Robert H. Herz

Chairman, FASB

Robert H. Herz was appointed Chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), 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 was also President of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Foundation which supports college and university activities. 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 and a gold medal winner on the uniform CPA examination.

Mr. Herz joined Price Waterhouse in 1974 upon graduating from the University of Manchester in England with a B.A. first class honors degree in economics graduating top of his class. 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 headed Coopers & Lybrand’s corporate finance practice and served as audit partner on numerous major clients including AT&T, Dun & Bradstreet, Goldman Sachs, Shearson Lehman Bros, and Volvo.

Mr. Herz has authored numerous publications on a variety of accounting, auditing and business subjects, including the book, The Value Reporting Revolution: Moving Beyond the Earnings Game, which he co-authored. He is regularly quoted in the major news media and has appeared on a number of television and cable business shows.

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, 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 Committee of the New York Stock Exchange.

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