Below is a list of recommended additional reading for the class Financial Reporting and Control, taught in Fall 2017. The readings are organized by the related case. The entire list can be downloaded here.
Accounting for Nuclear Power Provisions at RWE
Lords of Finance: The Bankers who Broke the World, Liaquat Ahamed
Mike Mayo Takes on Citigroup
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of how Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves, Andrew Ross Sorkin
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Michael Lewis
All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis, Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead, Alan Blinder
Accounting for the iPhone Upgrade Program
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron, Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
Exposure, Inside the Olympus Scandal: How I Went from CEO to Whistleblower, Michael Woodford
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, Richard Thayler
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains, Nicholas Carr
Signet Jewelers: All that Glitters…
“Why We Must Ration Health Care,” Peter Singer, New York Times Magazine, July 15, 2009
ATH Technologies: Making the Numbers
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man who would Cure the World, Tracy Kidder
The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee
Nordstrom: Dissension in the Ranks
Peak Performance: Elevate your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the new Science of Success, Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness
Transworld Auto Parts
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Michael Lewis
A Sense of where You are: Bill Bradley at Princeton, John McPhee
Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo Community Bank
The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives, Jesse Eisinger
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Lawrence Wright
The Corpse had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America’s Hottest Beat, Edna Buchanan
Handlesbanken: May 2002
The CEO Pay Machine: How it Trashes America and how to Stop it, Steven Clifford
Alibaba Goes Public
The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy, Raj Patel
“Secrets and Agents,” The Economist, July 23, 2016, a comprehensive article about George Akerlof’s 1970 paper, “The Market for Lemons”
Financial Reporting Problems at Molex
Who Owns the Future, Jaron Lanier
Target Corporation: Ackman versus the Board
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, Manning Marable
The Late Show, Michael Connelly
Fair Value Accounting Controversy at Noble Group
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, Daniel Yergin
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, Daniel Yergin
Measuring True Value at Ambuja Cement
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, Katherine Boo
“Capitalism for the People,” The Economist, November 30, 2017
“Indian firms make the best of coerced do-goodery,” The Economist, November 16, 2017
A Letter from Prison
Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal, Eugene Soltes
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway – And its Aftermath, Seierstad Asne