Manager, Transaction Accounting Services practice, KPMG LLP

Robert joined KPMG's Transaction Accounting Services practice in 2007. He advises clients on technical accounting issues under both U.S. GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

Previously, Robert was a staff member at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).  He served on the Postretirement Benefits (FAS 158; FSP FAS 158-1) and Leasing project teams and answered technical accounting inquiries from constituents on various FASB pronouncements.

Robert has extensive experience advising clients, including: regularly educating and assisting them in applying IFRS to specific transactions; identifying accounting policy "gaps" between U.S. GAAP and IFRS for multiple U.S. subsidiaries of a global financial institution in preparation for their conversion to IFRS; and assessing the accounting policy impact of a conversion from U.S. GAAP to IFRS for a large financial services company and two large U.S. power & utilities companies.

Robert has supported a U.S. insurance company as it converted the financials of a newly acquired European subsidiary from IFRS to U.S. GAAP. He also assisted a global insurance company with accounting for a $1.3 billion acquisition where the acquired entities had to report standalone U.S. GAAP financials while simultaneously reporting under IFRS for the group's consolidated financials. In addition, Robert provided real-time IFRS support to a private investment firm as it developed various fund structures to market to its potential banking clients; and he helped a U.S. software company convert its historical U.S. GAAP financials to IFRS upon its acquisition by a European company.

Robert holds an internal KPMG certification to work on IFRS-related engagements and participates in regular IFRS trainings on recent developments and expected future changes.