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National Speaker Series 2009

This year's speaker series will feature Jay Hanson, National Director of Accounting for McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, who will speak on "Mark-to-Market: Fantasy or Reality." The talk is scheduled from 6:00-7:30 p.m. on Monday, October 12, in Room C20 Pomerantz Center. The event is free and open to the public.

As National Director of Accounting, Jay Hanson is responsible for the review and coordination of international SEC filings, establishing the credentials of RSM International affiliates to practice before the SEC, and development and coordination of local and national training programs. He is a member of the Emerging Issues Task Force of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and was previously the Task Force Chair of the Industry Working Group for the FASB’s Business Reporting Research Project. Jay currently is the Chair of the Accounting Standards Executive Committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Chair of the AICPA Derivatives Implementation Technical Practice Aid Task Force. He also is an Advisory Board Member for The SEC Institute, Inc.

Mark to Market: Fantasy or Reality? (speaker presentation)
Study on Mark-to-Market Accounting (Executive Summary)
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Statement

Previous Events

The 2008 speaker series featured Thomas J. Linsmeier (Member, Financial Accounting Standards Board), whose topic was "International Convergence and the Possible Use of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in the U.S."

The 2007 speaker series featured the "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour" with David Walker, Comptroller General of the U.S., as the featured speaker. This tour, which includes representatives from three ideologically diverse think-tanks (Brookings, Concord, and Heritage) has been featured on "60 Minutes". The purpose of the Tour is to explain in plain terms why budget analysts from across the political divide are increasingly alarmed by the nation's long-term fiscal outlook. See www.concordcoalition.org/events/fiscal-wake-up for more information.

View a video of the event.
View photos from the event.

View the slide presentations by:

Speaker	Powerpoint .ppt	Acrobat .pdf
Robert L. Bixby, Executive Director Concord Coalition
Stuart Butler The Heritage Foundation
Jason Furman, Senior Fellow and Director of The Hamilton Project The Brookings Institution
David Walker, Comptroller General of the United States

The topic of the 2006 National Speaker Series was "Financial Literacy: A Guide for the New Graduate." Speakers were Gary Previts, Associate Dean at Case Western Reserve University, and Mike Thomas, Director (Personal Wealth Management), RSM McGladrey.

The 2005 speaker series topic focused on obtaining results with effective performance measures. Professor Kenneth A. Merchant (University of Southern California) set the stage by providing a framework for measuring the performance of general managers. Milton Marcotte (RSM McGladrey) followed up with practical hints on implementation.

In 2004, Bruce Hopkins (Polsinelli, White, Vardeman and Shalton of Kansas City, Mo.) and Kay Hegarty (McGladrey & Pullen) were the featured speakers. They discussed how the Sarbanes-Oxley act, legislation designed to clean up the business practices in the private sector, has trickled down to the public sector - and the IRS and Congress are now paying close attention to business activities in the nonprofit community.

The 2003 series featured Leroy Dennis (McGladrey & Pullen) and Mary Sjuquist (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board), who discussed how corporate governance practices of public and private companies are changing and why more changes may be needed. View the webcast.

In 2002, Lynn Turner, former chief accountant at the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Bruce Webb, a McGladrey & Pullen National Audit & Accounting partner, discussed recent accounting scandals and the future of the accounting profession. View the webcast.