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Why Good Accountants Do Bad Audits (Spanish version)
Bazerman, Max H.; Loewenstein, George; Moore, Don A.Article HBS-R0211GAccounting and ControlOn July 30, President Bush signed into law the Sarbanes-Oxley Act addressing corporate accountability. A response to recent financial scandals, the law tightened federal controls over the accounting industry and imposed tough new criminal penalties for fraud. The president proclaimed, "The era of low standards and false profits is over." If only it were that easy. The authors don't think corruption is the main cause of bad audits. Rather, they cl...Starting at €8.20
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For the Last Time: Stock Options Are an Expense (Spanish version)
Bodie, Zvi; Kaplan, Robert S.; Merton, Robert C.Article HBS-R0303DAccounting and ControlShould stock options be recorded as an expense on a company's income statement and balance sheet, or should they remain where they are, relegated to footnotes? The authors believe the case for expensing options is overwhelming. In this article, Nobel laureate Robert Merton, one of the inventors of the Black-Scholes option-pricing model; his co-author on the classic textbook Finance, Zvi Bodie; and Robert Kaplan, creator of the Balanced Scorecard,...Starting at €8.20
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Pension Roulette: Have You Bet Too Much on Equities (Spanish version)
Stewart, G. BennettArticle HBS-R0306GAccounting and ControlIn the 1990s, funding pension obligations by investing in stocks looked smart. By 1999, the bull market had poured a collective $260 billion surplus into the pension coffers of the S&P 500, permitting the companies to record the year-to-year increases as additional income. But just two years later, the bear market had obliterated those gains, replacing them with a cavernous $240 billion deficit--which had to be offset by the unlucky firms' ongoin...Starting at €8.20
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Do You Know Your Cost of Capital? (Spanish version)
Jacobs, Michael T.; Shivdasani, AnilArticle HBS-R1207LAccounting and ControlThe Association for Financial Professionals surveyed its members about the assumptions built into the financial models they use to evaluate investment opportunities. Remarkably, no survey question received the same answer from a majority of the more than 300 respondents. That's a big problem--because assumptions about the costs of equity and debt profoundly affect both the type and the value of the investments that companies make, as well as the ...Starting at €8.20
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Performance Pay at Safelite Auto Glass (A) (Spanish version)
Hall, Brian J.; Madigan, Carleen; Lazear, EdwardCase HBS-808S09Accounting and ControlDescribes a company's changing of its compensation and incentive plan. In particular, it shows how a change from hourly pay to piece rate pay (for windshield installers) affected productivity, pay, and turnover.Starting at €8.20
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Performance Pay at Safelite Auto Glass (B) (Spanish version)
Hall, Brian J.; Madigan, Carleen; Lazear, EdwardCase HBS-808S10Accounting and ControlSupplements the (A) case.Starting at €5.74
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Revenue Recognition and FOB Sales Accounting (Spanish version)
Chapman, Craig JCase HBS-419S09Accounting and ControlWhen students have the English-language PDF of this Brief Case in a coursepack, they will also have the option to purchase an audio version. Biovail Corporation, a major Canadian pharmaceutical company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, announces that it will miss its quarterly earnings target by $25 to $45 million, blaming $10 to $15 million of the shortfall on a truck accident involving a shipment that left its facility on the last day of t...Starting at €8.20
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Transforming Unprofitable Customers: A Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Approach
Kaplan, Robert S.; Anderson, Steven R.Book Chapter HBS-5242BC-EAccounting and ControlThis chapter reviews the types of actions managers take on the basis of the output from their activity-based costing models, focusing on how to improve customer profitability, a common application for Time-Driven ABC. This chapter is excerpted from "Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simpler and More Powerful Path to Higher Profits."Starting at €8.20
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Chemical Bank: la implantación del cuadro de mando integral
Kaplan, Robert S.; Klein, NormanCase HBS-106S09Accounting and ControlLa división de banca minorista de Chemical Bank se enfrenta a la disminución de los márgenes y el aumento de la competencia en su reunión de crédito y de depósito y el procesamiento de los negocios. Desea aplicar una nueva estrategia para convertirse en un proveedor de servicios financieros preferido a grupos de clientes objetivo. La división se adapta el cuadro de mando integral para clarificar y comunicar la nueva estrategia e identificar los f...Starting at €8.20
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Verizon Communications, Inc.: Implementación de un Balanced Scorecard de Recursos Humanos
Datar, Srikant M.; Epstein, Marc J.; Cott, JeremyCase HBS-103S02Accounting and ControlA principios de 2000, Verizon Communications implementó un cuadro de mando de Recursos Humanos equilibrado para evaluar la eficacia de los pagos y de gestión de recursos humanos. Este caso describe los beneficios de la tarjeta de puntuación y los desafíos de la medición y aplicación. La enseñanza de Propósito: los estudiantes para ayudar a entender: 1) cómo implementar un cuadro de mando, 2) cómo medir y mejorar la efectividad de las funciones de...Starting at €8.20