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Giving After Disasters
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAlthough the global cost of natural disasters has increased sharply, traditional sources of funding--governments, nonprofits, and NGOs--have not kept... -
Tread Lightly Through These Accounting Minefields
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn the current economic climate, there is tremendous pressure--and personal incentive for managers--to report sales growth and meet investors' revenue... -
U.S. Financial Reporting Is Stuck in the 20th Century
Accounting Digital ArticleCurrent accounting rules don’t always communicate real value to investors. -
From Niche to Mainstream (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleRiku Nakamura relocated six years ago with his family from Tokyo to San Mateo, California, to spearhead the launch of Kenko USA, the first foreign subsidiary... -
What to Know About Cash Flow
Finance & Accounting VideoLearn why businesses have to stay on top of cash flow, how they can make choices to stay healthy-and what happens if they don't. -
When Senior Managers Won't Collaborate
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor professional services firms, the only way to address clients' most complex issues is for specialists to work together across the boundaries of their... -
Can Public Trust in Nonprofits and Governments Be Restored?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWe entrust nonprofit and governmental organizations with society's most important functions--educating our minds, uplifting our souls, and protecting... -
Global Accounting Is Coming
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleAccounting scandals have opened the door to international influence on U.S. financial reporting. Most important for U.S. companies, under emerging global... -
The Greening of the Balance Sheet
Budgets and budgeting Magazine ArticleGreen initiatives can, by reducing costs, enhance a company’s bottom line. Actions that harm the environment can have the opposite effect. Now, thanks to a burgeoning market in greenhouse gas emission credits put into effect by the Kyoto Protocol, environmental considerations will increasingly affect not only companies’ income statements but also their balance sheets. A […] -
So You Think You Understand Revenues
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe sophisticated technologies used to understand costs don't illuminate revenue sources well. For that you need a whole new breed of accountant. -
Tread Lightly Through These Accounting Minefields (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn the current economic climate, there is tremendous pressure--and personal incentive for managers--to report sales growth and meet investors' revenue... -
How to Attract the Right Shareholders
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleInstead of casting a wide net, try a more strategic approach. -
From Niche to Mainstream (HBR Case Study)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleRiku Nakamura relocated six years ago with his family from Tokyo to San Mateo, California, to spearhead the launch of Kenko USA, the first foreign subsidiary... -
Just the Facts (and Forecasts)
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleBy definition, forecasted numbers in a financial statement involve educated guesses. But that's not always clear in the statement itself. To reduce legal... -
How the Growth Outliers Do It
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleSteady, predictable growth is what every big company strives for, and what investors prize above all else. McGrath set out to discover how many companies... -
Expensing Options Solves Nothing
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe use of stock options for executive compensation has become a lightning rod for public anger, and it's easy to see why. Many top executives grew hugely... -
Countering the Biggest Risk of All
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleCorporate treasurers and chief financial officers have become adept at quantifying and managing a wide variety of risks: financial, hazard, and operational.... -
Earnings Game: Everyone Plays, Nobody Wins
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleQuarterly earnings numbers dominate the decisions of executives, analysts, investors, and auditors. Yet for all the attention paid to these numbers, they're... -
Decoding CEO Pay*
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleEach year most public companies issue reports describing the pay packages of their CEOs. In them compensation committees attempt to explain the rationale... -
What's Your Project's Real Price Tag?
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleWith companies' financial statements being scrutinized as never before, executives are under pressure to forecast the cost of major projects accurately....
