FASB Member to Speak as Part of Sufrin Lecture Series

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Thomas J. Linsmeier, a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), will speak on "Financial Reporting Issues Facing the FASB" at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22 in the Center for Tomorrow on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.

Linsmeier's visit will be sponsored by the Helen and Oscar Sufrin Endowed Lectureship, which brings distinguished business professionals to the UB School of Management to speak in the areas of accounting, finance, financial economics or financial management. Funding for the lectureship is provided through the generous support of Leslie Sufrin, C.P.A., and Gerald Sufrin, M.D., a long-time UB professor, in honor of their late parents.

Linsmeier, an award-winning teacher and researcher with expertise in financial reporting for derivatives and risk management activities, also will speak with UB students at 11 a.m. that day in 106 Jacobs Management Center.

A member of the FASB since 2006, Linsmeier formerly was the Russell E. Palmer Endowed Professor and chair of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at Michigan State University. He has served as an academic fellow and special consultant to the Office of the Chief Accountant at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), chair of the Financial Accounting Standards Committee and president of the Financial Accounting and Reporting section of the American Accounting Association. His work has been published in The Accounting Review; Journal of Accounting Research; Accounting Horizons; Management Science; Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance; Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting; and Financial Analysts Journal.

Linsmeier's evening presentation will be free and open to the public. For more information, contact Janet Kiefer at kiefer@buffalo.edu or at 716-645-3290.

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