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Haskins, Mark E.
Patricia Skeen: Leading Peers
G-0661 | Published December 19, 2022 | 2 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Patricia Skeen, a well-respected full professor at a prestigious business school at a major university, has accepted the role of chairing the school’s important Academic Design and Delivery Committee ... Read More
Balance Sheets: What Is and What If?
Sack, Robert J.; Haskins, Mark E.
C-2458 | Published August 30, 2022 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Leslie Castle, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and accounting firm partner, finds herself in a reflective mode, recollecting several previous conversations with several nonaccountants that had que... Read More
Ratios Tell a Story—2021
C-2456 | Published June 16, 2022 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This short, engaging case challenges students to review a series of corporate financial metrics and match them to one of 13 listed industries. As such, students are to use their intuition and common s... Read More
Creating a Tentative Talent Development Plan
G-0658 | Published December 21, 2021 | 6 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides a three-pronged opportunity to explore a process for establishing an initial talent development plan for a growing and successful company desirous of investing in its existing manag... Read More
The "What If" Effects of an Income Tax Rate Change: A Deferred Tax Focus
Simko, Paul J.; Haskins, Mark E.
C-2448 | Published August 06, 2021 | 10 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A change in the corporate US federal income tax rate necessitates an adjustment to a company’s balance sheet deferred tax account. Stephanie Allen has been tasked with determining the projected effect... Read More
A Client-Engagement/Service Process for Custom Executive Education: Detailing the Details
G-0657 | Published June 29, 2021 | 3 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Rose Cochran, CEO and co-founder of a custom executive education (EE) program design and delivery firm wants to identify and codify the component parts of what she and her husband believe constitute e... Read More
Sparking Ideas for Crafting a "Culture of Care"
G-0651 | Published May 20, 2021 | 2 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Many, if not most, organizational leaders want to be viewed as concerned for and thoughtful toward their people. Not all, however, manifest that desire in observable or meaningful ways. This case pres... Read More
Becoming an Executive Education Faculty Leader of Choice
PHA-0081 | Published December 08, 2020 | 2 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides an opportunity for students to consider and discuss the multifaceted responsibilities of an executive education (EE) custom program faculty leader. The case suggests that such a fac... Read More
Performance Goals at Tractors, Inc.
C-2443 | Published September 25, 2020 | 4 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case presents the coming year's performance goals as established by Marietta Austin, the new president of Tractors, Inc. (a subsidiary of AA Equipment Corporation [AAEC], a fictional company), al... Read More
Assessing the Impact of Executive Education
G-0650 | Published August 05, 2020 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Harry Miller, the new CEO of a large and growing multinational transportation and logistics company, has asked Allison Freeman, his CHRO, to brief him on the impact that their off-site custom executiv... Read More
LeMar Outdoor Play Products, Ltd.: An Outsourcing Decision to India
Simko, Paul J.; Haskins, Mark E.
C-2440 | Published June 18, 2020 | 8 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case, based on general business experience, casts students in the role of analyzing the financial effects of a possible outsourcing decision. Lee and Marcia Mills, owners of LeMar Outdoor Play Pr... Read More
Ratios Tell a Story—2019
C-2438 | Published May 21, 2020 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This short case challenges students to review an array of corporate financial metrics and to match them to one of 13 listed industries. As such, students must use their intuition and common sense pert... Read More
4 Sisters Construction Co.: Instant Insights for Estimating Economic Profit
C-2437 | Published April 27, 2020 | 8 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This short, fictional case chronicles the story of Susan Hughes, the CFO for 4 Sisters Construction Co. (4SCC), who introduces the economic profit (EP) construct to her fellow executives (and sisters)... Read More
Sports Equipment, Inc.: Instant Insights for a Two-Factor Variance Analysis
C-2436 | Published April 14, 2020 | 8 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Sara Hughes, the CFO at Sports Equipment, Inc. (SEI), is striving to make financial analysis more easily and uniformly done by the company's investment center managers. As such, she has presented her ... Read More
Executive Incentive Pay Disclosures at Etsy, Inc.
Lynch, Luann J.; Haskins, Mark E.
C-2430 | Published December 06, 2019 | 22 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The financially savvy (fictional) protagonist in this case is an independent artist, intrigued with the possibility of becoming a seller on the Etsy, Inc., marketplace. As such, she is seeking to lear... Read More
Revenue Recognition (Topic 606) at Salesforce.com, Inc.
