The author appreciates helpful comments and suggestions from his dissertation committee, Rick Mergenthaler (chair), Mei Cheng, Jayanthi Sunder, and Jeff Yu. The author also is grateful for helpful feedback from an anonymous editor and two anonymous reviewers, Russ Golden (FASB chair 2013–2020), James Leisenring (FASB 1987–2000), Spencer Anderson, Musaib Ashraf, Brad Blaylock, Agnes Cheng, Lin Cheng, Andrew Cuccia, Katharine Drake, Scott Emett, Dipankar Ghosh, Karen Hennes, Max Hewitt, Jacob Jaggi, Steve Kaplan, David Kenchington, Noah Myers, Richard Price, Mason Snow, Jared Stanfield, Shyam Sunder (University of Arizona), Shyam Sunder (Yale), Laurie Young, and workshop participants at The University of Oklahoma, Utah State University, The University of Arizona, Santa Clara University, and The University of Missouri.