AG profiled Professor David Albrecht last week, which was an honor and a privilege for everyone involved. The Professor’s contributions to the accounting blogosphere are invaluable. Staying consistent with his priceless musings, his latest post asks an important question: “What Is Accounting Pornography?”
Now since we’re sure the professor wants us to think hard about this question, we’ll kindly oblige him.
Done.
As you might expect, this question has nothing to do with your particular taste in ladyboyx.com or whatever else the SEC staff might have turned you on to. No, this is more of the strange reading and/or viewing material that you might just enjoy a little too much (e.g. Lat’s proclivity for the Harvard Law faculty directory).
Okay, here are a few answers that come to mind:
• Any internal report that you stumble across that details upcoming layoffs.
• For Sam Antar and the rest of you sleuthy types, the notes to Overstock.com’s financial statements.
• For the weirdos, it could be watching Big 4 CEOs’ banal talking points with a snowy backdrop. Or the thought of Jim Turley in his Timberlands.
• For the sickos, nightmare CPA exam stories that end in a grade of 74.
If there’s something else that gets you off (Ben Bernanke testimony doesn’t count, AG) feel free to share. Just try to keep it relatively clean. In the meantime, we’ll be flipping through the Enron script.
What Is Accounting Pornography? [The Summa]
