Dr. Robert A. Howell    

PUBLICATIONS    

In his career as an academic, consultant, and executive, Dr. Howell has produced an extensive number of publications. He is author of several research studies on the changing roles of management accounting and financial management for the NAA and FEI, respectively, and articles in the Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times, Financial Executive, Management Accounting, and other publications.

Selected Publications    

"Improving Financial Reporting", Financial Executive, April 2008
"The CFO: From Controller to Global Strategic Partner," Financial Executive, April 2006.

"Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Compliance: From Project to Sustainability," with W. Sinnett, Financial Executive Research Foundation, November 2005.

"Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation: Practices of Leading Companies," with C. Graziano and W. Sinnett, Financial Executive Research Foundation, May 2005.

"The Strategic Communication Imperative," with Paul A. Argenti and Karen A. Beck, MIT Sloan Management Review, Vol. 46, No. 3, Spring 2005, pp. 83-89.

"Turn Your Budgeting Process Upside Down," Harvard Business Review, July-August 2004.

"Investing in Healthy Human Capital," Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, December 2003.

"Accounting Scandals: Where were the CFOs?," Business Strategy Review, Winter 2002.

"Upholding the First Line of Defence," Financial Times, August 14, 2002

"How Accounting Executives Looked the Wrong Way," Financial Times, August 13, 2002

"Tying Free Cash Flows to Market Valuations," Financial Executive, May/June 2002

"Fixing Financial Reporting: Financial Statement Overhaul," Financial Executive, March/April 2002

"Management Accounting (and Other) Lessons from the Japanese," Management Accounting, December 1992

With J.K. Shank, S.R. Soucy, and J. Fisher, Cost Management for Tomorrow, Financial Executives Research Foundation, 1992

With S.R. Soucy, Factory 2000+: Management Accounting's Changing Role, National Association of Accountants, 1988

With J. Brown and A. Seed, Management Accounting in the New Manufacturing Environment, National Association of Accountants, 1987

Related Links

CFO Magazine

Financial Executive

Financial Times

Fortune

Harvard Business Review

Management Accounting

MIT Sloan Management Review

Recent Cases  

Kraft Foods, Inc. - Cadbury Plc. Proposed Merger (2009)
Procter & Gamble 2009 (A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
Procter & Gamble 2008 (A), (B), (C), (D), (E); 2007 (A), (B); 2006 (A), (B)
Google 2006
eBay 2006, 2002
Pulte Homes, Inc. 2009, 2007
PepsiCo 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003
Johnson & Johnson 2008 (A), (B)
Johnson & Johnson 2007, 2005, 2003
Johnson & Johnson 2002 (A), (B)
US Bancorp 2008, 2007, 2005
Texas Instruments 2000: Introducing "Pro Forma Earnings" for the First Time
Texas Instruments 2001: Reconciling Pro Forma and GAAP Income
Texas Instruments 2002: The Continuing Saga of TI's Financial Reporting
Intel 2003: Expensing Stock Options
General Motors Corporation 2002: When Future Promises Come Due
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Xerox Corporation 2000
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