Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Fundamentos de la Contabilidad
Corrales, J.M.; Dávila Parra, A.Technical Note IAE-IAE-N117-00892-SPAccounting and ControlLa contabilidad financiera descansa sobre fundamentos que son universalmente aceptados: es un sistema que identifica y mide los recursos que disponen las organizaciones. En su doble visión, los identifica computándolos por su aplicación (activo) y por su origen (pasivo). En esta nota se repasan los conceptos fundamentales que hacen a la comprensión de la contabilidad: recursos, doble visión, resultados y partida doble.Starting at €8.20
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Novartis: un Nuevo Lanzamiento en Latinoamérica (C)
Corrales, José María; Frias,Pedro; Lobo IvanaCase IAE-IAE-C117-02854-SPAccounting and ControlNovartis tenía previsto para 2008, el lanzamiento en Latinoamérica de un nuevo medicamento para el tratamiento de la hipertensión. Argentina, México y Brasil debían plantear sus estrategias adecuando el modelo de negocios de Novartis AG a las realidades locales. El caso permite abordar el análisis diferencial de una estructura de costos y rentabilidad, la fijación de precios, la complejidad del contexto latinoamericano y del sector farmacéutico....Starting at €5.74
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Don Gelato
Corrales, J.M.; Dávila Parra, A.Case IAE-IAE-C117-00847-SPAccounting and ControlEl no saber si en el análisis de rentabilidad de la empresa presenta ganancias o pérdidas hace sentir a la dirección insegura frente a las estrategias a seguir en el futuro. El caso muestra las contrariedades que tiene la empresa, una heladería artesanal, que en 1999 reporta, para los últimos 3 años, informes de rentabilidad opuestos, según dos departamentos diferentes. Se plantea la utilidad de un sistema de costos por procesos como herramienta ...Starting at €8.20
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Silicon Valley Bank: The On-Call Associated Program
Soule, S; Drabkin, DCase SGSB-OB88-EInnovation and ChangeMelissa Stepanis, deal team leader for Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) New York tech lending group, had been on maternity leave. When she met with her manager to discuss her anticipated return to work, she was not ready to come back. Not wanting to make commitments that she might not be able to keep, she quit. For Chris Edmonds-Waters, SVB’s head of human resources, Stepanis’s somewhat unexpected departure was concerning. She was the latest exampl...Starting at €8.20
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Sunbeam Corporation: Board Member Assessing Earnings Quality (B)
McNichols, M; Callan, CCase SGSB-A189B-EAccounting and ControlIt was June 9, 1998, and Charles Elson, a law professor and Director on Sunbeam’s Board, had just left a distressing Elson and the other outside directors met with outside legal and public relations advisors on June 13, 1998. After discussion of the events, the outside directors voiced that they had lost faith in Dunlap. They contacted the other directors and then called Dunlap to tell him he was terminated. Because of his apparent failure in ...Starting at €5.74
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Sticks and Stones? How Companies Respond to "Tax Shaming"
DeSimone, L; Hoopes, H; Lester, R; Melvin, SCase SGSB-A226-EAccounting and ControlAn increasing number of global corporations have experienced negative publicity over complicated tax structures established to minimize their tax burdens. In the case of U.S. companies, there has been a growing outcry over “inversions,” a means of restructuring the business so that the U.S. parent was replaced by a foreign parent entity in a nation with lower corporate tax rates. Apple CEO Tim Cook was called to testify regarding Apple’s tax st...Starting at €8.20
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Etsy: Keeping it Real by Keeping Taxes Low
de, Simone, L; Hoopes, J; Lester, R; Melvin, SCase SGSB-A227-EAccounting and ControlEtsy was an online craft bazaar founded in 2005 in a loft in Brooklyn, New York. The company was known for its emphasis on social responsibility, transparency, authenticity, and its somewhat nontraditional approach to business. In January 2015, Etsy converted its Irish subsidiary to an unlimited liability company, a move it described as implementation of an “updated global corporate structure.” In a subsequent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commis...Starting at €8.20
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ZipDial: Reaching The Next 3 Billion Consumers
Sorensen, J; de, Clara, LCase SGSB-IDE07-EInnovation and ChangeIn June 2014, Anthony Pile, founder and chairman of Blue Skies, called a board meeting to discuss the company’s development plans. The economic crisis in Europe had made consumers more price sensitive, putting pressure on profit margins and spurring the search for new markets. Founded in 1998, Blue Skies was a fruit processing company headquartered in the U.K., with its main production site located in Ghana, Africa, where it cut and packaged frui...Starting at €8.20
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Frontier Services Group: Building a Pan African Logistics Provider (A)
Lee, H; de, Clara, LCase SGSB-IDE11-EInnovation and ChangeIn June 2015, Peter Phillips, Chief Operating Officer of Frontier Services Group (FSG), was preparing an update for the board on how operations would support the company’s new strategy. Given the ongoing decline in the price of oil and the extractive industries, the outlook had changed for FSG. His aim was to steer a new course to becoming the leading pan-African logistics provider. Founded in March 2014 by Erik Prince, a former U.S. Navy Seal a...Starting at €8.20
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Paragon Legal: A New Model (B)
Sourl, S; Correll, S; Schifrin, DCase SGSB-OB81B-EInnovation and ChangeThe case is about the San Francisco-based law firm, Paragon Legal, founded by lawyer and entrepreneur Mae O’Malley. Paragon Legal gave high-level attorneys the opportunity to have a flexible schedule and work 10 to 40 hours a week. This was in the context of an industry that typically required very long hours and had inflexible schedules and serious penalties for stepping out of the field for any length of time. Eighty-five percent of Paragon Leg...Starting at €5.74