At the very start of 2011, the Blue Ribbon Panel on Standard-Setting for Private Companies officially recommended that the Financial Accounting Foundation establish a separate board to handle accounting for non-public entities. The panel, which was created in 2009 by the FAF, the AICPA and NASBA, and chaired by Moss Adams chief Rick Anderson (pictured), thus raised hopes that the age-old "Big GAAP-Little GAAP" controversy might be near its end.