CASES
Financial Reporting (selected):
- Accounting for Toyota’s Recalls (with J. Kennedy) -- how should management report the potential financial implications of a massive product recall?
- Apple’s iPhone Revenue Recognition Strategy -- revenue recognition; forecasting; management’s choice of accounting policies
- Coke vs. Pepsi (with P. Dukes and J. Kennedy) -- adjusting Coke’s financial statement for ‘aggressive’ accounting decisions
- ExxonMobil: the Politics of Profit (with J. Kennedy) -- financial statement analysis; inventory valuation; management’s choice of accounting policies
- iRobot’s Intellectual Property (with J. Kennedy) -- accounting for research and development costs
- Plum Creek Timber and Brookfield Timberlands (with J. Kennedy) -- implications of IFRS for the U.S. timber industry
- Southwest Airlines (A) -- accounting for leases
- Southwest Airlines (B) -- accounting for income taxes
- WaMu's Option-ARM Strategy (with J. Kennedy) -- evaluating the bank before its 2008 implosion – does financial reporting reveal the problems?
Managerial Accounting (selected):
- Microsoft’s ‘Red-ink’ Xbox -- modeling the profitability of a project
- Robot Technologies (A) (with L. Tanlu) -- incremental analysis and cash budgeting in a financial crisis
