The span of influence wielded by most captains of industry will never match what controller Philip Ameen amassed and spent a career acquiring. The influence GE's top accounted once wielded came not just from an acute knowledge of accounting and finance, but from his influence in the process of creating or "setting" accounting standards -- an act of creation administered for the past four decades by the members of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
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GE's Top Accountant was no Ordinary Comptroller | Philip Ameen and The Last Crusade
The span of influence wielded by most captains of industry will never match what controller Philip Ameen amassed and spent a career acquiring. The influence GE's top accounted once wielded came not just from an acute knowledge of accounting and finance, but from his influence in the process of creating or "setting" accounting standards -- an act of creation administered for the past four decades by the members of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
The span of influence wielded by most captains of industry will never match what controller Philip Ameen amassed and spent a career acquiring. The influence GE's top accounted once wielded came not just from an acute knowledge of accounting and finance, but from his influence in the process of creating or "setting" accounting standards -- an act of creation administered for the past four decades by the members of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.