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- December 1999 (Revised December 2010)
- Background Note
Accounting for Income Taxes
By: David F. Hawkins
Accounting for Income taxes under US-GAAP and IFRS. Analysis of income tax information in financial statements.
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Hawkins, David F. "Accounting for Income Taxes." Harvard Business School Background Note 100-035, December 1999. (Revised December 2010.)
- September 1992 (Revised September 2004)
- Background Note
Accounting for Current Assets
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
An introduction to accounting for current assets: receivables, inventories, and other current assets. Included are discussions of FIFO, LIFO, average cost, and explanation of accounting for manufactured inventories. To be assigned with cases on inventory valuation as...
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Bruns, William J., Jr. "Accounting for Current Assets." Harvard Business School Background Note 193-048, September 1992. (Revised September 2004.)
- June 1992 (Revised September 2004)
- Background Note
Introduction to Accounting Records
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
An introduction to the vocabulary and methodology of bookkeeping and accounting records.
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Keywords:
Accounting
Bruns, William J., Jr. "Introduction to Accounting Records." Harvard Business School Background Note 192-153, June 1992. (Revised September 2004.)
- June 2005
- Tutorial
Prematriculation Financial Accounting Tutorial/Module
By: David F. Hawkins, Paul M. Healy and Ratna G. Sarkar
The Financial Accounting course is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of financial accounting in a management context. The course describes the business activities for Global Grocer, a small retail franchise specializing in gourmet foods and specialty kitchen...
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- August 2008
- Article
The Implications of Unverifiable Fair-value Accounting: Evidence from the Political Economy of Goodwill Accounting
By: Karthik Ramanna
I study the evolution of SFAS 142, which uses unverifiable fair-value estimates to account for acquired goodwill. I find evidence consistent with the FASB issuing SFAS 142 in response to political pressure over its proposal to abolish pooling accounting. The result is...
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Keywords:
Accounting;
Fair Values;
Politics;
Standard Setting;
Fair Value Accounting;
Goodwill Accounting;
Government Legislation;
Agency Theory
Ramanna, Karthik. "The Implications of Unverifiable Fair-value Accounting: Evidence from the Political Economy of Goodwill Accounting." Journal of Accounting & Economics 45, nos. 2-3 (August 2008): 253–281. (Winner of the Elsevier JAE 2008 Best Paper Prize. Winner of the American Accounting Association FARS Best Dissertation Award. Presented at the 2006 Journal of Accounting & Economics Conference.)
- August 2009
- Article
Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer
By: John Beshears and Katherine L. Milkman
We study the effect of small windfalls on consumer spending decisions by comparing the purchases online grocery customers make when redeeming $10-off coupons with the purchases they make without coupons. Controlling for customer fixed effects and other variables, we...
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Keywords:
Mental Accounting;
Windfalls;
Marginal Propensity To Consume;
Coupons;
Marketing Communications;
Consumer Behavior;
Accounting;
Cognition and Thinking;
Retail Industry
Beshears, John, and Katherine L. Milkman. "Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 71, no. 2 (August 2009): 384–394.
- July–August 2023
- Article
Accounting for Carbon Offsets
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna and Marc Roston
Markets for carbon trading function poorly, and many traded offsets do not actually perform as promised. Without robust protocols for monitoring offsets and in the absence of proper accounting mechanisms, market-based approaches to reducing atmospheric GHG will be...
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Kaplan, Robert S., Karthik Ramanna, and Marc Roston. "Accounting for Carbon Offsets." Harvard Business Review 101, no. 4 (July–August 2023): 126–137.
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Accounting Hall of Fame
- May 2005 (Revised May 2006)
- Background Note
Accounting for Asset-Backed Securitization
Introduces the basic concept of asset securitization and the accounting for these transactions.
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Miller, Gregory S., and Jacob Cohen. "Accounting for Asset-Backed Securitization." Harvard Business School Background Note 105-077, May 2005. (Revised May 2006.)
