credible author with non-credible blog

Tom Selling, author of the blog post,“Trying My Best to Save LOCOM for Inventory” is an accounting expert with his BS and MBA from Cornell University and a PhD in accounting from Ohio State University. He is the author to many research articles, professional journals, and reference materials. Mr. selling is also the co-founder of grove technologies that help project manager’s complete task easier. When reading his post, I felt it was written in a less professional manner. Coming from a man with such high credentials, I would have expected something a little more professional. He wrote the whole post defending one of his previous post with fallacies which made me start to not believe what he was saying from the beginning. He used appeal to authority when he brought up what the members of the Committee on Accounting Procedures believed back in 1947. That statement was also an appeal to tradition because what we thought and believed to be true in 1947 has changed in the subject of accounting. In his next paragraph he used another appeal to authority when repeating what a former FASB member said. Just because he was a former member of the FASB doesn’t mean he is correct. The post was published on September 1, 2014 by the Accounting Onion; a source that you would like had factual information. The website is actually owned by Tom Selling, the author of the fallacy filled post, and is paid for by the many ads that fill the screen. The purpose of the post was not to give information on how to save LOCOM for inventory but to argue with what a previous post comment said. The unscholarly language and off topic post took all credibility away from the article.