The 100 Most Influential People In Tax And Accounting

I am honored to be included on the list of Accounting Today's 100 Most Influential People in Tax and Accounting for the tenth year in a row:

In the years since Caron was one of the few pioneering tax bloggers, a veritable host of others have sprung up, but none can match his authority, his comprehensive approach, or his willingness to doggedly, persistently pursue the long-term unfolding of the scandal around the IRS's targeting of conservative groups.

Accounting Today also quoted me in a sidebar on "The Quest for Work-Life Balance":

I fear that I have achieved work-life balance because work is my life! But seriously, it is a gift to be able to do a job that you love, so that the time you spend does not feel like “work.”

I am flattered to be on the Top 100 list with such high-powered people in the tax and accounting worlds, including:

• Tim Christian (Incoming Chair, AICPA)
• James Doty (Chair, PCAOB)
• Lynne Doughtie (Chair & CEO, KPMG)
• Cathy Engelbert (CEO, Deloitte)
• George Farrah (Executive Editor, Tax & Accounting, Bloomberg BNA)
• J. Russell George (Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration)
• Russell Golden (Chair, FASB)
• Orin Hatch (Chair, Senate Finance Committee)
• Stephen Howe (Managing Partner, EY)
• John Koskinen (Commissioner, IRS)
• Barry Melanson (President & CEO, AICPA)
• Robert Moritz (Chair, PriceWaterhouseCoopers)
• Barack Obama (President of the United States)
• Nina Olson (National Taxpayer Advocate, IRS)
• Brian Peccarelli (President, Tax & Accounting, Thomson Reuters)
• Paul Ryan (Chair, House Ways & Means Committee)

(2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)