About the Authors
Abbas Ali Mirza is an audit partner with Deloitte & Touche ME and is a member of the firm’s regional International Financial Reporting Standards leadership team. He is featured on Deloitte’s global accounting website, www.iasplus.com, as a Deloitte IFRS leader.
Abbas has published a number of well-known IFRS books, including Practical Implementation Guide and Workbook for IFRS, currently in its third edition (John Wiley & Sons, 2011), wherein he has been the lead coauthor since its inception, and IFRS Interpretations and Application, as coauthor since its inception in 1997 (John Wiley & Sons). He has published articles on IFRS in leading international journals and newspapers and coauthors a popular column titled “Bottomline” for a leading business newspaper.
Abbas is a frequent keynote/principal speaker at major IFRS conferences globally and has chaired the World Accounting Summit for seven years since its inception in 2005. He also addressed the World Accounting Congress of Accountants sponsored by the International Federation of Accountants in 2006.
Abbas was elected chairman of the Inter-Governmental Working Group of Experts on International Accounting and Reporting at the twenty-first session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva, Switzerland.
He has held several other key positions of repute, including
- Chairman of the Auditors’ Group, Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Former member of the Accounting Standards Committee, ...
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