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An Overview of Patent Quality: Assessment Valuation and Financial Reporting Implications
Bruner, Robert F.; Frank, Mary Margaret; Simko, Paul J.; Martin, DavidTechnical Note DARDEN-F-1539-EFinanceA significant fraction of corporate market values derive from intellectual property. It is vital for the practicing manager to appreciate the risks and uncertainties surrounding intellectual property. This note focuses specifically on patent positions, arguing that these deserve special scrutiny because of an emerging crisis within and among governments, corporations, and inventors. The objective of this note is to introduce the reader to patent ...Starting at €8.20
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Hamilton’s Electronics Services, Inc.: The Second Year - Teaching Note
Lynch, Luann J.; Frank, Mary MargaretTeaching Note DARDEN-C-2396TN-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product C-2396Starting at €0.00
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The Treatment of Goodwill and Other Purchased Intangibles for Tax Purposes
Frank, Mary MargaretTechnical Note DARDEN-C-2258-EAccounting and ControlThis note outlines the effect of Section 197 of the IRS Code on goodwill and other intangibles purchased in an acquisition by comparing the treatment of goodwill and other purchased intangibles for tax and financial accounting purposes. The allocation of the purchase price in different taxable asset deal structures, the residual method, contingent payments and recapture taxes are also briefly discussed. These tax laws affect current and future ca...Starting at €8.20
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How to Put More Strategy in Your "Taxes and Business Strategy" Course: A Case-Method Approach
Frank, Mary MargaretTechnical Note DARDEN-C-2265-EAccounting and ControlThis technical note provides the design for a case-method course called "Taxation and Management Decisions" taught in Darden's MBA program. The course is a general management course, and is designed specifically to exclude mergers and acquisitions, which are taught in another elective. While the entire course is taught through the case method, students discuss and analyze a mixture of cases and press articles and exercises. The case method is an ...Starting at €8.20
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H&S Company
Frank, Mary Margaret; Habenicht, Paul; Garza, MelissaCase DARDEN-C-2310-EAccounting and ControlA important decision in starting a business is the choice of legal entity. This case provides a realistic, yet stylized, setting to facilitate a discussion of factors to consider in the entity choice decision, emphasizing legal and tax issues. Two MBA graduates have raised $5.2 million in equity from a small group of investors to buy a company. Upon determining to buy assets from another company to start their business venture, they must determin...Starting at €8.20
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Hamilton’s Electronics Services, Inc.: The Second Year
Lynch, Luann J.; Frank, Mary MargaretCase DARDEN-C-2396-EAccounting and ControlThe owner of Hamilton´s has provided his CPA with all the company’s invoices, bank statements, and a lot of other miscellaneous business-related information for the company´s second year. He has asked the CPA to reconstruct, in summary form, all the company’s second-year transactions and to create an income statement for its second year of operations and a balance sheet at the end of that year.Starting at €8.20
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Airbus and Boeing: Superjumbo Decisions
Bodily, Samuel E.; Lichtendahl, Kenneth C. Jr.Case DARDEN-QA-0720-EDecision AnalysisSet in 1999, this case allows students to put themselves in the positions of both Airbus and Boeing as Boeing considered how to respond to Airbus's decision to announce its plans to proceed or not with the $10 billion development of the world's first commercial superjumbo jet, the Airbus A3XX. Boeing was considering a development effort to "stretch" its 747 jumbo jet into a larger superjumbo version, the 747-X. At the time, the two companies' wid...Starting at €8.20
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Eliciting and Evaluating Expert Forecasts
Lichtendahl, Kenneth C. Jr.Technical Note DARDEN-QA-0734-EDecision AnalysisThis note emphasizes the idea that managers will often want to ask experts to express their opinions about important business risks using the precise language of probability. Examples are drawn from the 2008 financial crisis and involve value-at-risk financial reporting. The second half of this note explains how a manager might use a scoring rule to evaluate the quality of experts' probability forecasts. This note is intended to accompany an inst...Starting at €8.20
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Ocean's Dilemma
Grushka-Cockayne, Yael; Lichtendahl, Kenneth C. Jr.; Gupta, RohitCase DARDEN-QA-0798-EDecision AnalysisThe case is intended for a class relatively early in a decision analysis or a risk analysis class module. The case can be used as the very first case in the course if students are familiar with the concepts of NPV. Alternatively, students can be given a short technical note on calculating NPV for cash flows as pedagogy for the case. The analysis requires use of NPV calculations to determine the outcomes of different options in the case and to cho...Starting at €8.20
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Surveying Professional Forecasters
Grushka-Cockayne, Yael; Lichtendahl, Kenneth C. Jr.Case DARDEN-QA-0805-EDecision AnalysisThis case illustrates how averaging point forecasts harnesses the wisdom of crowds. Students access data from the Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF) and compare the performance of the crowd (i.e., the average point forecasts) to the average performance of the individual panelists and the best performer from the previous period.The case is intended for use in a class on forecasting, and the instructor can present it in three ways: with all n...Starting at €8.20