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Pidilite Industries: Assessing Credit Quality
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In mid-2015, a credit analyst with a leading investment company was tasked with assessing the overall credit quality of a chemical company that equity... -
Zauner Ornaments
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The primary purpose of this case is to provide students with an opportunity to practice the implementation of a simple activity-based costing (ABC) system.... -
Analytical Space: The Next Frontier?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details With one satellite aloft and in the midst of beta testing in late 2018, Analytical Space founders Justin Oliveira and Dan Nevius turned to critical questions... -
Central European Distribution Corporation: Hostile Takeover, Bankruptcy Makeover
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In early 2013, CEDC, a large publicly-traded producer and distributer of vodka and spirits in Eastern and Central Europe, has suffered significant declines... -
Highland Malt: Accounting Policy Choices in Financial Statements
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In early 2020, a recent graduate from a prestigious masters of business administration program was working as a financial accountant for a renowned private... -
Income Inequality and the CEO Pay Ratio at TJX Cos
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details TJX Companies reported a CEO pay ratio of 1,596-to-1 in 2019, leaving board chair Carol Meyrowitz with a host of questions about whether, and how, she... -
Advanced Technologies, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The CEO of a semiconductor equipment manufacturer is assessing the financial forecasts and financing plan prepared by the chief financial officer. Continued... -
Best Buy Co., Inc.: Customer-Centricity, Spanish Version
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details With FY2005 sales of $27.3 billion, Richfield, Minn.-based Best Buy Co., Inc. was the leading retailer of consumer electronics, home-office products,... -
A Note on Budgeting and Strategic Profitability Analysis
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details A budget is a tool that allows an organization to put its strategy into financial terms. It can be described as the financial plan for the organization.... -
Deals on Wheels Inc., Discussion Questions
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Discussion questions for case BAB372. -
Westchester Distributing, Inc. (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details Focuses on the three-way interaction among internal controls, employee behavior, and incentives. Salesmen are illegally providing kickbacks to customers... -
Introduction to Owners' Equity
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details An introduction to accounting for owners' equity and leveraged buyouts. Covers classes of shareholders, treasury stock, stock distributions, and dividend... -
Toy World, Inc., Japanese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details A shift from seasonal to level production of toys will change the seasonal cycle of Toy World's working capital needs and necessitate new bank credit... -
Octane Service Station, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The owner of a gas station must prepare financial statements. -
Managing Stakeholders with Corporate Social Responsibility, Course Overview
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The note articulates the ways in which strong stakeholder-company relationships developed through corporate social responsibility initiatives and other... -
JCDecaux, 2016: Global Leader ... Again
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details In 2016, JCDecaux was number one in the world in outdoor advertising. This was a far cry from the situation in 2003; at that time, JCDecaux had been unseated... -
Allied Capital
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Allied Capital is a publicly traded entity that makes illiquid equity and mezzanine debt investments in private companies. In the Fall of 2002, the firm... -
The Balance Sheet
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note explains how to prepare, read and interpret the Balance Sheet, the first and most important financial statement. The Balance Sheet or Statement... -
Houston We Have A Problem: They Paid Themselves Bonuses!
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details It was June of 2006, and Amanda Walsh, interim CFO, was soundly criticizing herself for not seeing the bigger picture of what had gone on during the previous... -
Juner New Materials: On the Road to IPO
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Juner New Materials (Juner) is a private China - based company that develops, produces, and distributes modified plastic compounds. Founded in 1995 by...
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Pidilite Industries: Assessing Credit Quality
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In mid-2015, a credit analyst with a leading investment company was tasked with assessing the overall credit quality of a chemical company that equity... -
Zauner Ornaments
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The primary purpose of this case is to provide students with an opportunity to practice the implementation of a simple activity-based costing (ABC) system.... -
Analytical Space: The Next Frontier?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details With one satellite aloft and in the midst of beta testing in late 2018, Analytical Space founders Justin Oliveira and Dan Nevius turned to critical questions... -
Pidilite Industries: Assessing Credit Quality, Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching note for case W16775. -
Central European Distribution Corporation: Hostile Takeover, Bankruptcy Makeover
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In early 2013, CEDC, a large publicly-traded producer and distributer of vodka and spirits in Eastern and Central Europe, has suffered significant declines... -
Giving After Disasters
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAlthough the global cost of natural disasters has increased sharply, traditional sources of funding--governments, nonprofits, and NGOs--have not kept... -
Orchid Species Preservation Foundation: Choosing a Direction, Teaching Note
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleTeaching note for case W17247. -
PolyMedica Corp. (A), (B), and (C), Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching Note to (9-104-023), (9-104-031), and (9-104-032). -
Highland Malt: Accounting Policy Choices in Financial Statements
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In early 2020, a recent graduate from a prestigious masters of business administration program was working as a financial accountant for a renowned private... -
Monsanto Company, Instructor Spreadsheet
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleSpreadsheet supplement for teaching note UV2557.