Hello Chris,

Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts with folks reading my post. Clearly you are a passionate advocate of your opinions of accrual accounting and other forms of accounting. Nice of you to share that with each of us. Also, in my 20+ years as an analyst I have never met anyone who is looking for her or his model to be different from reality. The pursuit of accountants and analysts is the same: bringing our minds, and the models created by them, into accord with reality. The respondents to this poll believed that accrual accounting was better than half a representation of reality. In most models of reality that would be considered high praise, especially ones where human judgment/free-will is involved.

Yours, in service,

Jason