Publications

March 1998 (Revised October 2015)
Case

Hamptonshire Express

By: V. G. Narayanan and Ananth Raman

Presents a series of problems that face a newspaper publisher, including inventory level, effort level, subsidy for unsold inventory, and commission for sales. Each problem is accompanied by one or more spreadsheets. Students must make various operational decisions. View Details

Keywords: Marketing Channels; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Operations; Problems and Challenges; Decision Making; Sales; Demand and Consumers; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Publishing Industry; United States

February 1998 (Revised September 1998)
Case

Insteel Wire Products: ABM at Andrews

By: V.G. Narayanan and Ratna G. Sarkar

Insteel implements an activity-based costing (ABC) system in 1996. It finds pallet nails to be its most profitable product and decides to expand the number of cells making pallet nails from two to four. A repeat of the ABC study in 1997 shows pallet nails have become... View Details

Keywords: Cost Accounting; Expansion; Resource Allocation; Activity Based Costing and Management

February 1998 (Revised April 2003)
Teaching Note

Colorscope, Inc. TN

Teaching Note for (9-197-040). View Details

December 1996 (Revised February 1998)
Case

Colorscope, Inc.

By: V.G. Narayanan and Joseph Cha

A small company in the graphic arts business faces severe price competition. The company must respond by cutting costs and making process improvements. View Details

Keywords: Cost Management; Price; Business Processes; Performance Improvement; Competition; Fine Arts Industry

June 1996 (Revised March 1997)
Teaching Note

Romeo Engine Plant TN

By: V.G. Narayanan and Amy P. Hutton

Teaching Note for (9-194-032). View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry

November 1995
Technical Note

Analyzing Standard Costs: Technical Note

Explains variance analysis. Concepts of price variance and quantity variance are introduced to analyze prime cost variances. Spending variance and capacity variance are used to analyze overhead variance. Consistent with conducting variance analysis in an activity-based... View Details

Keywords: Cost Accounting; Cost; Analysis

September 1995 (Revised June 2002)
Case

Intel Pentium Chip Controversy (A), The

By: V.G. Narayanan and James D Evans

Following Intel Inc.'s decision to replace flawed Pentium chips, the company faces revenue recognition choices. Events leading up to IBM's decision to halt shipment of computers that have Intel's microprocessor inside and Intel's decision to replace all the flawed... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Revenue Recognition; Computer Industry

September 1995 (Revised May 2002)
Supplement

Intel Pentium Chip Controversy (B), The

By: V.G. Narayanan and James D Evans

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Conflict and Resolution; Computer Industry

spring 1995
Article

Moral Hazard in Repeated Professional Partnership

Keywords: Partners and Partnerships

December 1994
Case

AB SKA (Sweden)

By: David F. Hawkins, V.G. Narayanan and Robert L. Simons

A senior manager faces three accounting and control decisions related to a new R&D project: to expense or capitalize, how to implement management control over the R&D function, and how to use activity-based cost drivers for product costing. View Details

Keywords: Cost Accounting; Management Practices and Processes; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Research and Development; Sweden

spring 1994
Article

Gulf Canada Ltd.

By: V.G. Narayanan and Steve Huddart

Keywords: Energy Industry; Canada

1994
Article

An Analysis of Auditor Liability Rules

Keywords: Accounting Audits

Teaching Interest

Accounting for Managers

I teach financial and managerial accounting to executives and MBA students. View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Managerial Accounting; Financial Accounting

Research Summary

Bad-debts provisioning at banks

I am very interested in studying loan-loss reserves and the provisioning for bad-debts at banks. View Details

Keywords: Loan Evaluation; Bad Debt Expense; Banking Industry

Teaching Interest

Case Method Teaching

I like to offer seminars on Case Method Teaching to professors who would like to improve their case-method teaching. View Details

Keywords: Cases; Education Industry; India

Research Summary

Control in Inter-organizational Settings