Leslie
F. Seidman was named FASB chairman on Dec. 23. She had been acting
chairman since the retirement of Robert Herz on Sept. 30 and has
been a FASB member since 2003.
The SEC appointed James Doty PCAOB chairman and named Jay Hanson and
Lewis Ferguson members of the board. Doty is a Washington-based
securities lawyer and a former SEC general counsel. Ferguson, also a
Washington securities lawyer, served for more than three years as
the PCAOB’s first general counsel. Hanson is a partner and the
national director of accounting at McGladrey & Pullen LLP in
Bloomington, Minn., with responsibility for leading the firm’s
accounting standards group. He is chair of the AICPA’s Financial
Reporting Executive Committee and a member of FASB’s Emerging Issues
Task Force.
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