Accountability - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Aug 2014
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An Insider's Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Keywords: international deal; China; Internet; Yahoo; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

10 Dec 2012
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Harvard Business School's Robert Eccles to Chair Sustainability Accounting Standards Board

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Accounting & Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2024 Jonas Heese : Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 2024 Review of Accounting Studies... View Details

February 1997
Article

Mexico Going Highly Inflationary for FAS 52 Accounting

By: David F. Hawkins

Keywords: Accounting; Standards; Mexico

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April 2011
Teaching Note

Accounting for the iPhone at Apple, Inc. (TN)

By: Francois Brochet and Krishna G. Palepu

Teaching Note for 111003. View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Revenue; Corporate Disclosure; Telecommunications Industry

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April 2002
Teaching Note

Accounting for the Intel Pentium Chip Flaw TN

By: Gregory S. Miller and V.G. Narayanan

Teaching Note for (9-101-072). View Details

Keywords: Computer Industry

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Accounting Standards and the Globalisation of Indian Businesses

By: Gregory S. Miller and V.G. Narayanan

Keywords: Standards; Globalization; Business Ventures; India

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1986
Other Unpublished Work

Block Grants and the Accountability of Capital Spending

By: Dutch Leonard and Howard L. Frant

Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Capital; Spending

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August 1980 (Revised June 1985)
Background Note

Management Accounting, Part II: Manufacturing Cost Accounting Systems

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1999
Other Unpublished Work

Demand for and use of Global Account Management

Keywords: Management; Accounting; Global Range

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March 2013
Article

Why 'Fair Value' Is the Rule: How a Controversial Accounting Approach Gained Support

By: Karthik Ramanna

For the past two decades, fair-value accounting—the practice of measuring assets and liabilities at estimates of their current values—has been on the ascent. This marks a major departure from the centuries-old tradition of keeping books at historical cost. It also has... View Details

Keywords: Fair Value; FASB; Finance; Politics; Financial History; Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Reporting; Accounting Industry; Accounting Industry; United States

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April 1985
Article

The Effect of Bonus Schemes on Accounting Decisions

By: Paul M. Healy

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Accounting; Decision Making

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2019
Working Paper

Does Public Ownership and Accountability Increase Diversity? Evidence from IPOs

By: Rembrand Koning and John-Paul Ferguson

Does public ownership improve employment diversity? Organizational researchers theorize that increased transparency to regulators and the public should lead firms to conform to legal and social norms—but that social closure and decoupling should preserve the status... View Details

Keywords: IPO; Initial Public Offering; Employees; Diversity; Gender; Race; Entrepreneurship; United States

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12 Oct 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer

Keywords: by Katherine L. Milkman, John Beshears, Todd Rogers & Max H. Bazerman

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Of Measurement and Mission: Accounting for Performance in Non-Governmental Organizations

By: Debora L. Spar

As members of civil society NGOs would seem to have a built-in proclivity towards representation: towards working on behalf of some group of people, or toward some specific goal. Yet in practice such moments of accountability are rare. Unlike other social agents,... View Details