An International Meeting of the American Accounting Association 2005 Annual Meeting August 7–10, 2005 San Francisco, California Come to the City by the Bay!

Theme: "The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: A Three-Year Retrospective."

Dennis R. Beresford

Dennis R. (Denny) Beresford will be Tuesday's luncheon speaker. Beresford is Ernst & Young Executive Professor in the J.M. Tull School of Accounting at the University of Georgia. He also serves on the corporate boards of directors for MCI (formerly WorldCom), Legg Mason, and Kimberly-Clark. Before joining academic ranks he was senior accounting technical partner for Ernst & Young and originated the firm's highly regarded Financial Reporting Developments publications before being tapped in 1987 to serve the first of two five-year terms as chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). As the longest serving chairman of the FASB he led the Board's initial internationalization efforts as well as the establishment of the American Accounting Association- Financial Accounting Standards Board annual research conference.

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