- April 1980
- Case
Dilemma of an Accountant
Daniel Potter receives a boost in his young career as a CPA by being specially placed on a particularly important assignment. He and his boss, who is known both for his accounting acumen and his autocratic manner, come into direct conflict over the evaluation and...
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Matthews, John B., Jr., and Laura L. Nash. "Dilemma of an Accountant." Harvard Business School Case 380-185, April 1980.
- December 1999 (Revised November 2010)
- Background Note
Inflation Accounting and Analysis
By: David F. Hawkins
Describes alternative approaches to accounting for business activities during periods of inflation. Presents hints and techniques for analyzing financial statements during inflationary periods. A rewritten version of an earlier note.
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Hawkins, David F. "Inflation Accounting and Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 100-063, December 1999. (Revised November 2010.)
- August 1997
- Background Note
Accounting for Manufacturing Companies
By: Srikant M. Datar
The accounting for a manufacturing company is examined, including the flow of costs from raw materials to work in process to finished goods and the distribution between an inventoriable or product cost and a noninventoriable or period cost.
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Keywords:
Cost Accounting;
Product;
Cost;
Distribution;
Accrual Accounting;
Accounting;
Manufacturing Industry
Datar, Srikant M. "Accounting for Manufacturing Companies." Harvard Business School Background Note 198-019, August 1997.
- 9 AM – 9:01 AM EDT, 16 Oct 2019
- HBS Online
HBS Online Financial Accounting
Learn how managers, Wall Street analysts, and entrepreneurs use an understanding of accounting to unlock critical insights from financial statements and drive strategic decision making.
Program Dates: October 16, 2019 - December 11, 2019
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- 9 AM – 10 AM EST, 09 Jan 2019
- HBS Online
HBS Online Financial Accounting
Learn how managers, Wall Street analysts, and entrepreneurs use an understanding of accounting to unlock critical insights from financial statements and drive strategic decision making.
Program Dates: January 9, 2019 - March 6, 2019
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- June 2021 (Revised February 2023)
- Case
MicroStrategy: Accounting for Cryptocurrency
By: Jonas Heese and Annelena Lobb
On February 15, 2021, Alina Moss, an analyst who covered the technology company MicroStrategy, pondered a rise in MicroStrategy’s share price. Moss had dialed into the company earnings call. When it ended, Moss had more questions than answers. MicroStrategy had...
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Keywords:
Cryptocurrency;
Share Price;
Electronic Commerce;
Intangible Assets;
Assets;
Accounting;
Financial Statements;
Financial Management;
Financial Reporting;
Analytics and Data Science;
E-commerce
Heese, Jonas, and Annelena Lobb. "MicroStrategy: Accounting for Cryptocurrency." Harvard Business School Case 121-066, June 2021. (Revised February 2023.)
- November 1991 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
Accounting for Frequent Fliers
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
Airline frequent flier programs offer members the opportunity to earn free flights by accumulating mileage. Accounting and reporting the obligations of airlines and the cost of frequent flier programs raises difficult measurement issues. In 1991, the U.S. Securities...
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Bruns, William J., Jr. "Accounting for Frequent Fliers." Harvard Business School Case 192-040, November 1991. (Revised June 1993.)
- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 20 Mar 2019
- HBS Online
HBS Online Financial Accounting
Learn how managers, Wall Street analysts, and entrepreneurs use an understanding of accounting to unlock critical insights from financial statements and drive strategic decision making.
Program Dates: March 20, 2019 - May 15, 2019
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- Article
Causal Inference in Accounting Research
By: Ian D. Gow, David F. Larcker and Peter C. Reiss
This paper examines the approaches accounting researchers use to draw causal inferences using observational (or non-experimental) data. The vast majority of accounting research papers draws causal inferences notwithstanding the well-known difficulties in doing so with...
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Gow, Ian D., David F. Larcker, and Peter C. Reiss. "Causal Inference in Accounting Research." Journal of Accounting Research 54, no. 2 (May 2016): 477–523.
- 2007
- Book
Management Accounting
By: Anthony A Atkinson, R. S. Kaplan, Ella Mae Matsumura and S. Mark Young