Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Revenue Recognition at Groupon and Uber Technologies
Gipper, Brandon; Foroughi, JaclynCase SGSB-A236-EAccounting and ControlGroupon, a daily deals platform and Uber Technologies, a ride-hailing and delivery platform, faced a common issue related to a new revenue recognition standard (and later amendments) adopted by most public companies in 2018. The amendments were designed to help companies determine whether the nature of their obligation to customers was to provide the specified goods or services to the customer directly (acting as “principal” and reporting revenue...Starting at €8.20
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Stride: The Early Sales Decisions
Speiser, Michael; Orleans, AmadeusCase SGSB-E647-EEntrepreneurshipStride was founded in April 2016 and offered a software that gathered data from disparate sources and organized such data in one platform with a simple interface, with the goal of enabling marketing teams to more easily develop and launch personalized marketing campaigns. Elise Bergeron, the start-up’s cofounder and Chief Operating Officer, had been confronted with multiple difficult decisions since the early days of the company. Some of the most...Starting at €8.20