Cases in Financial Reporting, International Edition

I: Introductory Cases.
1. Dublin Small Animal Clinic.
2. Verona Springs Mineral Water.
3. Holton-Central Chairs.
4. Chang Medical Electronics.
5. Janet O'Brien.
6. Catrike.
II: Governance and Regulation.
1. Xerox.
2. Microsoft Corp: Financial Reporting Issues.
3. Beazer Homes USA.
4. Corporate Governance at IBM and Google.
5. Chrysler.
6. General Growth Properties.
III: Financial Reporting, Domestic.
1. Intel Corporation: Inventory Write-downs.
2. Lease Restatements in the Restaurant Industry.
3. Bethlehem Steel.
4. Revenue Recognition (A).
5. Revenue Recognition (B).
6. New Century Financial Corp. 7. Sirius XM.
8. Dell, Inc.: Financial Restatements.
9. Retiree Benefits at Boeing.
10. Carton Medical Products.
IV: Financial Reporting, International.
1. Impairments in the Recession of 2008-2009.
2. Depreciation in the Semiconductor Industry.
3. Thomson (A).
4. Thomson (B).
5. Mitchells & Butlers.
6. Barclays' acquires Lehman.
7. SAP: Financial Reporting Methods.
V: Financial Statement Analysis.
1. Harley-Davidson, Inc. (A).
2. Harley-Davidson, Inc. (B).
3. Arby's Acquisition of Wendy's.
4. General Motors Corp.
5. Employee Stock Options at Cisco.
6. Merrill Lynch, Inc.
7. Apple, Inc.: Retrospective Adoption, Revenue Recognition Rules.
VI: Valuation.
1. Knowles Electronics, Inc.
2. Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
3. Inbev.
4. Sunbelt Beverage.
5. Koss.
6. Asher Associates.
VII: Background Notes.
1. Note on Fair Value Reporting.
2. Note on Business Combinations.
3. Note on Discounted Cash Flows.
4. Note on Bonds.
5. Note on Retiree Benefits.
6. Note on Business Valuation.
7 Note on Ratio Analysis.
VIII: Short Excel-based Cases.
1. Discounted Cash Flows.
2. Revenue Recognition (A).
3. Revenue Recognition (B).
4. Impairment.
5. Bonds.
6. Leases.
7. Investment Securities.
8. Retiree Benefits.
9. Securitization.
10. Valuation.

Sandretto, Michael
Michael J. Sandretto is a lecturer at the University of Illinois, a valuation consultant, and an economic damages expert witness. He is also president and co-founder of Investments Analytics, Inc., a firm that develops valuation software. Sandretto earned his doctorate at University of Illinois and was corporate controller of Knowles Electronics in Chicago. He has taught courses in financial reporting, financial statement analysis, cost and managerial accounting, and a wide range of executive development classes, including those for four of the five largest Chinese banks. He has written more than 100 cases since leaving Harvard and has thoroughly tested them in his classes.