"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 organization. The B case (UVA-C-2284) presents a situation where a business-unit manager turns to his...

This case can be used as a supplement to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. -- Intercorporate Investments (A) (UVA-C-2240). Students are presented with hypothetical data related to one of Berkshire Hathaway's investments and asked to compare the financial statement impacts of the investment if it is...

The purpose of this case is to illustrate the numerous financial accounting and reporting issues associated with the purchase of corporate bonds that may or may not be held to maturity. It requires students to calculate the effective semiannual interest rate and to prepare a bond premium...

The purpose of this case is to illustrate the numerous financial accounting and reporting issues associated with the issuance of corporate bonds at less than face value. The case requires students to calculate the effective semiannual interest rate and to prepare a bond amortization schedule. It...

The setting of this case is the Recession of 1980. G. Wilson amp; Co. is a job shop that gets business by submitting the low bid. Robert Monroe, the controller, has been doing a trial run of direct costing. The case provides financial information for six months under both direct costing and...

After the successful implementation of Lean manufacturing concepts at U.S. Navy Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Depot (AIMD) Lemoore, particularly with regard to the maintenance processes for the F404 engine on the F/A-18 Hornet, these concepts have became the standard by which production...

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 noncomplex, technical accounting issue, students debate the best way for Adenosine Therapeutics to...

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 company's cadre of non-financial middle managers can most easily understand the significance of,...

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? The required accounting transactions for the case involve estimating a receivables allowance...