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Groupon Revisited: New Mission, New Reporting Issues
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Is FASB Killing the Auditing Profession?
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re: The Auditors

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Grumpy Old Accountants was created in April 2011 by Professors Edward Ketz (The Pennsylvania State University) and Anthony H. Catanach Jr. (Villanova University) to promote ethical and transparent financial reporting, common sense standard-setting, and effective auditing.  For the first 19 months of its existence, the blog was hosted at Penn State, but with the recent retirement of Grumpy Old Ed from blogging, Grumpy Old Tony has relocated to a new Squarespace location, and will attempt to continue the work valued by our readers. It will continue to  provide commentary (now about every two weeks) on contemporary accounting, auditing, and financial reporting issues “ripped from the headlines” of major business publications.   Specifically, the blog will:

  • Critically review the audit quality of large accounting firms and discuss the appropriateness of what they do and whether they contribute to the financial reporting process.  
  • Comment on standard setters such as the FASB and the IASB—whether their exposure drafts and new standards are improvements or dysfunctional will-o’-the-wisps.  
  • Track activities by the SEC, the PCAOB, Congress, and credit rating agencies and discuss whether they are improving financial reporting or whether they are hurting the investment community.
  • Apply academic models and tools useful in conducting detailed financial analyses.

Readers will find that Grumpy Old Accountants will be not only controversial and topical, but very readable and understandable, traits uncommon to most accounting discourse.  The narrative also will provide supporting Web-links to facilitate research of the issues discussed.