Lynch, Luann J.; Haskins, Mark E.
C-2428 | Published September 20, 2019 | 25 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case uses an array of carefully selected and excerpted revenue recognition related information contained in Salesforce.com’s January 31, 2019, 10-K. Maria, the fictional protagonist, is seeking t... Read More
Crafting a Statement of Cash Flows: Preferred Airline Group Corporation Buys West Coastal Air, Inc.
C-2427 | Published June 26, 2019 | 7 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Marsha Alstone was fascinated with mergers and acquisitions. She had been following the news of Preferred Airline Group Corporation's (PAG's) interest in, offer for, and 100% acquisition of West Coast... Read More
Potential Volatility Comes to Earnings: A Look at Berkshire Hathaway’s Equity Investments
Lynch, Luann J.; Haskins, Mark E.
C-2426 | Published June 19, 2019 | 22 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Based in Omaha, Nebraska, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is a holding company that invests in many diverse businesses. The most significant of those are property and casualty insurance businesses, although t... Read More
Corporate Financial Ratio Insights in a Department of Defense Context
C-2424 | Published June 06, 2019 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case asks students to review 10 columns of financial data drawn from 10 different companies and to match each with an industry in a list of 10 industries. Read More
Shareholders’ Equity at PepsiCo
Lynch, Luann J.; Haskins, Mark E.
C-2425 | Published May 28, 2019 | 16 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides instructors with an opportunity to discuss some of the fundamental aspects of a typical public company’s shareholders’ equity financial reporting and financial disclosures. As such,... Read More
Caterpillar Inc. Taps the Chinese Bond Market
Lynch, Luann J.; Haskins, Mark E.
C-2418 | Published May 09, 2019 | 12 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
An MBA graduate prepares for a possible interview with Caterpillar Inc. by reading about the company's longtime presence in China manufacturing heavy equipment and its continued optimism about the hea... Read More
Daimler Taps the Chinese Panda Bond Market
Lynch, Luann J.; Haskins, Mark E.
C-2417 | Published May 09, 2019 | 14 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Preparing for a potential interview, an MBA graduate reads extensively about Daimler AG. She learns about company’s longtime presence in China manufacturing luxury automobiles and its continued invest... Read More
Pacific National Industries, Inc.
West, June A.; Haskins, Mark E.
G-0646 | Published April 18, 2019 | 4 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Eric Walsh, newly promoted director of aviation for Pacific National Industries, Inc. (PNI), is one week away from having to make his very first presentation to the company's COO and CFO. PNI is one o... Read More
Generating Revenue Growth Ideas at Evergreen Executive Education, LLC (A)
G-0644 | Published December 17, 2018 | 2 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The new business development manager for Evergreen Executive Education has been asked by the firm's CEO to develop a list of as many revenue growth ideas as he could over the next week. The COE saw th... Read More
Generating Revenue Growth Ideas at Evergreen Executive Education, LLC (B)
G-0645 | Published December 17, 2018 | 3 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The new business development manager for Evergreen Executive Education has been asked by the firm's CEO to develop a list of as many revenue growth ideas as he could over the next week. The COE saw th... Read More
Equity Investments at Berkshire Hathaway
Lynch, Luann J.; Haskins, Mark E.
C-2416 | Published October 02, 2018 | 16 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
As Berkshire Hathaway had reported in its 2018, first quarter, 10-Q, it was "engage[d] in a number of diverse business activities." Maria knew that Berkshire Hathaway bought the stock of numerous othe... Read More
A New Era in Revenue Recognition: General Dynamics and Ford
Lynch, Luann J.; Haskins, Mark E.
C-2414 | Published September 05, 2018 | 33 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
What had started out as an easy perusal of two recently issued 2017 corporate annual reports had morphed into a task of sleuthing when the reader had come across what some experts referred to as "the ... Read More
Ratios Tell a Story—2017
C-2410 | Published June 28, 2018 | 4 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case challenges students to review a series of corporate financial metrics and to match each of them with an industry in a list of 13 industries. Read More
Amazon.com, Inc. Buys Whole Foods Market
Lynch, Luann J.; Haskins, Mark E.
