Business Commons^™

Willard J. Graham: A Renegade Accountant, Grover L. Porter

Accounting Historians Notebook

While it may be somewhat unconventional to use the term "Renegade" in a positive sense, that is the way the authors are using the term to refer to the late Willard J. Graham who died in 1966. We are using the term to mean "one who rejects tradition" when to do so is in the best interests of the cause. In this case, the cause is to assure that "The information presented in accounting reports should be useful for making decisions".