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Wesley Bricker

SEC Chief Accountant Talks the Future of Financial Reporting

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I’m grateful for the opportunity to visit Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business and speak at the annual financial reporting conference for the fourth time. Many students who were starting their collegiate work here when I first spoke at this conference are now members of the graduating class.

I could use other examples in tracking changes to make the same point: the world stops for no one. Financial reporting is not exempt from change. This conference also provides an opportunity to talk about current issues in financial reporting and to peer into the future together and explore the role of

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SEC Chief Accountant Talks Financial Reporting and Innovation

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Thank you, Robert [Hodgkinson] for the kind introduction. Thank you, also, to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (“ICAEW”) for sponsoring this event. I am delighted to be in London and with you this afternoon. London continues to be recognized as one of the world’s leading international financial centers, along with New York and other highly globally connected cities. Whether in London or New York or my childhood town of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, people in every walk of life are affected by financial reporting, the cornerstone on which our process of capital allocation is built.

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