# Professor Joshua Ronen weighs in on GE's recent announcement that the company is hiring a new, independent auditor for the upcoming fiscal year

1 Faculty News June 22, 2020 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/ezequielminaya/2020/06/22/ge-names-new-auditor-for-the-first-time-in-over-a-century/#6162519f2409) -- “'GE wants to somehow signal to the marketplace that things are going to change,' with the auditor switch, said [Joshua Ronen](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/joshua-ronen), an accounting professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

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