Talk:Accounting reform
From Academic Kids
What makes it particularly difficult to write an NPOV article about this is that the existing system has literally no living defenders - everyone acknowledges at least a few flaws in current accounting standards and practices, but the inertia seems to be dragging us all in a certain direction set in 1944 at Bretton Woods.
It would nice to find even ONE coherent statement of what's OK with the current system - the lobbying efforts referred to tend to be US-centric, secretive, and difficult to decipher. They certainly don't publish defenses of "the system"...
Two Topics for the Price of One
I have attempted to differentiate between the two topics being discussed in this article. I didn't want to add anything since I don't really know the details of "accounting reform." But is sure seemed obvious that two completely different subjects were being "reformed."
Perhaps the problem with finding defendings of the existing system is that the accusations are vague. It's very hard to defend against a will-o-the-wisp. Or that the accusations are saying that accounting isn't measuring something it was never meant to measure? Either way, defense is difficult.--Fredrik Coulter 03:35, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)
