Professor Elam

Tuesday Feb 9 2010

I have added some links to make it easier to expand your world view. 

The accounting links are to blogs by other accounting professors and writers. These tend to focus more on accounting issues such as the activities of the SEC and the PCAOB. 

The View from Abroad consists of various English newspaper sites from around the world. It helps to read different perspectives to have a world view.  I considered adding China Daily but frankly it looked more like People Magazine than something independently written in Beijing. When I saw a newly released 1961 photo of Marilyn Monroe in the China Daily courtesy of Reuters, well, not what we are seeking here.  We will change these from time to time there are so many webs with different viewpoints now. 

The economic blogs are particularly well done and contain lots of specific financial news you will not read in the papers. 

Let me know what you think about the selections, we are open to new ideas. 

As always my posts will be about the effect that accounting and financial events have on our lives and society. As Oliver Stone says, Money Never Sleeps. 

For example, here is an article from the Japan Times about Japan bashing via Toyota, a different point of view than one gets in say the Detroit, Michigan newspaper. Come to think of it that would be a good example, here is the same subject but with the Detroit point of view. There is of course nothing here about how the US Govt nationalized GM and is no doubt subject to UAW influence to move Americans away from Japanese autos to those made in economically shrinking Detroit.