06/01/2011
Patrick Parent takes charge of accounting affairs at French regulator
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The French financial market authority AMF on 5 January announced the appointment of Patrick Parent as director of accounting affairs, effective 3 January. He succeeds Sophie Baranger, who becomes director of investigations and market surveillance at the AMF. Parent will represent the AMF in the College of the Authority for Accounting Standards (ANC), the High Council of the Account Commissariat (H3C) and in permanent groups which handle accounting standards and audit at ESMA and the OICV. Parent, who entered the COB in 2003, spent four years as director in charge of accounting doctrine. In that role he participated as OICV representative in meetings of the IFRS Interpretation Committee (formerly known as IFRIC, the committee in charge of interpretation of IFRS accounting standards, and the XBRL Advisory Council (XAC),
