Edward Rands was for eleven years the Risk and Professional Standards partner at a large independent firm of chartered accountants.
He led the firm’s technical team, which was responsible for maintaining and updating accounting and auditing knowledge, and for dealing with complex problems and queries as they arose.
He was also the founder chairman of the UK technical committee of his firm’s international network, and a contributing author of the network’s commercially published IFRS manual.
He now works as an independent consultant, advising firms on technical and regulatory matters.