C-2409 | Published March 19, 2018 | 13 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
After Amazon.com announced it would acquire Whole Foods, shares of supermarkets in the United States were hit hard; the same was true for grocers in Europe, as investors there worried about the possib... Read More
Sonvilier Pen Company: An Outsourcing Decision
Simko, Paul J.; Haskins, Mark E.
C-2406 | Published February 01, 2018 | 8 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The COO for Sonvilier Pen, an elite manufacturer of high-quality ballpoint and fountain pens, had gotten a proposal to outsource two pen components to Li Manufacturing, a specialist in the molding and... Read More
"Nobody Ever Disagrees" (A)
G-0641 | Published December 15, 2017 | 4 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The president of the Belgian consumer goods subsidiary of a large American conglomerate thought he had inherited a loyal, lean, efficient, and capable management team to help him accelerate the growth... Read More
"Nobody Ever Disagrees" (B)
G-0642 | Published December 15, 2017 | 1 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The president of the Belgian consumer goods subsidiary had made a conscious effort to engage his direct reports in ways that he felt aligned with their personalities. He had noticed some modest change... Read More
Cash Flow Statement Confessions: Department Store Retailers (A)
C-2397 | Published August 07, 2017 | 11 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A fellow named J. T. Funk is fascinated with the fact that there were often clear winners and clear losers in the competitive retail arena, and it did not seem to matter whether a retailer was big or ... Read More
Cash Flow Statement Confessions: Department Store Retailers (B)
C-2398 | Published August 07, 2017 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A fellow named J. T. Funk has reviewed the financial statements of two retail companies and now adds a third company's financial statements to review for strength or portended weakness, and if so, to ... Read More
Facebook’s Acquisition of WhatsApp: The Rise of Intangibles (A)
C-2382 | Published November 09, 2016 | 15 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
One of Susan Shaw's interests is investing in the stock market. She has copied some pages of Facebook Inc.'s 2015, 2014, and 2013 financial statements, and the company sure seemed like an investment w... Read More
Facebook’s Acquisition of WhatsApp: The Rise of Intangibles (B)
C-2383 | Published November 09, 2016 | 6 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In the B case, Susan Shaw has finished her review of the Facebook/WhatsApp deal and recalls hearing about AT&T's acquisition of DIRECTV in July 2015. From a financial-statement-impact point of view, s... Read More
Impairing the Microsoft/Nokia Pairing
C-2386 | Published September 07, 2016 | 25 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A writer of computer code, who bought and sold tech company stocks, is asked by one of his friends, who was contemplating buying some Microsoft stock, to help him understand the Microsoft/Nokia deal. Read More
Ratios Tell a Story—2015
C-2381 | Published July 26, 2016 | 4 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case challenges students to review a series of corporate financial metrics and to match them to one of the 13 labeled and listed industries. It is suitable for MBA and undergraduate students read... Read More
The Gail Palmer Ashton Graduate School of Business: The Balanced Scorecard Initiative (SPANISH)
C-2423 | Published June 28, 2016 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a Spanish translation of the June 15, 2009, version of UVA-C-2267. This case presents students with an opportunity to develop a set of performance metrics based on four strategic goal statemen... Read More
S.J. Lawson, Inc.—A Performance Measurement Behavioral Audit
C-2366 | Published September 21, 2015 | 4 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
With the encouragement of its overseas parent company, Cochran Consumer Products Inc. (CCPI), the U.S.-based executive team at S.J. Lawson, Inc. (SJLI), was nearly ready to announce the new financial ... Read More
Classroom Covenant: Yes? No?
PHA-0073 | Published August 06, 2015 | 3 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Junior and senior faculty members collaborate on crafting a classroom covenant. Read More
Colorado & Utah Canyons Tour Company
C-2364 | Published July 29, 2015 | 4 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Ron Hopkins had just finished his first year as founder, president, head mechanic, chief cook, and lead tour guide for the Colorado & Utah Canyon Tours Company (CUCTC). The first year had been a good ... Read More
CEO Oath of Office: Yes or No?
