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- Audit of ABC Inc., The
ABC's auditor has reported that it is probable that ABC made an error in preparing tax documentation that resulted in an underpayment of tax. Moreover, it appears unlikely that the tax authorities will notice or be able to recover the underpayment. ...
Disciplines: Accounting, Business - General, Business Ethics, Finance, Policy, Strategic Management
- Biovail Corporation (A)
Biovail Corporation, a large pharmaceutical company, recently had its stock downgraded by a well known pharmaceutical analyst and a number of other analysts were also scrutinizing the company. The outcome was not favorable, as Biovail's acquisition ...
Disciplines: Finance
- Biovail Corporation (B)
In this supplement to Biovail Corporation (A), product 9B04N007, an investor in Biovail made the decision to sell her stock in the company based on published reports from a well known pharmaceutical analyst. She later finds out that this analyst had...
Disciplines: Finance
- Cliffview Condominium Project
The president and principal shareholder of McLeod and Company Limited, which is also the principal agent for the sale of the Cliffview Condominium Hotel Limited Partnership, has only one month in which to sell the minimum number of units required by...
Disciplines: Finance
- Columbia/HCA and the Medicare Fraud Scandal
The board of directors and top management of Columbia/HCA Corporation faced tough decisions following initiation of a massive antifraud investigation by the federal government in July 1997. At the time, Columbia/HCA was the largest health care compa...
Disciplines: Accounting, Business Ethics, Finance, Government, Policy, Strategic Management
- Corporate Governance at Royal Bank of Canada
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), the largest financial services group in Canada, has one of the best boards in Canada. It has received the Overall Award of Excellence for corporate reporting from the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.RBC has re...
Disciplines: Finance
- Ethical Funds - The Stevensons' Debate
A couple debate whether some of their investment money should be directed at ethical (or socially responsible) mutual funds. An historical review of the development of such funds is provided. The case also describes and compares the investment perfo...
Disciplines: Finance
- Joe Killoran - Investor Advocate (A)
An investor advocate is faced with a dilemma over his shareholder proposals to the IRR Group mutual fund company. His proposals aimed to improve disclosure issues by the company and its mutual fund management practice to its mutual fund unitholders....
Disciplines: Finance
- Joe Killoran - Investor Advocate (B)
Joe Killoran, self-proclaimed investor advocate, had changed his original shareholder proposal from "voting status" to "review and discussion status." He was shocked to find his proposals had been edited which he felt changed and compromised the int...
Disciplines: Finance
- Manville Corporation, The
Manville is a diversified mining, timber, and manufacturing company with about 30,000 employees and 125 facilities. The company is the world’s largest producer of asbestos and asbestos-based products. The dangers of ingesting asbestos fibers began ...
Disciplines: Accounting, Business Ethics, Finance, Policy, Resource Extraction, Strategic Management
- Note on Insider Trading
The purpose of this note is to provide a brief overview of the law concerning insider trading. Insider trading which may attract liability means generally dealing in securities while in possession of material which is non-public information. Insider...
Disciplines: Finance, International Business
- Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System
The corporate governance consultant at the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) was preparing to respond to the proxy ballot for resolutions to be voted on at a Royal Oak Mines Inc. shareholders' meeting. Royal Oak's management was ...
Disciplines: Finance
- PEB Securities
The newly appointed branch manager at a branch of PEB Securities was worried. He had just finished speaking to a sales assistant regarding a series of transactions made by him over the last few months. Earlier in the day, the branch manager had rece...
Disciplines: Finance
- Peter Farber (A)
Late on a Friday afternoon, an investment advisor at the Toronto, Ontario branch of Reese, Gordon, and Company must decide whether to process an order made by a client's husband. This was the fifth time that the husband, who had no trading authority...
Disciplines: Finance
- Peter Farber (B)
An investment advisor at the Toronto, Ontario branch of Reese, Gordon, and Company received a call from a seasoned investigator with the Special Investigations Unit (SPU) of the Investment Dealers Association. She was calling to inform him that the ...
Disciplines: Finance
- Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Corporation
The focus of the case is on the privatization of Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Corporation by way of an initial public offering. It is written from the perspective of an investment banker, Wood Gundy, who has been requested to submit a proposal to the pr...
Disciplines: Finance, Resource Extraction
- Selling Biovail Short
Hedge fund SAC Capital and analysts from Gradient Analytics and Banc of America face charges of stock price manipulation from Biovail, a Canadian pharmaceutical company. Gradient and BofA produced negative reports on Biovail’s earnings quality. At t...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Finance
- Sherritt Gordon Ltd. - Proxy Contest
A shareholder group of Sherritt Gordon Limited is not satisfied that management was running the company properly and is attempting, through a proxy contest, to have the present board of directors removed and replaced with a new board. The case is su...
Disciplines: Finance
- Sun Life Financial Services
The case provides a detailed insight into the strategies adopted by Canadian insurance major Sun Life Financial Services (Sun Life) in various areas. The case provides information about the company's history, its evolution and examines its marketing...
Disciplines: Finance, Human Resource Management, Marketing
- Tanya Silk
An investment advisor has received an order to buy 1,000 coffee contracts for her client. The client, a senior weather analyst at Environmex, a private weather forecasting service, told her that he had just seen the latest long-range satellite weath...
Disciplines: Finance
- Unicorp Canada Corporation
Unicorp Canada has announced a tender offer for Union Enterprises Ltd. Unicorp management must devise a strategy subsequent to the hostile takeover offer. The case illustrates the full range of actions, from political to scorched earth, available to...
Disciplines: Finance
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