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Man of values
After a long career fighting for quality international accounting standards, Sir David Tweedie, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Valuation Standards Council, tells Nicky Burridge how he is now trying to get valuers recognized globally as true experts
When Sir David Tweedie, moved into private sector accounting, he was shocked by what he discovered.
It was the late 1980s and Tweedie, who had previously worked as an academic and was technical director of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS), had taken up a post as national technical partner at KPMG in London, following the firm’s creation through the merger of KMG Thomson McLintock and Peat Marwick.
“I started to become absolutely horrified at some of things that were going on and the schemes the investment bankers were coming up with. They were managing to show debt as equity or manipulating profits. I spoke out a lot and wrote articles about it,” says Tweedie, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC), the independent global standard-setter for the valuation profession.
At the time, the United Kingdom government had set up a committee with the various accounting institutes to look into accounting p
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There are challenging times ahead for accountancy in 2005 with regulation,
international standards and auditor liability high on the agenda. Accountancy
Age identifies the Top 50 movers and shakers to look out for as the issues
unravel
1. Sir David Tweedie
Chairman of the IASB
Sir David Tweedie will not be resting on his laurels following his
Accountancy Age Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession. He has yet
to resolve the sticky issues surrounding IAS39 to make Europe’s listed
companies’ accounts truly comparable. Aside from this, Sir David will have his
hands full with a comprehensive overhaul of accounting in the insurance
industry, and the small matter of convergence with the US. He remains the most
influential figure in the profession.
2. Mary Keegan
Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers
Keegan, former chairman of the UK Accounting Standards Board and partner at
PricewaterhouseCoopers, was always meant for bigger things. Now that the
national accounting standards boards have been overshadowed by the IASB, her new
position as head of the government accountancy service is the perfect next step
for the the ambitious, intellectually hardy Keegan. She now has responsibility
for accountability in public finance, and acts as the Treasury’s finan