Miner" software, intellectual capital-related terms were calculated and distributed into three categories (human, relational, and organizational) in terms of the assets and liabilities. The obtained results of the three countries were compared in order to reveal the trends of development; furthermore, a correlation analysis was conducted to reveal the relationship between the market capitalization of a specific country and the level of disclosure on the intellectual capital of enterprises. Conclusions. The present research reveals that the total disclosed information on the intellectual capital of the Nasdaq OMX Baltic-listed companies was increasing each year from 2010 to 2012. On the other hand, the research shows that the trends and the structure of the disclosed information on the intellectual capital are different in each Baltic country. The highest amount of information was revealed by Lithuanian enterprises and the lowest amount is shared by Estonian enterprises. The best-covered information on the intellectual capital presents the employees as an asset while the most scantily revealed information describes intellectual liabilities. J. Ibikunle et al., 2013 and others). However, such a research has never been conducted in the Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia). In order to fill this gap, the object of this research is the disclosure of information on the intellectual capital, and the aim is to reveal the trends of the disclosure of information on the intellectual capital, based on annual reports of the Nasdaq OMX Baltic-listed companies of the years 2010 to 2012. The main method applied in the present study is content analysis. In order to achieve a higher precision and objectivity, the QDA Miner software was employed.The paper is structured as follows. Section 1 deals with the concept and structure of the intellectual capital. Section 2 elaborates on former empirical studies on the disclosure of information on the intellectual capital, presented in various academic writings. Section 3 introduces the methodology of the empirical research conducted in this paper. Finally, Section 4 reveals the results of the empirical research and discusses the findings.
