Advisory Board

Holger Erchinger
KPMG LLP
757 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Phone: 212-909-5229
E-mail: herchinger1@kpmg.com

Background 
Holger Erchinger is an Audit partner in the IFRS Group in KPMG’s National Office in New York. Holger has 15 years of experience in serving different companies on audit, audit-related and consulting engagements (SEC registrants with US GAAP and IFRS financial statements) in KPMG’s operating offices in Munich and Berlin (1996-2002 and 2005-2008) and with Ernst & Young (1994-1996). Between 2003 and 2005 he had worked in KPMG’s National Office in New York in the SEC, Accounting and Practice Advisory Group.

Professional and Industry Experience
Holger is currently working in the IFRS Group with KPMG’s National Office in New York. His duties include consultation on a variety of IFRS related accounting, reporting and audit issues, reviews of IFRS financial statements, and development of firm’s guidance and publications. Holger has worked primarily for clients in consumer and industrial markets, manufacturing, information and communication, and service industry.

Representative Clients
Representative clients include: Siemens, SGL Carbon, CapGemini, Deutsche Post, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Whirlpool, Milacron

Academic Experience and Publications
Between 2006 and 2008 Holger had been a professor for IFRS at Berlin School of Economics and published about 25 papers and studies regarding IFRS, Convergence between IFRS and US GAAP, SEC related IFRS rules and regulations, and International Auditing Standards. These papers have been published in English and German language journals such as World Accounting Report, European Accounting Review, Die Wirtschaftspruefung, Zeitschrift fuer Internationale und Kapitalmarktorientierte Rechnungslegung or Der Betrieb. In addition, Holger had been teaching between 2000 and 2006 IFRS, Auditing and Corporate Governance at the University of Munich, University of Augsburg and University of Ingolstadt and has spoken on international accounting and audit issues at many conferences.