Jonathan Howard

About Jonathan Howard

I am a partner in the National Office of Deloitte & Touche LLP (Deloitte). I am a senior consultation partner of the Financial Instruments Group in Accounting Services. In this role, I lead the group that provides accounting consultation to Deloitte client service personnel on financial instrument matters. My primary areas of responsibility are in the accounting for derivative instruments and hedging activities, debt and equity securities, structured financing transactions, transfers of financial assets (including securitizations) and accounting for loans (including impairments). I am also responsible for the development of the Firm’s guidance, communications and publications in those areas. In addition, I am responsible for assisting in preparing the Firm’s response to certain standard setting initiatives in the United States. I am Deloitte’s representative on the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Transition Resource Group for Credit Losses. In addition, I am Deloitte’s representative on the AICPA’s Depository Institutions Expert Panel. I previously was the Firm’s representative on the FAS 140 Servicer Discretion Resource Group, the EITF 03-1 (Other Than Temporary Impairments) Working Group, the EITF 12-D (Joint and Several Obligations) Working Group, and the Visa IPO Task Force.I am one of fourteen members of the global firm’s Financial Instruments Expert Advisory Panel for International Accounting Standards. In that role, I provide my views on the accounting for financial instruments to the firm’s Global IFRS Leadership Team.I received my B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles. I am a licensed CPA in the states of California and North Carolina.

Experience

1. Partner

   Deloitte

   Jan 1992 — Present · Stamford, CT, US

   Senior Consultation Partner for National Office Accounting Services Financial Instruments Group

Education

• UCLA

  BA

  1987 — 1992

Skills

• Consolidation
• Hedging
• Us Gaap
• Auditing
• Financial Reporting
• U.s. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (Gaap)
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Big 4
• U.s. Sec Filings
• Accounting
• Financial Services
• Financial Advisory
• Ifrs
• Financial Accounting
• International Financial Reporting Standards (Ifrs)
• Internal Controls
• External Audit
• Sec Filings
• Finance
• Securitization
• Cpa
• Financial Instruments
• Derivatives