MEMBER MARY BARTH NAMED TO NEW IASB.

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CalCPA member Mary Barth, a professor of accounting at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, has been appointed to the International Accounting Standards Committee's new International Accounting Standards Board.

The new 14-member IASB has been charged with the responsibility of working toward a single set of high-quality global accounting standards.

Barth, the only American academic on the IASB, has conducted research on a...