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Newsletter Committee - Newsflash
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Newsletter Committee - Newsflash
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Ralph Brinkmann, Dipl.-Kfm., CPA, StB, MBLT
brinkmann@icm-mannheim.de
ralph.brinkmann@gcpas.org
Diplom-Kaufmann (master of business administration) Ralph Brinkmann, CPA, MBLT has been member of the Executive Committee and the Council of GCPAS since March 2001. He had studied business administration at the University of Mannheim and Pavia / Milan (Italy) and is acknowledged as Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Chicago / Illinois. He had studied business law and taxation at the faculty of law of the University of Mannheim and graduated as MBLT (Master of Business Law & Taxation). Since March 2001 he has been in charge of monitoring the expert activities of the respective CPA Panel of GCPAS and resides the GCPAS Standing Technical Committees as chairman in charge of the international (ISA Practice Committee) and the American audit standards (US GAAS Practice Committee). He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and of the Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS). As Audit-Manager/Prokurist in the sector of auditing and corporate finance he works for the internationally operating auditing company Ernst & Young in Frankfurt and Munich (beforehand, he has worked for Arthur Andersen in Frankfurt and Milan).
Part of his main duties comprise auditing and advising both US American as well as Italian clients of different lines of industries and sizes. Extra occupationally he delves into internationalizing of audit standards particularly with regard to the harmonization of audit standards in connection with the international expectation gap as PHD post graduate.
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Ulrich Britting, Dipl.-Kfm., WP, CPA
Ulrich.britting@ghp-revision.eu
www.ghp-revision.eu
ulrich.britting@gcpas.org
Ulrich Britting ist seit dem Jahr 2001 Mitglied der German CPA Society e.V. und seit Juli 2004 Chairman des Business Valuation Committee sowie Mitglied des IFRS/IAS-Practice-Committee.
Im Oktober 2004 wurde er zum Mitglied von Council und Executive Committee der GCPAS bestellt.
Ulrich Britting hat an der Freien Universität Berlin Betriebswirtschaft mit den Schwerpunkten Finanzierung und Steuern studiert und arbeitet seitdem im Bereich Wirtschaftsprüfung. Er ist seit August 2001 in New Hampshire als CPA lizenziert und seit Januar 2003 als Wirtschaftsprüfer bestellt und ist Mitglied im American Institut of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) sowie in allen wesentlichen deutschen Berufsorganisationen.
Er ist Geschäftsführer der GHP Revision GmbH einer mittelständischen Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft aus Hamburg mit Niederlassungen in Berlin und Frankfurt und beschäftigt sich schwerpunktmäßig mit den Themen IFRS und SOX. Die GHP ist beim Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) in den USA registriert und Mitglied in der IGAF Worldwide einer Vereinigung unabhängiger Wirtschaftsprüfungs- und Steuerberatungsgesellschaften. Ulrich Britting ist Mitglied im European Board der IGAF Worldwide.
Zu seinen Mandanten zählen neben mittelständischen Unternehmen auch deutsche börsennotierte Gesellschaften sowie Tochtergesellschaften SEC - gelisteter Unternehmen.
Vor seiner Zeit bei der GHP war Ulrich Britting als Geschäftsführer einer mittelständischen WPG und bei einer internationalen Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft (Ernst & Young AG, zuvor Arthur Andersen) in Hamburg tätig. Er hat dort unter anderem IAS/IFRS und US-GAAP Abschlüsse geprüft sowie Umstellungen der Rechnungslegung von Konzernen begleitet. Darüber hinaus hat er zahlreiche Mitarbeiterschulungen im Bereich der nationalen und internationalen Rechnungslegung und Prüfung in Deutschland und den USA gehalten. |
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Robert Kraska, Dipl.-Kfm., CPA
robert.kraska@de.ey.com
robert.kraska@gcpas.org
Diplom-Kaufmann (master of business administration) Robert Kraska, CPA, has been a member of the Council of GCPAS since July 2003. He had studied business economics at the University of Frankfurt and is licensed as Certified Public Accountant in Chicago/Illinois. Moreover, he is a member of the IAS/IFRS Practice Committees of GCPAS and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). He works in the field of auditing and corporate finance at the international auditing company Ernst & Young in Frankfurt (former: Arthur Andersen). His main duties are auditing and consulting of clients in Germany and in the US of various branches and sizes. |
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Prof. Dr. Peter Leibfried, Dipl.-oec., CPA, MBA
(President Executive Committee)
peterleibfried@fas-ag.de
peterleibfried@gcpas.org
Prof. Dr. Peter Leibfried has been the President of the German CPA Society since it was founded.
Peter Leibfried is working as president of FAS AG, which is a consulting company specialized on the international accounting. He had studied economics in Stuttgart-Hohenheim and in the USA and took his postgraduate degrees at the University of St. Gallen. As Professor at the Fachhochschule Calw, he supervises the field of international accounting and auditing.
