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The purpose of the research is to determine the effect of the Research&Development Expenses, Marketing, Sales and Distribution Expenses and General Management Expenses on the brand value which form the operating expenditures. For this purpose, 30 companies with complete operating expenses from Brand Finance Turkey-100 list, whose brand value was announced between 2012 and 2014, have been included in the research. The obtained data have been analyzed by using the multiple linear regression model and correlation analysis in the SPSS20 package program. As a result of the research, it has been determined that Research&Development Expenses, Marketing, Sales and Distribution Expenses and General Administration Expenses which constitute the operating expenditure types have a significant effect on brand value. It has also been found that there is a positive correlation between brand value and each type of operating expense. In addition, it has been determined that the operating expenditure type that has the greatest effect on brand value is Research & Development Expenditures.