Top 100 Most Influential People in Tax and Accounting

I am honored (and surprised) to be included on the list of Accounting Today's Top 100 Most Influential People.  The magazine contains one-sentence explanations of why each of the folks made the list; here is mine:

"Launched in 2004, Caron's blog has since become a valuable hub for academics and practitioners."

I am honored to be on the list with such high-powered people in the tax and accounting worlds, including:

Politicans:

• Sen. Max Baucus
• Sen. Charles Grassley

Government and Industry Group Officials:

• Robert Attmore (Chair, GASB)
• Christopher Cox (Chair, SEC)
• Mark Everson (Commissioner, IRS)
• J. Russell George (Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration)
• Robert Herz (Chair, FASB)
• Barry lenason (President & CEO, AICPA)
• Mark Olson (Chair, PCAOB)
• Nina Olson (National Taxpayer Advocate, IRS)
• Henry Paulson (Secretary of the Treasury)

• David Walker (Comptroller General)

CEOs of Major Accounting Firms:

• Samuel DiPiazza (PriceWaterhouseCoopers)
• Timothy Flynn (KPMG)
• Edward Nusbaum (Grant Thornton)
• James Quigley (Deloitte & Touche)
• James Turley (Ernst & Young)
• Jack Weisbaum (BDO Seidman

CEOs of Tax & Accounting Companies & Publishers

• Scott Cook (Intuit)
• Mark Ernst (H&R Block)
• Michael Lister (Jackson Hewitt)
• Roy Martin Jr. (Thomson Tax & Accounting)
• Kevin Robert (CCH)