David Cairns provided consulting and training services on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and authored several authoritative texts and academic papers on IFRS. He was the secretary-general of the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) from 1985 to 1994 and a member of the IASB's Working Group on Accounting Standards for Small and Medium-sized Entities. He was a member of the UK's Financial Reporting Review Panel.
Education:
M.Sc., London School of Economics
Bloomberg Tax Management Portfolios
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Pension Accounting (Portfolio 340)
The Portfolio, Pension Accounting, No. 340, comprehensively analyzes various authoritative pronouncements on accounting by pension plans for their holdings, and on employers
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Pension Accounting (Portfolio 5108)
Pension Accounting analyzes authoritative pronouncements on accounting by pension plans for their holdings and on employers accounting for pensions and other postretirement benefits.