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Daimler Taps the Chinese Panda Bond Market
Lynch, Luann J.; Haskins, Mark E.Case DARDEN-C-2417-EAccounting and ControlPreparing for a potential interview, an MBA graduate reads extensively about Daimler AG. She learns about company’s longtime presence in China manufacturing luxury automobiles and its continued investment in manufacturing and R&D capacity in that country. She also learns that the company financed part of its operations and growth in China by issuing bonds in both China and Hong Kong and wonders whether the company would return to those bond marke...Starting at €8.20
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Corporate Financial Ratio Insights in a Department of Defense Context
Haskins, Mark E.Case DARDEN-C-2424-EAccounting and ControlThis case asks students to review 10 columns of financial data drawn from 10 different companies and to match each with an industry in a list of 10 industries.Starting at €8.20
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Sports Equipment, Inc.: Instant Insights for a Two-Factor Variance Analysis
Haskins, Mark E.Case DARDEN-C-2436-EAccounting and ControlSara Hughes, the CFO at Sports Equipment, Inc. (SEI), is striving to make financial analysis more easily and uniformly done by the company’s investment center managers. As such, she has presented her boss COO George Noland with a pair of tabular tools for deconstructing profit variances into three component parts. Those three parts pertain to the variance amounts due to: (1) utilizing more net assets (NA), (2) achieving higher margins on those NA...Starting at €8.20
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Becoming an Executive Education Faculty Leader of Choice
Haskins, Mark E.Case DARDEN-PHA-0081-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case provides an opportunity for students to consider and discuss the multifaceted responsibilities of an executive education (EE) custom program faculty leader. The case suggests that such a faculty leader has responsibilities and tasks paralleling many of the protagonists involved in building a custom home (i.e., builder/general contractor, designer/architect, site supervisor, county inspector, and key operations client liaison). As a star...Starting at €8.20
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Sparking Ideas for Crafting a "Culture of Care"
Haskins, Mark E.Case DARDEN-G-0651Knowledge and CommunicationMany, if not most, organizational leaders want to be viewed as concerned for and thoughtful toward their people. Not all, however, manifest that desire in observable or meaningful ways. This case presents an adaptation and amalgamation of real events. It is suitable for a graduate-level course and/or a professional development continuing education course wherein the focus is on topics such as: effective leadership, employer of choice, motivating ...Starting at €8.20
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Horse Vet, LLC: Transaction Analysis and Statement of Cash Flows Preparation (Option 1)
Haskins, Mark E.Case DARDEN-C-2333-EAccounting and ControlThis case pertains to the foundational underpinnings of the accounting process and the statement of cash flows. In Part I, students are presented with 23 business events that they must evaluate for recording in the financial records. Part II requires students to prepare a 2012 statement of cash flows using the information presented in the company’s 2011 and 2012 year-end balance sheets along with its 2012 income statement. In Part III, students m...Starting at €8.20
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Adenosine Therapeutics LLC: Accounting for a Different Compensation Method
Haskins, Mark E.Case DARDEN-C-2264-EAccounting and ControlThis case challenges students to apply financial reporting concepts pertaining, most notably, to liabilities and expenses in a specific corporate situation. In the context of an interesting, but noncomplex, technical accounting issue, students debate the best way for Adenosine Therapeutics to present its compensation arrangements in its financial statements. In addition, this case also prompts students to debate the best way for a growing company...Starting at €8.20
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The Gail Palmer Ashton Graduate School of Business: The Balanced Scorecard Initiative
Haskins, Mark E.Case DARDEN-C-2267-EAccounting and ControlThis case presents students with an opportunity to develop a set of performance metrics based on four strategic goal statements. The setting is a highly ranked U.S. MBA program. Students are given some basic, limited-but-sufficient contextual information about the school to get a sense of its heritage, avowed differentiating characteristics, and important foci.Starting at €8.20
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Ratios Tell A Story-2009
Haskins, Mark E.Case DARDEN-C-2316-EAccounting and ControlThis short case challenges students to review a series of corporate financial metrics and to match them to 1 of the 13 industries labeled and listed for them. It is suitable for MBA and undergraduate students ready to expand their basic understanding of financial metrics.Starting at €8.20
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Juno Manufacturing, Inc.: Verify Those Asset Figures
Haskins, Mark E.Case DARDEN-C-2325-EAccounting and ControlThe vice president of business development for the Better Living Spaces Company is excited about the prospects of his first acquisition, Juno Manufacturing, Inc., (JMI). He decides it would be prudent to verify that the reported assets on JMI's balance sheets are legitimate. Students will learn the paths he decides to pursue to gain firsthand knowledge of JMI's assets.Starting at €8.20