The Top People in Public Accounting - 2013
September 8, 2013 5:06 PM
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The Influential's Influential
Each year as part of our Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting list, we ask candidates for the list to name who they think are the most influential people in the field — and here they are, ranked by the number of votes they received from the 103 candidates.
(Ordinarily we'd do a Top 10, but we actually had four people tied for the No. 10 spot: the AICPA's Mark Koziel and Jim Metzler, the PCAOB's Lewis Ferguson, and Sen. Max Baucus.)
Ron Baker
Founder, VeraSage Institute
Terri Polley
President and CEO, Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF)
Barack Obama
President of the U.S.
Billy Atkinson
Chair, Private Company Council (PCC)
James Doty
Chair, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
Russell Golden
Chair, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
Mary Jo White
Chair, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Tom Hood
CEO and Executive Director, Maryland Association of CPAs (MACPA)
Barry Melancon
President and CEO, American Institute of CPAs (AICPA)