G-0637 | Published September 12, 2014 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The new CEO of a large growing company is determined to stay focused, work hard, think broadly, and tap the talents of those who work for him. He is so committed to do his best that he would take an ... Read More
Judy Gent—Inventory
C-2352 | Published September 10, 2014 | 28 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is used at the Darden School of Business in the inventory module of the "Financial Reporting" course elective, but it would also work well at the advanced undergraduate level. Through five p... Read More
Ratios Tell a Story–2013
C-2350 | Published June 23, 2014 | 4 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case challenges students to review a series of corporate financial metrics and to match them to one of the 13 labeled and listed industries. It is suitable for MBA and undergraduate students read... Read More
Developing Financial Insights: Using a Future Value (FV) and a Present Value (PV) Approach (CHINESE)
C-2419 | Published December 20, 2013 | 11 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a Chinese translation of the June 1, 2011, version of UVA-C-2318. This case provides a tutorial on the basic concepts associated with straightforward time-value-of-money scenarios. The topics ... Read More
The Business School at Ivy State University: Cost Behaviors
C-2346 | Published September 18, 2013 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Some potentially painful cost reductions will have to be made at the Ivy State University Business School, so the business manager has been asked to develop a list of initial cost cuts. To visualize h... Read More
Martha Hires—The Good and The Bad of Working with Clients
G-0635 | Published September 11, 2013 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Retiring after 16 years at Evergreen Executive Education, LLC, Martha Hires is reminiscing with a colleague about some of the great and not-so-great client experiences they had shared over the years. ... Read More
Michael Harris: Crafting a MBA Faculty Values Statement
E-0388 | Published September 06, 2013 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Worried that a graduate business school is in danger of losing the legacy of shared values that make it so special to many faculty members, one member feels a responsibility to create a document that ... Read More
Southpointe Corporation—Key Experiences
G-0634 | Published July 29, 2013 | 3 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
During the five years Southpointe Corporation had used its custom Leadership Development Program (LDP), a significant number of existing and high-potential managers from all the company's functional a... Read More
Jack Drake's Question: What Makes a Great Executive Education Instructor?
PHA-0071 | Published August 28, 2012 | 4 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The faculty leader for the custom executive education (EE) program at a business school has received an e-mail from a program client asking him to remove a member of the program's teaching team. It ca... Read More
Horse Vet, LLC: Transaction Analysis and Statement of Cash Flows Preparation (Option 1)
C-2333 | Published August 09, 2012 | 12 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case pertains to the foundational underpinnings of the accounting process and the statement of cash flows. In Part I, students are presented with 23 business events that they must evaluate for re... Read More
Horse Vet, LLC: Transaction Analysis and Statement of Cash Flows Preparation (Option 2)
C-2334 | Published August 09, 2012 | 11 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case pertains to the foundational underpinnings of the accounting process and the statement of cash flows. In Part I, students are not given a list of business events to record, but rather, they ... Read More
Ratios Tell a Story–2011
C-2332 | Published July 05, 2012 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Financial results and conditions vary among companies for a number of reasons. The differences in industry characteristics, company policies, management performance, and responsiveness to the macroeco... Read More
Juno Manufacturing, Inc.: Verify Those Asset Figures
C-2325 | Published November 08, 2011 | 3 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The vice president of business development for the Better Living Spaces Company is excited about the prospects of his first acquisition, Juno Manufacturing, Inc., (JMI). He decides it would be prudent... Read More
High Point Aviation: Operating Breakevens
C-2329 | Published October 10, 2011 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A couple wants to start a small flight charter company to serve the mining, oil, scientific, and wilderness adventure clients of northern Canada but worry that their thin financial base necessitates a... Read More
Teaching Excellence: Reflecting on What Makes Great Professors Great
PHA-0063 | Published June 24, 2011 | 4 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This short case presents two typical conversations surrounding the issue of classroom teaching excellence. One conversation is from a student perspective, and the other is from a faculty perspective. ... Read More
Developing Financial Insights: Using a Future Value (FV) and a Present Value (PV) Approach
C-2318 | Published June 01, 2011 | 12 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides a tutorial on the basic concepts associated with straightforward time-value-of-money scenarios. The topics of future value (FV) and present value (PV) are discussed and exemplified ... Read More
Ratios Tell A Story—2009
C-2316 | Published August 06, 2010 | 4 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This short case challenges students to review a series of corporate financial metrics and to match them to 1 of the 13 industries labeled and listed for them. It is suitable for MBA and undergraduate ... Read More
Present Value: A Note on Personal Applications
C-2314 | Published August 03, 2010 | 17 pages. Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note explores discounted cash flows as a core technique for valuing a business, allocating scarce resources, and comparing alternative investments. Suitable for MBA and undergraduate business stu... Read More
The Financial Cockpit: Three Levers and One Flight Plan
C-2313 | Published July 29, 2010 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case focuses on the use and interpretation of the DuPont model financial ratios, in particular the following four: return on sales, asset turnover, financial leverage, and return on equity. Stude... Read More
First Mates' Wholesale Boating Supply Company: Do or Don't?
