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IESE Insight. Issue 15. Fourth Quarter 2012
IESE InsightMagazine REV-36-EAccounting and Control, Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyClaus Rerup (Richard Ivey School of Business) presents a framework for companies to improve their capability to pick up on signals that impending crises give off before they happen. The corporate communications consultant Alfonso González-Herrero looks at the key issues that companies must address, with forecasting and planning, in order to safeguard their reputations. IESE's José R. Pin provides a guide to help managers lead and communicate, so ...Starting at €22.00
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Pan-China Consulting Services: Assessing Future Directions
Yaqi Shi; Chaopeng Wu; Shi Li; Han ChenCase IVEY-9B21N004-EAccounting and Control, FinanceIn February 2020, Pan-China Consulting Services Co. Ltd. (Pan-China) was entering its third decade in operation. Pan-China’s founder was reviewing the firm’s evolution and discussing several key opportunities with his team. Over the previous two decades,Starting at €8.20
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Identifying Industries through Financial Statement Analysis: Pakistan 2017
Imran Yousaf; Zhichuan (Frank) Li; Aaqib NawazCase IVEY-9B21B012-EAccounting and Control, FinanceThis exercise provides the financial data of eight major companies operating in Pakistan in 2019 and listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange. It also provides a list of eight of the country’s main industries. Identify which company operated within which industry to test your understanding of how a company’s financial data can be specific to a particular industry. Using only financial figures, can you identify within which industry each company oper...Starting at €8.20
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Ashish Interbuild: Finding the Perfect Control System
Shraddha DananiCase IVEY-9B21B013-EAccounting and Control, StrategyAshish Interbuild Private Limited (AIPL) was a mid-sized founder-driven turnkey fit-out firm based in India. The firm executed prestigious fit-out projects across the country, and it had been making steady progress every year since its founding. Faced with an increasing workload, Ashish Thakkar, the founder and managing director, had decided to change the firm’s operating model from an owner-led model to one that was people- and process-driven. T...Starting at €8.20
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Anwal Gas Traders: Capital Budgeting for Expansion Project
Imran Yousaf, Frank Li, Aaqib NawazCase IVEY-W25080-EAccounting and Control, FinanceIn February 2021, the owner of Anwal Gas Traders, a liquefied petroleum gas distribution company based in Sakesar, Khushab District, in the province of Punjab, Pakistan, was considering whether to invest in expansion. It would be the first significant expStarting at €8.20
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The Game of Financial Ratios
Pooja Gupta; Madhvi Sethi; Darroch A. RobertsonExercise IVEY-9B17B001-EAccounting and Control, StrategyThis exercise revolves around the rivalry between two financial analysts. Upset by their constant game of one-upmanship, an advisor to the governor of the Reserve Bank of India came up with a challenge for them to prove who was better. He provided them with financial data for the financial year ending March 2014 from 10 anonymous companies and asked them to match the financial data with specific industries given in a list. The challenge was timed...Starting at €8.20
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Olympus Optical Company, Ltd. (A): Gestión de costes para productos de corto ciclo de vida
Cooper, RobinCase HBS-106S12Accounting and ControlOlympus Optical explora la respuesta estratégica a grandes pérdidas en su negocio de cámaras. Clave para la recuperación de Olympus fueron su extenso proceso de planificación de producto, un programa de mejora de la calidad, y un agresivo programa de reducción de costos. En particular, el caso Detalles del sistema de costeo objetivo de Olympus, que permitió a la empresa para diseñar productos de alta calidad a bajo costo.Starting at €8.20
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Alibaba se vuelve una empresa pública (B)
Palepu, Krishna G.; Srinivasan, Suraj; Wang, Charles C.Y.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-116S12Accounting and ControlActualización sobre evolución de la acción de Alibaba Group y eventos relacionados en el año siguiente su reunión de septiembre 2014 IPO.Starting at €5.74
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Why Good Accountants Do Bad Audits (Spanish version)
Bazerman, Max H.; Loewenstein, George; Moore, Don A.Article HBS-R0211GAccounting and ControlOn July 30, President Bush signed into law the Sarbanes-Oxley Act addressing corporate accountability. A response to recent financial scandals, the law tightened federal controls over the accounting industry and imposed tough new criminal penalties for fraud. The president proclaimed, "The era of low standards and false profits is over." If only it were that easy. The authors don't think corruption is the main cause of bad audits. Rather, they cl...Starting at €8.20
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Olam: Accounting for Biological Assets
Yew Kee Ho; Chee Khiang Teo; Kheng Hoe SitohCase IVEY-9B15A042-EAccounting and Control, StrategyIn 2012, an equity research firm based in California accused Singapore-based Olam International Limited (Olam) of engaging in potentially misleading and dangerous accounting practices. The firm — Muddy Waters Research — further stated that Olam was on the verge of bankruptcy. The primary complaint made against Olam by Muddy Waters was that Olam allegedly made aggressive use of “non-cash accounting gains,” particularly when reporting on Olam’s bio...Starting at €8.20