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Exercise 1: Business Characteristics and Financial Statement Relationships
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn ForoughiCase SGSB-A211-EAccounting and ControlEffective financial statement analysis requires an understanding of a firm’s economic characteristics. The relations between various financial statement items provide evidence of many of these economic characteristics. This case presents the “common-size” condensed annual (2012) balance sheet and income statements for five firms in the Software and Services industry, a subset of the Information Technology sector, and four firms in the Retailing...Starting at €8.20
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Exercise 1: Business Characteristics and Financial Statement Relationships - Teaching Note
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn ForoughiTeaching Note SGSB-A211TN-EAccounting and ControlEffective financial statement analysis requires an understanding of a firm’s economic characteristics. The relations between various financial statement items provide evidence of many of these economic characteristics. This case presents the “common-size” condensed annual (2012) balance sheet and income statements for five firms in the Software and Services industry, a subset of the Information Technology sector, and four firms in the Retailing...Starting at €0.00
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Exercise 2: Industry Characteristics and the Statement of Cash Flows
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn ForoughiCase SGSB-A212-EAccounting and ControlDifferent industries present different trends in cash flows. At the same time, firms within the same industry but at different stages of the firm or product life cycle will have significantly different breakdowns for each section of the cash flow statement. This case presents common-size statements of cash flows for 10 firms in various industries. All amounts in the common-size statements of cash flows are expressed as a percentage of cash ...Starting at €8.20
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Exercise 2: Industry Characteristics and the Statement of Cash Flows - Teaching Note
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn ForoughiTeaching Note SGSB-A212TN-EAccounting and ControlDifferent industries present different trends in cash flows. At the same time, firms within the same industry but at different stages of the firm or product life cycle will have significantly different breakdowns for each section of the cash flow statement. This case presents common-size statements of cash flows for 10 firms in various industries. All amounts in the common-size statements of cash flows are expressed as a percentage of cash ...Starting at €0.00
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Exercise 3: Earnings Management and the Financial Statement
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn ForoughiCase SGSB-A213-EAccounting and ControlEffective financial statement analysis allows for the identification of lower quality earnings and potential earnings management. This case contains two separate cases within the Management Services and Information Technology Services industries. Each case presents a series of clues along with originally reported common-size financial statements and selected notes compiled from the financial statements for two competing firms in these two indus...Starting at €8.20
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HP and Autonomy: Who's Accountable? - Teaching Note
Hopkins, Justin J.; Yemen, GerryTeaching Note DARDEN-C-2408TN-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product C-2408Starting at €0.00
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Helvetia Insurance’s Dim Sum Bond Investment
Demers, Elizabeth A.; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-C-2387-EAccounting and ControlThis case explores the accounting for investments in corporate bonds. The global setting involving a Swiss insurer investing in the Chinese yuan-denominated debt (i.e., “dim sum bonds”) of France-based Renault provides significant opportunity for secondary learning. The case can be used with “Dim Sum Bonds at Renault S.A.”(UVA-C-2373), which involves the accounting for bonds payable from the perspective of the issuer. The accounting for Helvetia’...Starting at €8.20
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HP and Autonomy: Who's Accountable?
Hopkins, Justin J.; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-C-2408-EAccounting and ControlWritten using public sources, this case uses Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) purchase of Autonomy Corporation (Autonomy) to analyze the accounting treatment for the acquisition and subsequent goodwill impairment. While the case focuses on the accounting for mergers and acquisitions, it also provides for a variety of other discussion topics such as the effect of managerial incentives and CEO succession on accounting outcomes, managerial “spin” on disclosur...Starting at €8.20
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Can Zwift Disrupt Peloton's Ascent?
Dikolli, Shane; Wright-Pruski, Colin; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-C-2454-EAccounting and ControlThis public-sourced case uses the fitness company Zwift and one of its competitors, Peloton, to explore cost allocation and bundling services. The material includes a task to provide a back-of-the-envelope pitch about Zwift's potential to disrupt Peloton's growth. Although Zwift's foundation was on the software side, would an entry into the hardware side of the fitness space present a viable opportunity? As part of the analysis, students prepare ...Starting at €8.20
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China Electric Motor Hits the Street (B)
Simko, Paul J.; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-C-2339-EAccounting and ControlIn the A case, an investment advisor has uncovered mixed results about China Electric while reading through various research reports. Although China Electric is an interesting prospect, in the B case, the investment advisor has some doubts. Could China Electric continue at its high rate of profitability and growth? What was management’s plan in regard to investing cash in the business? He considers a company’s competitive environment and trends i...Starting at €5.74