KPMG U.K. Chairman Diagnosed with COVID-19
The Financial Times reported this afternoon that Bill Michael, chairman of the Queen’s KPMG, has tested positive for COVID-19 and has been hospitalized. Mr Michael, who took over the Big Four accounting and advisory firm in 2017, has been in hospital for one week after becoming unwell but was only diagnosed with the Covid-19 virus […]
EY U.K. Has a ‘Waffles or Pancakes’ Decision to Make Soon
Unlike their American counterparts, none of the Queen’s Big 4 firms have ever had a woman in charge. It’s not going to happen anytime soon at PwC, as partners just re-elected Kevin Ellis for a second four-year term as chairman and senior partner. Richard Houston took over as Deloitte North West Europe and U.K. senior partner […]
Guy Who Cares Way More About Governmental Accounting Than You Do Is Next GASB Chair
Joel Black, partner in charge of the audit practice at Atlanta-based Mauldin & Jenkins, will be the next chair of the GASB, and he eats, sleeps, and breathes governmental accounting. “I am very excited to take on this new professional challenge,” said Mr. Black. “I have been immersed my entire adult life in the important, […]
FAF Did Not Pick You to Be FASB’s Next Chairman
Unless your name is Richard Jones and you’re chief accountant and partner at EY, then the Financial Accounting Foundation did pick you, congratulations. Jones will succeed nice neighborhood dad Russell Golden as FASB chairman after Golden’s term ends on June 30. Golden, a former Deloitte partner, has sat in FASB’s big chair since July 1, […]