Kazuo Hiramatsu

Kazuo Hiramatsu (平松 一夫 Hiramatsu Kazuo, born August 1947 in Kawanishi, Hyōgo) is a scholar of international accounting, who served as the 17th President of Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan from 2002 to 2008.[1] He graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University and received his Ph.D. in International Accounting. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Washington in 1977-1979, and a visiting professor at the University of Glasgow in 1991. His research interests are in financial accounting and international accounting.

Hiramatsu serves as a Professor of Accounting at the School of Business Administration and Graduate School of Business Administration. The scholar also served as the head of Admission Department since 1997-1999.

Within his country, he is serving as a director of the Financial Accounting Standards Foundation; a member of the CPA-Auditing Oversight Board and the Business Accounting Deliberation Council of the Japanese Ministry of Finance.

Hiramatsu is currently the Vice President-at-Large of the International Association for Accounting Education & Research, the President of the JAIAS and the 2005-2006 International Member-at-Large of AAA Council of American Accounting Association. He also served for International Accounting Standards Committee as a member of the Strategy Working Party during 1997-1999.

References

  1. "IFRS Foundation Trustees Meeting, Seoul 13 October 2010" (PDF). INFORMATION FOR OBSERVERS. IFRS. 13 October 2010. Retrieved 6 January 2011.


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