C-2312 | Published May 14, 2010 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case presents a series of decision points along with a simple process for ascertaining underlying source(s) of disagreement, which represents an important managerial tool. The president of First ... Read More
Physicians for You, LLC: Estimating Asset-Related Expenses
C-2304 | Published October 23, 2009 | 6 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Students explore the variability in earnings due solely to the need to make estimates for several common financial statement asset-related expense items. They consider depreciable asset lives and resi... Read More
Sack It & Pack It, Inc.: 12 Combinations of GAAP and How They Differ
C-2300 | Published September 16, 2009 | 4 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This short but provocative case is a useful vehicle for differentiating the financial statement effects of just a few of the accounting method choices available under U.S. generally accepted accountin... Read More
Mid-Atlantic Professional Development Center: Lengthening the Half-Life of Learning
PHA-0061 | Published August 24, 2009 | 3 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
How can executive education providers and purchasers best facilitate the transfer of program learning back to a participant's workplace setting? All too often, busy schedules, dealing with one crisis ... Read More
Dog Concierges, LLC: Transaction Analysis and Statement of Cash Flows Preparation
C-2297 | Published July 28, 2009 | 9 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is appropriate in a MBA module for the accounting process and is also an excellent exam case. It provides a diagram of the three basic financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, ... Read More
Financial Reporting Discussions and Debates: A Series of Review Tasks
C-2286 | Published October 16, 2008 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
These instructional materials are positioned to be a useful means for reviewing certain aspects of financial reporting. They are purposeful, yet a bit playful; discussion-oriented, yet focused on the ... Read More
Harris Corporation: Financial Benchmarking
C-2289 | Published October 14, 2008 | 12 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This field-based case describes the approach and decisions used by Harris Corporation’s vice president of supply chain management and operations to establish a set of financial benchmarks. It requires... Read More
Outdoor Living Spaces Company: Financial Statement Overview
C-2287 | Published July 30, 2008 | 6 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This material presents students with an opportunity to have another shot at cementing their understanding of the general format of the three basic financial statements, some of the content of those st... Read More
Media General and the Balanced Scorecard (A)
Haskins, Mark E.; Eakes, Darrell
C-2283 | Published June 05, 2008 | 18 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
"Media General and the Balanced Scorecard (A) " (UVA-C-2283) describes the impetus for and the process of implementing a balanced scorecard (BSC) in a large, publicly held, multimedia news organizatio... Read More
Media General and the Balanced Scorecard (B)
Haskins, Mark E.; Eakes, Darrell
C-2284 | Published June 05, 2008 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
"Media General and the Balanced Scorecard (A) " (UVA-C-2283) describes the impetus for and the process of implementing a balanced scorecard (BSC) in a large, publicly held, multimedia news organizatio... Read More
Ratios Tell A Story–2007
C-2285 | Published June 04, 2008 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This short case challenges students to review a series of corporate financial metrics and to match them to one of the thirteen industries listed for them. Read More
Accounting for Marketable Securities
Lynch, Luann J.; Haskins, Mark E.
