Leaders from FEI's Current Financial Reporting Issues Conference

Nov 16th, NYC

 

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Frank Brod - Chief Accounting Officer, Microsoft, FASB EITF Member and past-Chairman of FEI's Committee on Corporate Reporting. Frank discusses Sarbanes-Oxley 404 changes and the uncertainty in financial reporting in these times.

 

Richard Schrader - EVP & CFO of Parsons Brinckerhoff and FEI's National Chairman. Rich discussess the changes in the corporate boardroom with directors increasing their activity and oversight.
 
Robert Herz - FASB Chairman. Bob addresses the FASB's efforts to improve accounting standards, converge with the IASB and reduce complexity. He also discusses the business combinations project and the constituent input process to all projects.
  Colleen Cunningham - FEI CEO and President. Colleen talks about the conference and FEI's 75th anniversary celebration.
 
Harry Zike - CFO of Siemens Automotive, North America. Harry talks about the global talent pool and the challenges of retaining great people and Siemens implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to comply with EU requirements.
 
Greg Jonas - Managing Director, Moody's Investor Service. Greg discusses a users perspective on Sarbanes-Oxley 404. He was part of the conference panel on addressing complexity in financial reporting and he discusses that subject here too.
 
Grace Hinchman - Senior Vice President of FEI. Grace talks about the post-election changes in Washington and their impact on regulatory changes in process there.
 
Norman Strauss - Professor of Accounting, Baruch College, former E&Y national office accounting standards partner. Norm talks about the continuing shift to fair value accounting.