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  • 28 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

more balanced and comprehensive if management believes that directors might seek an independent opinion. It should be noted that there is a precedent for providing directors with independent funding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman
  • 03 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 3

auditor for both the financial and nonfinancial information contained in the integrated report, but these are covered by separate assurance opinions. Among the challenges of providing an integrated audit is getting the internal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 19

recently faced a corruption enforcement action, employ a Big Four audit firm, and have a higher percentage of independent directors. Controlling for these effects, we find that firms with abnormally low anticorruption efforts have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

of IFRS Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten Abstract If the differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2011 (Revised July 2011)
  • Case

Elizabeth Jacobs: Price-Earnings Ratios and Employee Stock Option Grants

By: David F. Hawkins
Analyst questions the value of accounting measurement of earnings per share and stock option costs for equity valuation purposes. View Details
Keywords: Earnings Management; Business Earnings; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Stock Shares; Employee Ownership; Stock Options; Equity; Accounting Audits; Valuation; Profit Sharing; Accounting Industry
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  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

their ongoing relationships with suppliers; and the gender diversity of their audit teams. Providing the first comprehensive and systematic findings on supply chain monitoring, our study identifies previously overlooked transaction costs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

Results from a Natural Field Experiment in California By: Levine, David I., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—For companies with strong internal occupational safety and health auditing programs, OSHA inspections might seem a formality that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

This wasn't a challenge when it came to the oil, but gas was another matter. "Oil was always what buttered everybody's bread," he says, but no one seemed to care much about natural gas. In fact, only one Unocal field in North America had passed a natural gas... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
  • October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

Accounting Red Flags or Red Herrings at Catalent? (A)

By: Joseph Pacelli, ZeSean Ali and Tom Quinn
Fund manager Janet Curie asked for a recommendation about the pharmaceutical company Catalent. The company seemed like a solid investment. However, a pair of research reports issued over the previous two months complicated this narrative. GlassHouse Research, a short... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Budgets and Budgeting; Earnings Management; Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Revenue Recognition; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Government Legislation; Conflict of Interests; Announcements; Blogs; Debates; Investment; Trust; Business and Shareholder Relations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Accounting Industry; United States
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  • 21 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

not Lehman Brothers? Ironically, Congress in 1991 passed a statute establishing specific procedures (including stating a rationale) to be followed before a bank could be rescued and mandating an after-the-fact audit by the Comptroller... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

First, information of the sort that would allow shareholders to police corporate behavior on issues, such as the use of child labor, is not easily accessible. Although some companies, such as Royal Dutch Shell, have started to publish View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 19, 2016

leading the development of an auditing and verification framework for the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (the VPs), a set of commitments embraced by most of the world’s largest extractive companies. The case provides... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

intervened ruthlessly (and sometimes unfairly) when he saw profits suffer. After thirty years, when his little seventy-person firm became one of the largest industrial operations and employers in Germany, he again established a central View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

led to widespread VAT adoption worldwide, but there is surprisingly little evidence. I find that the paper trail acts as a substitute to a firm's own audit risk. A message announcing increased tax enforcement has a much smaller effect on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

financial-statement users come to outweigh institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology) that make IFRS adoption costly. We find that perceived network benefits increase the degree of IFRS harmonization among countries, although... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

for Auditor Independence Yet? Authors:M.H. Bazerman and D.A. Moore Publication:Accounting, Organizations and Society (in press) Abstract Well before the collapse of Enron and Arthur Andersen, we argued that the auditing system had been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

We investigate these research questions in the context of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Audit Policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-021.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsGianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

exhibit a decline in information asymmetry, with the decline increasing as EV reporting evolves to address methodological deficiencies and to permit more comparability across firms. The decrease in information asymmetry is contingent on providing an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

sustainability. For example, the CEO of Ujjivan, Samit Ghosh, decides to strengthen the Audit Team and implements new loan products. Purchase this supplement: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show when the owner prefers to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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