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Centennial Symposium: Current Topics in Accounting
Key Note Speaker: Bob Herz, Chairman, Financial Accounting Standards Board
 Robert H. Herz was appointed Chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, effective July 1, 2002. Previously, he was a senior partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Prior to joining the FASB, Mr. Herz was PricewaterhouseCoopers North America Theater Leader of Professional, Technical, Risk & Quality and a member of the firm’s Global and U.S. Boards. He also served as a part-time member of the International Accounting Standards Board. Mr. Herz is both a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Accountant.
Mr. Herz joined Pricewaterhouse in 1974 upon graduating from the University of Manchester in England with a B.A. degree in economics. He later joined Coopers & Lybrand becoming its senior technical partner in 1996 and assumed a similar position with the merged firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1998.
Among Mr. Herz’s other activities, he chaired the AICPA SEC Regulations Committee and the Transnational Auditors Committee on the International Federation of Accountants, and served as a member of the Emerging Issues Task Force, the FASB Financial Instruments Task Force, the American Accounting Association’s Financial Accounting Standards Committee and the SEC Practice Section Executive Committee of the AICPA.
Event Schedule
- 8:00 – 9:30 Breakfast
Faculty & PhD Students
Myers Alumni Center
- 11:30 – 1:00 Lunch
Faculty, PhD Students, and Accounting Professionals
Myers Alumni Center
- 3:00 – 4:30 Plenary Speech
Faculty, Students and Accounting Professionals
Tangeman University Center
- 4:30 – 5:30 Reception
Faculty, Students and Accounting Professionals
Tangeman University Center
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