IFRS and US GAAP, with Website: A Comprehensive Comparison

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Steven E. Shamrock is and has been a practicing accounting professional for twenty-two years, ten of those years as a controller. During his career, Steven has led accounting teams in both large, multinational public companies and smaller, entrepreneurial enterprises. He has used IFRS simultaneously with US GAAP for eight years. He is a frequent speaker at AICPA and IFRS Foundation events. Steven was a member of the AICPA Special Advisory Group for the creation of the AICPA’s IFRS Certificate Program. Steven has also taught IFRS to executives in both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been a contributing author to other Wiley publications. His motivation for writing this book is to further the competent use of IFRS by US accounting professionals to empower them in the world of two pervasive accounting standards. US accountants need to know both standards given the large foreign ownership of US companies.

Steven is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, but has resided in Naperville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, for most of the past ten years with his wife Lisa, and twin sons, Pete and Luke. Steven wishes to thank his wife and sons for their unyielding support during the writing of this book. He also wishes to thank his father, Edward, also an accountant, and his mother, Tina for their positive support.

Steven is a CPA, has a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, and an MBA in Economics from DePaul University ...