C-2280 | Published February 27, 2008 | 10 pages. Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note provides an overview of intercorporate investments, including passive investments (marketable securities), investments that result in significant influence, and investments that result in co... Read More
Evergreen Executive Education, LLC
PHA-0059 | Published September 06, 2007 | 3 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case presents students with an opportunity to develop an action plan for an executive education client program needs analysis. Evergreen Executive Education LLC (EEEL) has just landed a large, ne... Read More
The Gail Palmer Ashton Graduate School of Business: The Balanced Scorecard Initiative
C-2267 | Published August 10, 2007 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case presents students with an opportunity to develop a set of performance metrics based on four strategic goal statements. The setting is a highly ranked U.S. MBA program. Students are given som... Read More
Home Technologies, Inc.: Merging Corporate Learning Centers (A)
Haskins, Mark E.; Simandl, Jill
G-0590 | Published August 09, 2007 | 14 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Ted Colby, the newly appointed director of the Home Technologies, Inc.'s (HTI) learning center, is crafting a plan for the integration of the two learning centers, which come with different operating ... Read More
Home Technologies, Inc.: Merging Corporate Learning Centers (B)
Haskins, Mark E.; Simandl, Jill
G-0591 | Published August 09, 2007 | 4 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Ted Colby, the newly appointed director of the Home Technologies, Inc.'s (HTI) learning center, is crafting a plan for the integration of the two learning centers, which come with different operating ... Read More
Adenosine Therapeutics LLC: Accounting for a Different Compensation Method
C-2264 | Published July 16, 2007 | 6 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case challenges students to apply financial reporting concepts pertaining, most notably, to liabilities and expenses in a specific corporate situation. In the context of an interesting, but nonco... Read More
Gibson Insurance Company
Haskins, Mark E.; Lilly, Kristy; Smith, Liz
C-2237 | Published June 27, 2006 | 10 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides students with an opportunity to practice a set of activity-based costing calculations. More importantly, it provides an instructor with the opportunity to challenge students to thin... Read More
Rivanna University
G-0578 | Published June 14, 2006 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Several months into the relationship, Rivanna University asked its executive education client, OET, for permission to use the cases that had been developed for them in another executive education sett... Read More
Maumee Commercial Dining Products, Inc.
C-2247 | Published June 12, 2006 | 6 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this case students must ascertain what financial ratios they recommend the company focus on and they must also decide how best to communicate, explain, and bring to life those metrics so that the c... Read More
Maumee Commercial Dining Products, Inc. (SPANISH)
C-2377 | Published June 12, 2006 | 6 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Spanish translation of UVA-C-2247. In this case students must ascertain what financial ratios they recommend the company focus on and they must also decide how best to communicate, explain, and bring... Read More
Albert Robins Company, Inc.—Trade Receivables
Haskins, Mark E.; Bray, Rebecca
C-2245 | Published June 08, 2006 | 12 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case raises the question: How does a company reasonably estimate and record entries for uncollectible trade receivables, and under what circumstances are receivables written off as uncollectible?... Read More
Ratios Tell a Story–2005
C-2236 | Published May 15, 2006 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides financial ratios and common-size balance sheets for 13 "mystery" companies. Students are asked to match each mystery company's data to one of the 13 industries provided. Read More
International Ratios Tell A Story–2005
C-2235 | Published April 19, 2006 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides an opportunity for students to (1) understand the calculation of a number of basic financial ratios, (2) analyze a set of common-size balance sheets and several financial ratio metr... Read More
Oriole Furniture, Inc. (A)
Rotch, William; Haskins, Mark E.
C-2191 | Published April 04, 2005 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case first describes, in general terms, a fairly typical annual budgeting process for a division of a company. It then depicts, as of the end of May, the division's actual performance compared wi... Read More
Remington, Inc.: Instant Insights for Financial Ratios
C-2203 | Published July 12, 2004 | 7 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Traditional financial-ratio analysis is a popular after-the-fact look at financial and managerial performance. This case introduces a means for incorporating rates of improvement, growth, or change i... Read More
Ratios Tell A Story–2003
C-2202 | Published July 09, 2004 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides financial ratios and common-size balance sheets for 13 "mystery" companies. Students are asked to match each mystery company's data to one of the 13 industries provided. Read More
Consumer Service Company (A)
Sack, Robert J.; Haskins, Mark E.
C-2192 | Published June 23, 2004 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This in-class role-play provides an effective means for uncovering, highlighting, and discussing principles for developing a sales budget and the ethical issues embedded in the relationship between in... Read More
Lambeth Custom Cabinets (A)
Haskins, Mark E.; Spreng, Francis
C-2196 | Published March 25, 2004 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides an opportunity to explore very simple job-order costing. It also provides a chance to discuss contribution analysis in the context of a pricing decision and the absorption of manufa... Read More
Denver Wholesale Sporting Goods, Inc.
Haskins, Mark E.; Bristow, John B.
C-2067 | Published March 12, 2004 | 3 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case requires students to develop an understanding of (1) the nature of various business events, and (2) how such events affect a company's reported cash flows, net current assets, total assets, ... Read More
Graphics, Inc.
Rotch, William; Haskins, Mark E.
