About two years ago, my post, FASB Shines a Light on “Going Concern”, summarized new disclosure rules that, for the first time, placed GAAP disclosure requirements on company management when preparing financial statements, based on their required consideration of the entity’s ability to continue as a going concern. The earlier post summarizes those new requirements. Since then, existing independent auditor/accountant reporting requirements were updated to respond to the changes required of management. Without reconsidering these changes here, I wondered whether any interesting observations could be made based on management’s and auditor’s responses to these new rules, which were first effective for calendar year 2016 and fiscal year 2017 financial statements. (more…)