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What you Need to Know About the New Standard
on Variable Interest Entities
LIVE Webcast
Jamie Mayer, CPA
Senior Manager, Accounting Principles Consulting Group
(Former FASB Practice Fellow)
Grant Thornton LLP
Jamie is a Senior Manager in Grant Thornton’s Accounting Principles Consulting Group (APCG), which consults with audit professionals and clients on technical accounting issues. Jamie’s primary areas of focus include transfers and servicing of financial assets, consolidation of variable interest entities, fair value, financial instruments, and other general banking topics. In addition, Jamie is the APCG liaison to the financial institutions practice.
Jamie recently returned to Grant Thornton after a two-year fellowship at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). While at the FASB, Jamie was one of the lead project managers on Statement 166, Accounting for Transfers of Financial Assets and was the lead project manager on FSP FAS 140-4 and FIN 46(R)-8, Disclosures by Public Entities (Enterprises) about Transfers of Financial Assets and Interests in Variable Interest Entities. In addition, Jamie was involved with various technical application and implementation projects addressing fair value measurement and other issues that affect financial institutions.
Prior to joining Grant Thornton’s Accounting Principles Consulting Group, Jamie worked in Grant Thornton’s Chicago audit practice, primarily serving public and nonpublic financial institutions, government-sponsored enterprises, credit unions, corporate credit unions, and mortgage banks.
Jamie speaks regularly on accounting issues affecting financial institutions and other industries. In addition, Jamie has developed and provided training to Grant Thornton professionals. He has also written various firm publications on accounting standards developments.
Jamie received a B.S./B.A. in accounting from The Ohio State University.
Jay D. Hanson
Partner, National Director of Accounting
McGladrey & Pullen, LLP
Jay Hanson is the National Director of Accounting for McGladrey & Pullen, LLP. He has overall responsibility for the Firm’s accounting guidance, training on all accounting topics, and leadership of McGladrey’s Accounting Standards Group.
Jay has been with McGladrey & Pullen since 1979 and became a partner in 1988. He has served clients ranging from small businesses and not-for-profit organizations to multinational public companies. He also has been responsible for the review and coordination of international SEC filings, establishing the credentials of RSM International affiliates to practice before the SEC, and development and coordination of local and national training programs.
Jay is a Certified Public Accountant who is licensed to practice in Minnesota. He is a member of the Emerging Issues Task Force of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and was previously the Task Force Chair of the Industry Working Group for the FASB’s Business Reporting Research Project. Jay currently is the Chair of the Accounting Standards Executive Committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Chair of the AICPA Derivatives Implementation Technical Practice Aid Task Force. He also is an Advisory Board Member for The SEC Institute, Inc. Jay is a frequent presenter at national industry, state society, and AICPA conferences.
Jay graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration, accounting and mathematics. He also has completed the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, RSM McGladrey Business Advisor School.
Adam L. Brown
National Accounting Department
BDO Seidman, LLP
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Louis Fanzini
Director of Technical Accounting and Research
Credit Suisse
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What you Need to Know About the New Standard on Variable Interest Entities
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