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Accounting Rules Were Just Fine Until You Came Along

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Caleb Newquist

“The primary result of the convergence project has been to take a set of perfectly mediocre accounting standards (U.S. GAAP) and messed them all up.”

~ Professor David Albrecht, who isn’t quite ready to dance on the grave of accounting convergence.

Posted in Quote of the DayTagged Accounting rule convergence, Professor David Albrecht, Quote of the Day

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