The Top 10 People in Accounting, 2012 —Accounting Today
Top Vote-Getters Include Fed Honchos, Private Sector Leaders, and Association ChiefÂ
Who’s the most important person in Accounting? Is it Leslie Seidman (Chairman of the FASB), Hans Hoogervorst (Chairman of the IASB), or Douglas Shulman (Commissioner, IRS)?  Or instead, might it be James Doty (PCAOB Chair), Mary Shapiro (SEC), or even an as-yet-unnamed person—our next president? Or someone else entirely? Find out how respondents voted in an Accounting Today survey.
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 113 candidates.
Survey Respondents Name the Top 10 Most Important People in Accounting for 2012
