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Mystery Books Co.: Measuring Performance through Accounting Policy Choices

Vaughan S. Radcliffe, Mitchell Stein, Elaine Wang

商品編號:W27858
出版日期:2022/04/12
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商品主題:Accounting; Finance
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涵蓋議題:earnings management,performance measures
難易度:4 - Undergraduate/MBA
內容長度:8 頁
地域:United States
產業:Information; Media & Telecommunications
事件年度:2021

In January 2021, the co-founder of Mystery Books Co. (Mystery Books) was evaluating the company’s 2020 performance under the leadership of his daughter as the new chief executive officer. His daughter had ambitions of securing Walmart Inc. as a key client, so the co-founder had promised her an additional performance bonus of 5 per cent of his 30 per cent ownership of common stock if she grew the company’s net income by 20 per cent over the previous year. Throughout his thirty years of managing the company as chief executive officer, the co-founder had maintained very conservative accounting policies, some of which had been modified under his daughter's management. After reviewing the 2020 financial information, the co-founder harboured several concerns: Should he have specified more conditions for his daughter's performance incentive? Would the accounting policy changes pass the scrutiny of the company’s external auditors? And how should he proceed with regard to the suspicious sales activity he noticed? With these questions at the front of his mind, the co-founder of Mystery Books thought that perhaps he should have somehow left more reporting guidance for the company prior to leaving.

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