Berkeley Award

for Distinguished Contributions to Financial Reporting

The Center for Financial Reporting and Management is pleased to announce Donald Kirk as the winner of the Berkeley Award for Distinguished Contributions to Financial Reporting for 2009.

The objective of this award is to recognize an individual in financial reporting that has demonstrated courage, leadership, stewardship, or other meritorious performance in the interest of providing financial information useful to investors in making investment decisions.

The winner was chosen from the nominations by a selection committee that consists of distinguished business leaders from industry, the accounting profession, investment profession, and academia. The recipient was honored at the Conference on Financial Reporting, held on November 6, 2009.

Following are the members of our distinguished committee for 2009:

Dennis Beresford
Professor
Former Chair
Financial Accounting Standards Board

Jack Ciesielski
Owner
R.G. Associates, Inc.

Mark Newsome
Chair
NYSSA Committee for Improved Corporate Reporting

Marie Hollein
President and CEO
Financial Executives International

Conrad Hewitt
Former Chief Accountant
Securities and Exchange Commission

Rich Lyons
Dean
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Rebecca McEnally
CFA Institute

George Staubus
Professor Emeritus
Haas

Michael Sutton
Former Chief Accountant
Securities and Exchange Commission

Sir David Tweedie is the 2008 winner of the Berkeley Award for Distinguished Contributions to Financial Reporting.

Past Award Winners: 2004 2006 2007

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