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- 2017
- Module Note
Financial Accounting Reading: Analyzing Financial Statements
By: Suraj Srinivasan and V.G. Narayanan
Core Curriculum Readings in Financial Accounting cover the fundamental concepts in financial accounting. Many Readings include videos and Interactive Illustrations to help students master complex concepts.
This reading helps students understand that financial... View Details
This reading helps students understand that financial... View Details
Srinivasan, Suraj, and V.G. Narayanan. "Financial Accounting Reading: Analyzing Financial Statements." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing Module Note 5056, 2017.
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
The straight truth about government accountability
- March 2011
- Article
Accounting Scholarship That Advances Professional Knowledge and Practice
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on asset prices, financial reports and disclosures, laboratory experiments, and surveys of practice. The research has studied the interface among accounting information, capital markets, standard setters, and... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Asset Pricing; Risk Management; Surveys; Capital Markets; Measurement and Metrics; Valuation; Fair Value Accounting; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Financial Reporting
Kaplan, Robert S. "Accounting Scholarship That Advances Professional Knowledge and Practice." Accounting Review 86, no. 2 (March 2011): 367–383.
- 26 Jul 2020
- News
DOL’S ESG proposal would hurt retirement accounts
- July 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Exercise
Accounting for Assets at Tesla
By: Paul M. Healy and Marshal Herrmann
Healy, Paul M., and Marshal Herrmann. "Accounting for Assets at Tesla." Harvard Business School Exercise 121-009, July 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
- Article
Cash Take-Overs and Accounting Valuations
By: Russell Taussig and Samuel Hayes
Taussig, Russell, and Samuel Hayes. "Cash Take-Overs and Accounting Valuations." Accounting Review 43, no. 1 (January 1968). (Reprinted in Johnson and Fischer, Readings in Contemporary Financial Management,
Scott, Foresman and Co., 1969.)
- March 2015
- Teaching Note
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
By: Julie Battilana and Felicia Khan
- November 2010 (Revised December 2015)
- Background Note
Spans of Control and Accountability
By: Eugene F. Soltes
Overview of Spans of Control and Accountability. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design
Soltes, Eugene F. "Spans of Control and Accountability." Harvard Business School Background Note 111-066, November 2010. (Revised December 2015.)
- 13 Dec 2022
- Video
Balancing Profitability and Social Accountability
- Article
Evolution of Management Accounting
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Cost Accounting
Kaplan, Robert S. "Evolution of Management Accounting." Accounting Review 59, no. 3 (July 1984): 390–418.
- September 2010 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Accounting for the iPhone at Apple Inc.
By: Francois Brochet, Krishna G. Palepu and Lauren Barley
Apple initially recognized revenue associated with its iPhone product using subscription accounting. However, in 2008, the company started providing non-GAAP supplemental numbers where substantially all of the revenue was recognized upfront. Market participants'... View Details
Brochet, Francois, Krishna G. Palepu, and Lauren Barley. "Accounting for the iPhone at Apple Inc." Harvard Business School Case 111-003, September 2010. (Revised September 2013.)
- February 2007
- Tutorial
HBS Financial Accounting Tutorial
By: David F. Hawkins and Paul M. Healy
Keywords: Accounting
- May 2005
- Teaching Note
Pre-matriculation Accounting Tutorial (TN)
By: David F. Hawkins and Paul M. Healy
Keywords: Accounting
- April 1997
- Article
1997 CFA Level I and II Accounting Review Package: Selected Accounting Bulletins
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Accounting
Hawkins, David F. "1997 CFA Level I and II Accounting Review Package: Selected Accounting Bulletins." Accounting Bulletin, no. 49 (April 1997).
- February 1998
- Article
1998 CFA Level I and II Accounting Review Package: Selected Accounting Bulletins
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Accounting
Hawkins, David F. "1998 CFA Level I and II Accounting Review Package: Selected Accounting Bulletins." Accounting Bulletin, no. 61 (February 1998).
- 29 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
My Concerns About Learning Accounting at HBS
Many incoming students express their nervousness to the Admissions team around accounting and finance classes if they do not have experience in those areas. In reality, students at HBS come from all different backgrounds and they do not... View Details
- 2012
- Working Paper
A Framework for Research on Corporate Accountability Reporting
By: Karthik Ramanna
This paper provides an accounting-based conceptual framing of the phenomenon of corporate accountability reporting. Such reporting is seen as arising from a delegator's (e.g., a citizenry) demand to hold a delegate (e.g., shareholders) to account. When effective,... View Details
Keywords: Integrated Corporate Reporting; For-Profit Firms; Framework; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Research; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues
Ramanna, Karthik. "A Framework for Research on Corporate Accountability Reporting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-021, September 2011. (Revised July 2012, October 2012.)
- August 2017 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
Accounting for Nuclear Power Provisions at RWE
By: Paul Healy and Jonas Heese
In early 2016, RWE, a utility that operates nuclear power plants in Germany, came under scrutiny from regulators and the media over the adequacy of its provisions for costs of decommissioning and dismantling (D&D) its nuclear power plants. Accounting standards required... View Details
Keywords: Liabilities; Provisions For Long-term Obligations; Discounting; Accounting; Energy Generation; Energy Industry; Germany
Healy, Paul, and Jonas Heese. "Accounting for Nuclear Power Provisions at RWE." Harvard Business School Case 118-013, August 2017. (Revised December 2017.)
- November 1992 (Revised April 1993)
- Background Note
Accounting for Indirect Costs
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
An introduction to processes by which indirect costs are first assigned to cost centers and then assigned to products or services produced. A simple schematic illustrates how expenditures are assigned to service centers or production centers, service centers to... View Details
Bruns, William J., Jr. "Accounting for Indirect Costs." Harvard Business School Background Note 193-070, November 1992. (Revised April 1993.)