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Keith Reilly is a financial reporting consultant and covers accounting, auditing and
ethical standards, as well as governance and regulatory issues. He has some 40
years’ experience in the financial reporting field, most recently (July 2013) being the National Head of Professional Standards at Grant Thornton Australia, and a member of Grant Thornton’s International Public Policy Group, Independence Working Group, and IFRS Committee.

He was previously the technical director and advisor for Chartered Accountants
Australia & New Zealand (CAANZ), and has also worked with ASIC, been an advisor to a major institutional Australian stock broking firm, and a former Research Director and Auditor for two Australian Big 4 audit firms.

Keith consults, writes and lectures extensively on financial reporting issues.  He is a member of the IASB’s Advisory Body on IFRS for SMEs, a former member of the
AASB’s Urgent Issues Group and the APESB’s Code of Ethics Taskforce.

He is the Section Editor of Lexis-Nexis Corporations Law publications, a former
member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors Financial Reporting
Committee, and has been a member of various CAANZ, CPA Australia, and Institute
of Public Accountants Committees.

Keith is an Industry Fellow (International Governance and Reporting) with Macquarie University and is a part time lecturer in Macquarie University’s Bachelor and Master of Accounting and Corporate Governance program.

He provides consulting services on financial reporting issues to various companies, audit firms, not-for- profits, professional, financial, regulatory and government institutions.