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  • 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
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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

  • 16 Jan 2014
  • News

The straight truth about government accountability

  • August 2018 (Revised April 2019)
  • Case

Fair Value Accounting at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (A)

By: Jonas Heese, Suraj Srinivasan, Francois Brochet and Christine Johnson
In May 2018, Berkshire Hathaway announced an unprecedented loss of more than $1 billion for the first quarter of 2018. Warren Buffett blamed this loss on the new accounting rules for equity securities which he criticized. In the case ‘Fair Value Accounting at Berkshire... View Details
Keywords: Equity Securities; FASB; Fair Value Accounting; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Services Industry
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Heese, Jonas, Suraj Srinivasan, Francois Brochet, and Christine Johnson. "Fair Value Accounting at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 119-030, August 2018. (Revised April 2019.)
  • 07 Oct 2019
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Weighting accounts for impact

  • 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
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Healy, Paul, and Jonas Heese. "Accounting for Nuclear Power Provisions at RWE." Harvard Business School Case 118-013, August 2017. (Revised December 2017.)
  • 26 Jul 2020
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DOL’S ESG proposal would hurt retirement accounts

  • October 2010 (Revised July 2013)
  • Case

ActionAid International: Globalizing Governance, Localizing Accountability

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and Rachel Gordon
As a global NGO working in 45 countries, ActionAid International aims to eradicate poverty by addressing its underlying causes such as injustice and inequality. This case follows a series of radical transformations implemented by the organization's CEO, Ramesh Singh—a... View Details
Keywords: Local Range; Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Nonprofit Organizations; Power and Influence; Johannesburg; London
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Ebrahim, Alnoor, and Rachel Gordon. "ActionAid International: Globalizing Governance, Localizing Accountability." Harvard Business School Case 311-004, October 2010. (Revised July 2013.)
  • 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
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Revenue Recognition; Standards; Technology Industry; United States
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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.)
  • 03 Aug 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Accounting Rookie Job Market: A Practitioner’s Guide

Keywords: by Ethan Rouen; Accounting
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Evolution of Management Accounting

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Cost Accounting
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Kaplan, Robert S. "Evolution of Management Accounting." Accounting Review 59, no. 3 (July 1984): 390–418.
  • 2020
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A Preliminary Framework for Product Impact-Weighted Accounts

By: George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
While there has been significant progress in the measurement of an organization’s environmental and social impacts from its operations, metrics to evaluate the impact of products once they come to market lag far behind. In this paper, we provide a framework for... View Details
Keywords: Social Impact; Product Life Cycle; Environment; Sustainability; Measurement; Metrics; Impact Investing; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Reporting; Product; Environmental Sustainability; Measurement and Metrics; Framework; Financial Statements
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Serafeim, George, and Katie Trinh. "A Framework for Product Impact-Weighted Accounts." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-076, January 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
  • 2010
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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: Accounting; Business Education; Information; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Measurement and Metrics; Business Processes; Performance Improvement; Practice
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Kaplan, Robert S. "Accounting Scholarship that Advances Professional Knowledge and Practice." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-043, October 2010.
  • February 2007
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HBS Financial Accounting Tutorial

By: David F. Hawkins and Paul M. Healy
Keywords: Accounting
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"HBS Financial Accounting Tutorial." Harvard Business School Tutorial 107-707, February 2007.
  • May 2005
  • Teaching Note

Pre-matriculation Accounting Tutorial (TN)

By: David F. Hawkins and Paul M. Healy
Keywords: Accounting
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Hawkins, David F., and Paul M. Healy. "Pre-matriculation Accounting Tutorial (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 105-074, May 2005.
  • June 2020 (Revised February 2021)
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Accounting for Leases at American Airlines (A)

By: Jonas Heese, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Julia Kelley
In March 2020, as coronavirus reduced demand for air travel, an analyst was forecasting American Airlines’ (American’s) first quarter financial results. To develop a forecast, she needed to familiarize herself with Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2016-02, “Leases... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Finance; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leasing; Accounting Industry; Accounting Industry; North and Central America; United States
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Heese, Jonas, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos, and Julia Kelley. "Accounting for Leases at American Airlines (A)." Harvard Business School Case 120-069, June 2020. (Revised February 2021.)
  • 24 Sep 2018
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How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

Medical records at a healthcare clinic in Lascahobas, Haiti. Ryan McBain A few years ago, the Boston-based nonprofit health care organization Partners in Health (PIH) set out to quantify the cost of primary care for its patients--specifically those who visited the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • November 1992 (Revised April 1993)
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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
Keywords: Accounting; Cost
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Bruns, William J., Jr. "Accounting for Indirect Costs." Harvard Business School Background Note 193-070, November 1992. (Revised April 1993.)
  • winter 1990
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Accounting for Technology Costs

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Accounting; Information Technology; Cost
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Kaplan, Robert S. "Accounting for Technology Costs." Enterprise (winter 1990): 8–12.
  • 16 Jul 2020
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Accounting for Real Change

Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969) Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969) In an opinion piece in the Financial Times, “Crisis Offers a Chance to Rewrite Accounting to Include Impact,” Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969) writes that the global pandemic is creating a new... View Details
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