Bob Herz, Chairman of FASB to be North American Keynote for ShareComp 2010. Feb 23, 2010. Find out how to attend for free!

ShareComp 2010 (more info here) is thrilled to announce that Bob Herz, Chairman of FASB (bio below) will be the North American Keynote.  The Keynote will be available on Feb 23, 2010 at 9AM ET and again at 9AM PT.

"International Convergence of Accounting and Reporting and Potential Adoption of IFRS in U.S."

This Keynote has been sponsored by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, a founding Gold Sponsor of ShareComp 2010



 

You can register for this ground-breaking virtual event by going to http://tinyurl.com/ylkdwsm. Use the sponsor code "MSSB" to waive the $295 registration fee GET IN FREE.

ShareComp 2010 is supported by the NASPP (sponsor code "NASPP"), NCEO (sponsor code "NCEO"), ifs Proshare (sponsor code "ifsproshare") and CEPI (sponsor code "cep").  In fact, the CEPI is offering continuing education credit for the scheduled presentations you attend!

The full agenda for the event will be posted next week.  Sessions will include experts covering international equity, FAS 123R (ASC 718) and IFRS2 issues, performance equity, employee communications and more.

There is no reason to miss this event.  If you can't attend the live event on 23 February 2010, you can always access the event on-demand at any time through 22 February 2011.  It costs nothing, requires no travel and provides excellent education and networking opportunities. No risk, All reward!

This event was inspired in part by the networking growth seen at the ECE and the difficult impact of the economy on professionals having the time and money to leave the office for traditional events. You can even use the connections you make at the event to build more effective meetings at the physical conferences you choose to attend!

Go to www.sharecomp2010 for more information or send me an email directly.  dwalter@performensation.com

 
 
Keynote Speaker Bio
Robert H. Herz
Chairman, FASB

Robert H. Herz was
appointed chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB),
effective July 1, 2002, and was reappointed to a second term effective
July 1, 2007. Previously, he was a senior partner with
PricewaterhouseCoopers.


Before 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
(IASB). Mr. Herz is both a certified public accountant and a chartered
accountant.


Mr. Herz joined Price Waterhouse 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.


During his distinguished career, Mr. Herz has authored numerous
publications on a variety of accounting, auditing, and business
subjects. Included among those contributions is the recent book, The
Value Reporting Revolution: Moving Beyond the Earnings Game, which he
co-authored.


Over the course of his career, Mr. Herz gained significant
investment experience, having held positions involving fiduciary and
investment management responsibilities for significant pension plans,
endowment funds, and other types of pooled investments.


Among Mr. Herz’s other activities, he chaired the AICPA SEC
Regulations Committee and the Transnational Auditors Committee of the
International Federation of Accountants, and served as a member of the
Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF), the FASB Financial Instruments Task
Force, the American Accounting Association’s Financial Accounting
Standards Committee, the SEC Practice Section Executive Committee of
the AICPA, and the International Capital Markets Advisory Committee of
the New York Stock Exchange.