Mary Tokar  | 

International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) Member Mary Tokar discusses how the IASB and the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board are working more closely together to improve both sets of standards. Both boards provide feedback for their respective work plans, the development of standards, and their conceptual frameworks to improve the usefulness of the information their standards are designed to facilitate.

Mary Tokar

Partner, Financial Reporting Group, KPMG

Mary Tokar heads KPMG's Global International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Group, which is based in London. Mary is from KPMG in the US, where she worked in the New York office and the Department of Professional Practice. She also worked for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 1994 - 2000. While there, she led the SEC's involvement in the International Accounting Standards Committee's (IASC's) core standards work program and chaired the international regulators' working group on accounting and disclosure.