C-2190 | Published February 06, 2004 | 14 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This competitive bidding game consists of four teams, which can be two to four students. (Several games can be played simultaneously.) Each team runs a printing company that has a capacity of forty pr... Read More
Shun Electronics Company
Rotch, William; Haskins, Mark E.
C-2189 | Published February 02, 2004 | 7 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The Shun Electronics KL Radio division wants to expand its three departmental cost centers to eight, each with its own overhead cost allocation rate. As a result, it appears that the total costs for f... Read More
The Squeaky Horn
Haskins, Mark E.; Lilly, Kristy; Smith, Liz
C-2183 | Published August 22, 2003 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides students the opportunity to practice variance analysis for an annual operating plan using flexible budgeting skills. First, a static budget is flexed to account for changes in produ... Read More
Zauner Ornaments
Haskins, Mark E.; Lilly, Kristy; Smith, Liz
C-2181 | Published August 12, 2003 | 9 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The primary purpose of this case is to provide students with an opportunity to practice the implementation of a simple activity-based costing (ABC) system. In doing so, students are asked to review se... Read More
The Craddock Cup
Haskins, Mark E.; Lilly, Kristy; Smith, Liz
C-2182 | Published August 12, 2003 | 6 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case has three main purposes: (1) to illustrate the importance of understanding cost behaviors in calculating the contribution of the Craddock Cup youth soccer tournament to decide whether to con... Read More
Finnegan's Gardens
Haskins, Mark E.; Lilly, Kristy; Smith, Liz
C-2180 | Published January 20, 2003 | 6 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides students with an opportunity to understand how to analyze costs and profit at the service-line level. Students have a chance to allocate general and administrative costs to service ... Read More
EntertainmentNow.com
Haskins, Mark E.; Lilly, Kristy; Smith, Liz
C-2184 | Published January 20, 2003 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case presents an opportunity for students to use flexible budgeting to perform a variance analysis on the operating results of EntertainmentNow.com. First, the company's original budget is flexed... Read More
Ratios Tell a Story—2001
C-2162 | Published August 06, 2002 | 4 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Financial ratios and common-size balance sheets for 13 "mystery" companies are provided. Students then match each mystery company's data to 1 of the 13 industries provided. In the process, students l... Read More
A Note on, and a Tale about, Flexible Budgeting
C-2156 | Published August 09, 2001 | 10 pages. Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This technical note introduces students to the concept, use, and mechanics of flexible budgeting. It is best used at the beginning of a course module on budgeting or performance measurement/management... Read More
Ratios Tell a Story—1999
C-2149 | Published June 26, 2000 | 4 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides an opportunity for students to: (1) learn about the calculation of various financial ratios, (2) hypothesize how some of their basic understandings of an industry would be reflected... Read More
Managing The Career Blues
Clawson, James G.; Haskins, Mark E.
PACS-0097 | Published August 17, 1999 | 15 pages. Exercise
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note offers a means of assessing a person's career engagement, the lack of which is termed the "career blues." The note provides a self-assessment exercise, some background theory and discussion,... Read More
Texaco Aviation Transport Services (A)
Haskins, Mark E.; Bowen, Susan
G-0539 | Published November 12, 1998 | 9 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The A case (see also the B [G-0540] and C [G-0541] cases) presents a unique setting for exploring issues of outsourcing, in general, and purchasing a fractional ownership of a corporate plane, in part... Read More
Texaco Aviation Transport Services (C)
Haskins, Mark E.; Bowen, Susan
G-0541 | Published November 11, 1998 | 4 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The C case (see also the A [G-0539] and B [G-0540] cases) presents some of the unanticipated pluses of having entered into the fractional-ownership arrangement. The real message students take away is ... Read More
Texaco Aviation Transport Services (B)
Haskins, Mark E.; Bowen, Susan
G-0540 | Published November 11, 1998 | 8 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The B case relates some of the problems that Don Baldwin experienced once he signed the contract with NetJet?, as well as some of the negatives that should have been discussed after reading the A case... Read More
The Horizon Insurance Agency
C-2140 | Published September 25, 1998 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The basic decision scenario is whether to outsource an internal publishing department. What is initially presented as a comparison of a department's annual operating costs versus an outside contract q... Read More
