I say off-topic because this post is not about a new feature or update to our platform. Jack Ciesielski was the creator/founder of the Analyst’s Accounting Observer. Jack and his team read financial statements and unwound practices that they thought were dubious to create what he thought was the better representation of key metrics. Jack ‘retired’ a while ago though he still serves on the EITF, the Investor Advisory Group of the PCAOB and the CFA Institute’s Corporate Disclosure Policy Council. I was fortunate to meet Jack as they were early directEDGAR customers (they were with us when we had to mail CDs with updates and they were a pilot customer when we toyed with providing NAS devices to our customers).

I reached out to Jack a bit ago to see how he was doing in retirement. I guess he can’t stop thinking about accounting/markets and business because he shared that he transitioned from the Analyst’s Accounting Observer to a weekly newsletter “The Weekly Reader”. In this Jack has curated some interesting reads as well as a brief take on why they made it into the newsletter. He also offers a couple of bonus rounds. Here is a link to the latest version (Jack Ciesielski WR 11/11/2022) – if you would like to be added to Jack’s mailing list just send him an email (jciesielski [some important symbol here] accountingobserver.com). At least with Jack we can be assured that he is not trying to make money off of your email address!