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      How to Read Financial Statements: A Beginner’s Guide | HBS Online
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      • January 2021
      • Case

      “GEnron?” Markopolos versus General Electric (A)

      By: Jonas Heese and David Lane
      In August 2019, Harry Markopolos—the forensic accountant known for uncovering Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme—alleged that General Electric had committed accounting fraud totaling $38 billion, coining the term “GEnron” for perceived similarities with the 2001 accounting...  View Details
      Keywords: financial statements; Communication; Energy; financial Condition; Insurance; Performance; Planning; Business And Shareholder Relations; Risk And Uncertainty; Value; Insurance Industry; financial Services Industry; Energy Industry
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      Heese, Jonas, and David Lane. "“GEnron?” Markopolos versus General Electric (A)." Harvard Business School Case 121-005, January 2021.
      • August 2020
      • Case

      Luckin Coffee (A): Caffeine-fueled Growth?

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
      This case describes the founding of Chinese coffee chain Luckin Coffee in 2017 and its path to surpassing Starbucks as the largest coffee chain in China (by number of stores) in 2019. Unlike Starbucks stores, which were designed to be welcoming “third places” for...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Business Earnings; Cost; Cost Management; financial statements; financial Condition; financial Management; Stocks; Profit; Revenue; Price; Food; Business History; Employment; Brands And Branding; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Business Strategy; Expansion; Competitive Strategy; Food And Beverage Industry; Technology Industry; Asia; China
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Karen Elterman. "Luckin Coffee (A): Caffeine-fueled Growth?" Harvard Business School Case 721-370, August 2020.
      • August 2020
      • Supplement

      Luckin Coffee (B): Revelations of Fraud

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
      This case describes revelations of fraud at Luckin Coffee, beginning with an anonymous report in January 2020 and continuing with the company’s admission in April 2020 that it had inflated its revenues by 2.2 billion RMB ($310 million), almost half its reported...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Earnings; financial statements; financial Condition; Stocks; financial Management; Profit; Revenue; Price; Food; Lawfulness; Crime And Corruption; Food And Beverage Industry; Technology Industry; Asia; China
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Karen Elterman. "Luckin Coffee (B): Revelations of Fraud." Harvard Business School Supplement 721-371, August 2020.
      • June 2020 (Revised July 2020)
      • Case

      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; Air Transportation 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 July 2020.)
      • June 2020
      • Case

      Accounting for Leases at American Airlines (B)

      By: Jonas Heese, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Julia Kelley
      This is a supplement to the “Accounting for Leases at American Airlines (A)” case. The (B) case describes American Airlines’ financial results for the first quarter of 2020, as well as the continuing effects of coronavirus on the airline industry.  View Details
      Keywords: Accounting; financial Reporting; financial statements; Finance; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms; Governing And Advisory Boards; Health Pandemics; Accounting Industry; Air Transportation 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 (B)." Harvard Business School Case 120-113, June 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      A 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; 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.)
      • 2019
      • Article

      Time Series Experiments and Causal Estimands: Exact Randomization Tests and Trading

      By: Iavor I Bojinov and Neil Shephard
      We define causal estimands for experiments on single time series, extending the potential outcome framework to dealing with temporal data. Our approach allows the estimation of a broad class of these estimands and exact randomization based p-values for testing causal...  View Details
      Keywords: Causality; Nonparametric; Potential Outcomes; Trading Costs; Mathematical Methods
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      Bojinov, Iavor I., and Neil Shephard. "Time Series Experiments and Causal Estimands: Exact Randomization Tests and Trading." Journal of the American Statistical Association 114, no. 528 (2019): 1665–1682.
      • October 2019
      • Supplement

      Impax Laboratories: Executing Accretive Acquisitions (B)

      By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
      Explores events after Impax announced the acquisition of a portfolio of generic pharmaceutical products from Teva in June 2016.  View Details
      Keywords: financial Reporting; financial statements; Mergers And Acquisitions; Capital Structure; financial Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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      Esty, Benjamin C., and Daniel Fisher. "Impax Laboratories: Executing Accretive Acquisitions (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 220-031, October 2019.
      • October 2019
      • Case

      Impax Laboratories: Executing Accretive Acquisitions (A)

      By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
      Impax Laboratories was a technology-based pharmaceutical company that used a “dual platform” strategy to sell both generic and branded treatments. While Impax had grown organically for most of its history, it was beginning to use major acquisitions for growth. In the...  View Details
      Keywords: financial Reporting; financial statements; Mergers And Acquisitions; Capital Structure; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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      Esty, Benjamin C., and Daniel Fisher. "Impax Laboratories: Executing Accretive Acquisitions (A)." Harvard Business School Case 220-030, October 2019.
      • October 2019
      • Supplement

      Impax Laboratories: Executing Accretive Transactions (A)

      By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
      Impax Laboratories was a technology-based pharmaceutical company that used a “dual platform” strategy to sell both generic and branded treatments. While Impax had grown organically for most of its history, it was beginning to use major acquisitions for growth. In the...  View Details
      Keywords: financial Reporting; financial statements; Mergers And Acquisitions; Capital Structure; financial Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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      Esty, Benjamin C., and Daniel Fisher. "Impax Laboratories: Executing Accretive Transactions (A)." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 220-710, October 2019.
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Intelligent Design of Inclusive Growth Strategies

      By: Robert S. Kaplan, George Serafeim and Eduardo Tugendhat
      Improving corporate engagement with society, as advocated in the Business Roundtable’s 2019 statement, should not be viewed as a zero-sum proposition where attention to new stakeholders detracts from delivering shareholder value. Corporate programs for sustainable and...  View Details
      Keywords: Inclusion; Sustainability; Performance Measures; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Strategy; Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Business And Stakeholder Relations
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      Kaplan, Robert S., George Serafeim, and Eduardo Tugendhat. "Intelligent Design of Inclusive Growth Strategies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-050, October 2019.
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      The Effect of Systems of Management Controls on Misreporting