Prior to his work for FAS AG Prof. Dr. Leibfried was working for the international auditing firm Arthur Andersen (today: Ernst & Young) in the field of audit and advising of companies of various branches and sizes and consulted numerous clients in the introduction of IAS/IFRS and US-GAAP.
Peter Leibfried is licensed as Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Chicago/Illinois and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Between 1999 and 2001 he has worked as academic assistant at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) at the faculty of financial accounting.
In November 2001 Peter Leibfried founded the Akademie für Internationale Rechnungslegung [Academy of International Accounting] (www.internationale-rechnungslegung). The concept of the seminars of this academy customized for the fields IAS/IFRS and US-GAAP and supplemented with related business economical topics.
Prof. Dr. Leibfried is the author of numerous articles and publications in the field of international accounting.
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Jörg Müller, Dipl.-Kfm., CPA, WP, StB,(Deputy President Executive Committee)
JoeMueller@aol.com
JoeMueller@gcpas.org
Jörg Müller has been a member of German CPA Society from the beginning and in March 2001 he has become Deputy President of German CPA Society. He is a member of the Education Committees and supervises the US-GAAP Practice and Ethics Committee as Chariman.
He had studied computer science economics in Siegen in the main fields of tax advising, auditing and economic law.
Jörg Müller is specialized for internationally operating medium-sized companies. He mainly deals with medium-sized companies, who are on the verge of becoming international planning to establish foreign distribution structures or branches.
Jörg Müller is licensed as Certified Public Accountant in Cleveland/Ohio and a licensed member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) as well as of various transatlantic organizations.
Since 1997 he maintains his own homepage and a discussion forum for US-GAAP (www.joemueller.de) in order to facilitate the leap into international accounting for students and to provide a fast and unbureaucratic exchange for pracitcians.
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Alexander Spieß, Dipl.-Kfm., CPA, StB
alexander.spiess@falk-co.de
alexander.spiess@gcpas.org
Diplom-Kaufmann (master of business administration) Alexander Spieß, CPA, Steuerberater (tax advisor) has been member of the Executive Committee and of the Council of GCPAS since July 2003. He had studied business administration at the University of Mannheim. He passed the tax advisor's examination in 2000/2001 and has been appointed as tax advisor since 2001. Moreover, he is acknowledged as Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Chicago/Illinois. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS).
Since July 2003 Alexander Spieß has been member of the GCPAS-Standing Technical Committees in charge of the US accounting (US GAAP Committee) and US audit standards (US GAAP Practice Committee).
As Partner he works in the fields of auditing and corporate finance at the auditing company FALK & Co GmbH (member of Moores Rowland International (MRI) an association of independent audit and tax advising companies) in Heidelberg. His main duties include the audit and (tax) advising of international clients of different lines of industries and sizes, which primarily range in the field of mid-sized businesses.
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Steve Staresinic, BBA, CPA (President of Council)
staresinicsteve@hotmail.com
staresinicsteve@gcpas.org
Steve Staresinic has been a member of the GCPAS Council since 2001.
During his many years as Audit and Consulting Manager with Price Waterhouse and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Stuttgart, New York and Frankfurt, he audited and advised German universal banks and investment companies in their initial application of IAS/IFRS, US GAAP and SEC Reporting requirements. He later served as a manager in the corporate accounting department at the Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt, where he was responsible for policy formation and implementation of IAS/IFRS and US GAAP. Subsequently he was the project manager responsible for the US GAAP implementation at one of Europe¿s leading retail companies.
Steve Staresinic has been working as an independent CPA since the beginning of 2003, enabling several mid-sized companies to comply with German and American accounting and reporting requirements effectively and efficiently. He is also the lead consultant and instructor with Ortman Training and Consulting GmbH, which has specialized in assisting companies in the practical implementation of US GAAP and US regulatory reporting requirements, and has for many years successfully trained and prepared European professionals for the CPA examination.
He graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelors Degree in Accountancy and Philosophy. He is licensed as a CPA in his home state of Pennsylvania and in the State of Minnesota.
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Klaus Wendlandt, Dipl.-Oec., CPA, StB (inactive) (Director General CPA-Panel)
klauswendlandt@aol.com
Klaus.Wendlandt@gcpas.org
Mobil. 0173 / 39 68 857
Klaus Wendlandt is member of the Executive Committee since its foundation on April 14th, 2000. He is managing the IFRS Practice Committee as Chairman and is Director General of the CPA Panel.
Klaus Wendlandt studied in Stuttgart-Hohenheim economics and specialised in taxes, financing and accounting. He is working in the finance department of an automotive supplier as a director finance. During his working life he gathered extensive working experience in an auditing and tax consulting firm, in an international oriented, well-known German bank and in the industrial area.
Klaus Wendlandt is CPA and tax consultant (Germany). He is certified as Certified Public Accountant since May 2000 in Delaware and member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
He is Director General of the CPA Panel. In this function he held various presentations and seminars. Additionally, he is author of several articles on IFRS topics and changes of the accounting in Germany. Furthermore, he is teaching in the fields of international accounting and changes of the accounting in Germany since several years.
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