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Cameron Trebbi at Taylor Lowell, LLP
By: Karthik Ramanna
Abstract
Cameron Trebbi is a senior executive overseeing accounting policy at a large global auditing firm. His role is to lobby the firm's position with various accounting rule-making bodies worldwide. The firm is close to acquiring as new audit clients a consortium of Chinese state-owned enterprises. The consortium has asked Trebbi's firm to seek an exception for state-owned enterprises on a proposed accounting rule. But Trebbi thinks such an exception is unsound accounting policy. He must decide how he will lobby, knowing that his testimony is highly valued by the accounting rule-making body and is likely to be unchallenged.
Keywords
Lobbying; Thin Political Markets; Accounting; Business and Government Relations; Accounting Industry; China; United States
Citation
Ramanna, Karthik. "Cameron Trebbi at Taylor Lowell, LLP." Harvard Business School Case 115-026, December 2014. (Revised June 2016.)