General Motors (C): Mike Ross
Haskins, Mark E.; Elmer, Jeffrey
E-0089 | Published October 03, 1994 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides a context for discussing a supplier's views regarding a possible GM PICOS team review of its operations. Instructors should consider two companion cases, "General Motors (B): Ignaci... Read More
General Motors (D): The PICOS Team
Haskins, Mark E.; Elmer, Jeffrey
E-0090 | Published October 03, 1994 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides a context for discussing the GM PICOS team approach to supplier-cost reductions from the perspective of a member of the team who realizes his recommendations could displace a lot of... Read More
General Motors (A): Jack Smith
Haskins, Mark E.; Elmer, Jeffrey
E-0087 | Published September 29, 1994 | 6 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The basic issue is, what message(s) should Jack Smith deliver in his first press conference as CEO of GM? The case provides a context for identifying important stakeholders, determining/identifying th... Read More
Computer Peripherals, Inc. (B)
Sack, Robert J.; Haskins, Mark E.; Gatto, Sheryl; Luther, Howard
C-2091 | Published August 11, 1993 | 4 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case extends the A case discussion to include the perspectives of a writer for an industry trade publication who is an expert in the products and product markets. Students consider an industry's ... Read More
Computer Peripherals, Inc. (A)
Sack, Robert J.; Haskins, Mark E.; Gatto, Sheryl
C-2090 | Published August 02, 1993 | 10 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Pat Coleman, new audit partner on the Computer Peripherals account, was feeling the pressure. The company's CEO insisted that the audit be completed by the following week, but Pat wondered whether is... Read More
Predicting Corporate Bankruptcy
Pfeifer, Phillip E.; Haskins, Mark E.
QA-0371 | Published April 05, 1991 | 9 pages. Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note describes a study of the important predictors of corporate bankruptcy. Twenty-four financial ratios for a paired sample of fifty healthy and bankrupt firms are provided. Students are asked t... Read More
How Much Is Enough: Assessing Personal Financial Planning Needs
C-2000 | Published March 12, 1991 | 2 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case can be used as a capstone to a time value of money instructional module or as part of a personal finance module. The three scenarios present common situations encountered in estimating the a... Read More
Compton Computing Systems (B)
Haskins, Mark E.; Bristow, John B.
C-2023 | Published March 11, 1991 | 9 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a follow up to the A case (UVA-C-2022), in which a manager is faced with problems in analyzing cash flows for the year. The B case allows students to experience comparative cash flow analysis,... Read More
Compton Computing Systems (A)
Haskins, Mark E.; Bristow, John B.
C-2022 | Published March 05, 1991 | 6 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A manager is faced with problems in analyzing cash flows for the year. He has completed a projected balance sheet and projected income statement, and wants to construct a projected statement of cash f... Read More
East Tacoma Works
C-2001 | Published January 25, 1991 | 5 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is useful as an initial case pertaining to a typical capital-budgeting process and a straightforward analysis. Behavioral issues deal with the committal to savings, and the analysis lends it... Read More
The Garden Place—One Year Later
Lynch, Luann J.; Smith, C. Ray; Haskins, Mark E.; Brownlee, E. Richard II
C-2068 | Published March 12, 1990 | 8 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case presents a series of financial events for students to record and to use in preparing financial statements. Read More
American Toy Company—The Zapper
Haskins, Mark E.; Bristow, John B.
C-2040 | Published March 12, 1988 | 6 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides a setting for analyzing the effects of various depreciation methods and expenditure capitalization decisions on divisional return on asset (ROA) measures. Read More
ACC Reading No. 5: The Statement of Cash Flows
Haskins, Mark E.; Bristow, John B.
C-2024 | Published March 11, 1988 | 18 pages. Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This technical note describes cash flow analysis, cash management, and construction of the statement of cash flows. Read More
Paragon Electronics, Inc.: Inventory Cost Flow
Haskins, Mark E.; Parker, Monty
C-1076 | Published March 12, 1986 | 6 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides the basis for exploring issues pertaining to different cost flow assumptions and their working capital consequences. Students make various cost flow calculations for inventory and c... Read More
Catur Federal Savings and Loan?Lease Options
Haskins, Mark E.; Bray, Rebecca
C-1043 | Published April 11, 1985 | 7 pages. Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Students analyze three lease options available to the company and determine the effects of each on cash flow, income tax expense, the balance sheet, and the income statement effects. Read More