We Wanted IFRS Insights—So We Went Straight To The Source

Reserved, technical, conservative... is generally what comes to mind when picturing the writer of an accounting standard. That was the image our IFRS team took to Frankfurt, to the annual IFRS conference hosted by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). Our plan was to corner one IASB board member in particular for insights—Mary Tokar, who literally helps write IFRS standards (and who, incidentally, worked as a partner within the KPMG network for several years).

Mary's CV is impressive: six-year member of the IFRS Interpretations Committee; KPMG global leader for employee benefit and share-based payment accounting; lead SEC representative for international accounting issues; IASB member since 2013 (now in her second term in 2017).