      By: Aishwarrya Deore, Susanna Gallani and Ranjani Krishnan
      Organizations use systems of controls to encourage goal congruent employee behavior. Some control instruments within the system (e.g., cultural controls) guide employees and align their behavioral choices with organizational values, while other instruments (e.g.,...  View Details
      Keywords: Directing Controls; Misreporting; Mission Statements; Participative Budgeting; Stewardship Theory; Systems Of Management Controls; Management Systems; Governance Controls; Mission And Purpose; financial Reporting
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      Deore, Aishwarrya, Susanna Gallani, and Ranjani Krishnan. "The Effect of Systems of Management Controls on Misreporting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-053, October 2019.
      • October 2019 (Revised August 2020)
      • Case

      Souqalmal: The Choice Is Yours (A)

      By: V.G. Narayanan and Alpana Thapar
      This case describes how Ambareen Musa, Founder and CEO of Souqalmal, a Dubai-based online comparison aggregator of banking and insurance products launched her business in 2011 and rapidly grew it over next couple of years. However, by 2017, the Mauritian entrepreneur...  View Details
      Keywords: Unit Economics; Finance; Accounting; Competitive Strategy; financial statements; Insurance Industry; Middle East
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      Narayanan, V.G., and Alpana Thapar. "Souqalmal: The Choice Is Yours (A)." Harvard Business School Case 120-028, October 2019. (Revised August 2020.)
      • 2019
      • White Paper

      Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy

      By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing
      Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed...  View Details
      Keywords: Impact-weighted Accounts; Iwai; Background; Economic Systems; Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Measurement And Metrics; financial statements
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      Serafeim, George, T. Robert Zochowski, and Jennifer Downing. "Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy." White Paper, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, September 2019.
      • 2019
      • Other Unpublished Work

      Mexico's Financial Risks: Solving Pemex for a Solvent Mexico

      By: Laura Alfaro, Augusto de la Torre, Guillermo Calvo, Roque Benjamin Fernandez, Pablo Guidotti, Paulo Leme, Enrique Mendoza, Guillermo Perry, Carmen Reinhart and Liliana Rojas-Suarez
      Keywords: Financial Risk; Finance; Economics; Mexico; Latin America
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      Alfaro, Laura, Augusto de la Torre, Guillermo Calvo, Roque Benjamin Fernandez, Pablo Guidotti, Paulo Leme, Enrique Mendoza, Guillermo Perry, Carmen Reinhart, and Liliana Rojas-Suarez. "Mexico's Financial Risks: Solving Pemex for a Solvent Mexico." Comité Latinoamericano de Asuntos Financieros (CLAAF) Statement, no. 41, July 2019.
      • December 2018
      • Case

      Bata versus Relaxo—Analyzing Performance

      By: Suraj Srinivasan, Iris Leung and Quinn Pitcher
      Set in 2016, “Bata India versus Relaxo—Analyzing Performance” compares the strategies and financial performance of two Indian footwear companies. Bata India had long been the market leader in footwear in India, but its leading market position was being challenged by...  View Details
      Keywords: Finance; Strategy; Operations; Performance Evaluation; financial statements; Analysis; Apparel And Accessories Industry
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      Srinivasan, Suraj, Iris Leung, and Quinn Pitcher. "Bata versus Relaxo—Analyzing Performance." Harvard Business School Case 119-050, December 2018.
      • 2018
      • Other Teaching and Training Material

      Financial Accounting Reading: Liabilities

      By: Suraj Srinivasan
      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 is a standalone reading designed to enhance...  View Details
      Keywords: Financial Accounting; Liabilities; financial statements
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      Srinivasan, Suraj. "Financial Accounting Reading: Liabilities." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 5079, 2018.
      • 2018
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      Financial Accounting Reading: Shareholders' Equity

      By: Suraj Srinivasan
      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 is a standalone reading designed to introduce...  View Details
      Keywords: Shareholders' Equity; Accounting; financial statements
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      Srinivasan, Suraj. "Financial Accounting Reading: Shareholders' Equity." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 5075, 2018.
      • August 2018
      • Case

      Tapping Growth at Lord Hobo Brewing Company

      By: Ethan Rouen and Susanna Gallani
      Lord Hobo Brewing Company accounts for its inventory process as it prepares to create its first set of professional financial statements for investors.  View Details
      Keywords: Inventory; Start-ups; Craft Brewing; Investing; Gaap; Brand Management; Accounting; Working Capital; Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Business Startups; Business And Shareholder Relations; Food And Beverage Industry; Boston; New England; United States
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      Rouen, Ethan, and Susanna Gallani. "Tapping Growth at Lord Hobo Brewing Company." Harvard Business School Case 119-028, August 2018.
      • 2018
      • Simulation

      Financial Analysis Simulation: Data Detective

      By: Suraj Srinivasan and V.G. Narayanan
      In this simulation, students learn to identify typical industry characteristics revealed in financial data. Equipped with an interactive and flexible set of tools, students analyze disguised financials and—using their knowledge of operational practices and reasoning...  View Details
      Keywords: Accounting; Financial Analysis; Financial Statements; Financial Accounting; Financial Ratios; Accounting; financial statements; Analysis
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      Srinivasan, Suraj, and V.G. Narayanan. "Financial Analysis Simulation: Data Detective." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Simulation and Teaching Note. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 8742, 2018. Electronic.
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