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Frank has extensive experience addressing accounting and reporting issues for the real estate healthcare software entertainment and manufacturing industries.
Professional Experience
Prior to joining Huron Frank was a partner overseeing the Financial Reporting Services Practice at Callaway Partners now a Huron Consulting Group Practice.
Previously he was Vice President - Financial Reporting for HealthSouth Corporation. He joined HealthSouth in June 2004 in the wake of one of the largest accounting frauds in U.S. history to help rebuild the Company's accounting organization and infrastructure. Before that Frank was a Partner with BDO Seidman in the accounting principles group of the Firm's National Assurance Department. From 1994 - 2001 he was a project manager with the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).
Frank also assisted in the preparation of two Special Reports A Guide to Implementation of Statement 115 on Accounting for Certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities and Reporting Interests in Joint Ventures and Similar Arrangements.
Frank has been actively involved in financial accounting and reporting matters since 1982. Frank's extensive experience includes accounting for business combinations corporate restructurings leases revenue recognition (including those in the software and motion picture industries) equity method investments and consolidations including the implementation of FASB Interpretation No. 46 (Revised) Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities.
Frank was a member of the AICPA's FASB Statements No. 141 142 and 144 Auditing Guidance Task Force.
Frank was also an audit manager with Arthur Andersen.
Education & Certifications
Bachelor of Science Accounting Illinois State University
Certified Public Accountant Florida and Illinois
Certified Management Accountant
Publications
Frank is the author of the chapter on construction accounting in The IASC-U.S. Comparison Project: A Report on the Similarities and Differences between IASC Standards and U.S. GAAP. He was also responsible for maintaining and updating the following publications: Accounting for Business Combinations Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets - Interpretations of U.S. and International Accounting Standards (Aspen Publishers) and the chapter on Financial Reporting Requirements Corporate Controller's Manual (Warren Gorham & Lamont).
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