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...University also sold more than $600,000 worth of stock in two banks which were lending money to the South African government. But University officials claimed that the sale was purely financial and that one of its investment firms??€”not the University—had initiated the action...
...faced with this perplexing choice of how to characterize your income depending on the audience, corporations do find themselves in this curious situation. Dual books for accounting and tax purposes are standard in corporate America and, judging from recent analysis, are the province of much creative decision-making. Firms??€™ characterizations of income to investors and to tax authorities have increasingly diverged during the 1990s for reasons that we still don’t fully understand. While the overstatement and manipulation of accounting earnings by firms has come to light, there is growing concern over a parallel development...
...faced with this perplexing choice of how to characterize your income depending on the audience, corporations do find themselves in this curious situation. Dual books for accounting and tax purposes are standard in corporate America and, judging from recent analysis, are the province of much creative decision-making. Firms??€™ characterizations of income to investors and to tax authorities have increasingly diverged during the 1990s for reasons that we still don’t fully understand. While the overstatement and manipulation of accounting earnings by firms has come to light, there is growing concern over a parallel development...
HBS’ case-study teaching method—which relies heavily on real-world examples from major firms??€”mandates that faculty conduct research on business all over the world in order to examine the multitude of situations that graduates will face in the course of their careers...