Norman Strauss
Norman N. Strauss retired as a Partner of Ernst & Young LLP in September 2001 and is now in his new career as Ernst & Young's Executive Professor in Residence at Baruch College in New York City teaching contemporary accounting topics in graduate school. He was E&Y's National Director of Accounting Standards and a member of the Firm's Accounting and Auditing Committee. His duties included consultation on accounting issues and developing the Firm's positions and publications on accounting matters. He is a CPA and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He has a B.B.A. and an M.B.A. from Baruch College.
Mr. Strauss has been Ernst & Young's representative on the FASB's Emerging Issues Task Force and the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, and has served as Ernst & Young's and Baruch's representative on the Standards Advisory Council for the International Accounting Standards Board. He has previously served as Chairman of the AICPA's Accounting Standards Executive Committee (AcSEC) and chaired or served on various other Task Forces of AcSEC, including Task Forces on the Conceptual Framework of Accounting, LIFO, and Accounting for Stock Options. He is also a member of the Financial Reporting Committee of the Institute of Management Accountants. Mr. Strauss is a member of Financial Executives International and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Financial Executives Research Association. He was a member of the FASB's Impairment of Assets Task Force and Cash Flow Task Force. Mr. Strauss has frequently lectured to many business organizations on various accounting topics and has been published in the Journal of Accountancy and elsewhere. He has chaired Baruch's Annual Financial Reporting Conference since its inception in 2002. He also is on the Board of Amas Musical Theatre, a NYC non-profit arts group.
