Tricia O'Malley will chair AcSB
09 Apr 2009
Patricia (Tricia) O'Malley has been appointed Chair of the Accounting Standards Board of Canada (AcSB) effective in mid-June 2009.
Ms O'Malley had been the first full-time AcSB Chair starting in October 1999 prior to her appointment to the International Accounting Standards Board in January 2001. At the conclusion of her term on the IASB in June 2007, she became the IASB's Director of Implementation Activities, managing IFRIC Interpretations and improvements projects. Before becoming a full-time standard-setter, she was a partner in the National Assurance and Professional Practice Group of KPMG. Canada is adopting IFRSs as Canadian GAAP for publicly accountable enterprises for interim and annual financial statements relating to financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2011.
