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The Future of Financial Reporting, Teaching Note
Ramanna, KarthikTeaching Note HBS-110006-EAccounting and ControlTeaching Note for [110701].Starting at €0.00
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Wal-Mart Lobbying in India, Teaching Note
Ramanna, KarthikTeaching Note HBS-114091-EEconomicsTeaching Note for 114023.Starting at €0.00
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Leadership in Corporate Reporting Policy at Tata Steel, Teaching Note
Ramanna, KarthikTeaching Note HBS-111096-EAccounting and ControlTeaching Note for 111028.Starting at €0.00
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Cameron Trebbi at Taylor Lowell, LLP
Ramanna, KarthikCase HBS-115026-ECameron Trebbi is a senior executive overseeing accounting policy at a large global auditing firm. His role is to lobby the firm's position with various accounting rule-making bodies worldwide. The firm is close to acquiring as new audit clients a consortium of Chinese state-owned enterprises. The consortium has asked Trebbi's firm to seek an exception for state-owned enterprises on a proposed accounting rule. But Trebbi thinks such an exception ...Starting at €8.20
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IKEA in Saudi Arabia (C)
Ramanna, Karthik; Lenhardt, Jerome; Homsy, MarcCase HBS-116017-EAccounting and ControlSupplement to case 116015. A Swedish newspaper reveals that IKEA has erased all images of women from its catalog for Saudi Arabia. The article sparks criticism of IKEA from the Swedish government and its customers in the West. Critics content that IKEA is not living up to its own commitments to gender equality. Some threaten a boycott. IKEA must respond. Reissuing the catalog with women included risks running afoul of Saudi censors who can impose...Starting at €5.74
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Choosing a GAAP for Canada
Ramanna, Karthik; Cheng, BeitingCase HBS-110023-EAccounting and ControlExplores Canadian regulators' decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The Canadian decision in 2005 to adopt IFRS is particularly interesting because Canada had well-developed domestic accounting standards and because a significant fraction of Canadian industry was lobbying for the adoption of U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and not IFRS. The case positions the student as an advisor to an importa...Starting at €8.20
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Why "Fair Value" is the Rule
Ramanna, KarthikArticle HBS-R1303H-EAccounting and ControlFor the past two decades, fair value accounting--the practice of measuring assets and liabilities at estimates of their current value--has been on the ascent, marking a major departure from the centuries-old tradition of keeping books at historical cost. Why has this happened? The author, an associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, offers one answer: The membership of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, whi...Starting at €8.20
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Deferred Tax Assets in Basel III: Lessons from Japan, Teaching Note
Hawkins, David F.; Ramanna, KarthikTeaching Note HBS-112114-EAccounting and ControlTeaching Note for 111076.Starting at €0.00
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IKEA in Saudi Arabia (A), (B), (C), Teaching Note
Ramanna, KarthikTeaching Note HBS-116062-ETeaching note for cases 116015, 116016, and 116017.Starting at €0.00
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Managers and Market Capitalism, Module Note
Henderson, Rebecca M.; Ramanna, KarthikCase HBS-112043-EEconomicsThe last thirty years have seen the widespread embrace of market capitalism as not only a highly efficient form of economic organization but also as one that best meets the diversity of human preferences. In large, complex societies, an increasing body of theoretical and empirical research suggests, however, that the existence of competitive markets rests on strong institutional foundations. This note explores the appropriate role for the general...Starting at €8.20