IASB’s Global Preparers Forum appoints new member

Ellichipuram Umesh

Mon, June 8, 2026 astatine 6:23 AM CDT 1 min read

The International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) Global Preparers Forum (GPF) has appointed Geetika Arora arsenic a member.

Arora has been initially appointed for a play of 5 years.

Arora joins the forum with acquisition arsenic a preparer astatine a “large multinational”, including enactment connected implementing planetary accounting standards and supporting IFRS adoption.

She is presently serving arsenic manager of Accounting Policy and Financial Reporting astatine IBM, wherever she leads a squad that oversees the appraisal and accordant exertion of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles policies and the rollout of caller International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) accounting standards.

In this role, she is liable for processing method accounting positions that enactment IBM’s Securities and Exchange Commission-compliant fiscal reporting and monitoring the azygous exertion of IFRS policies.

Prior to joining IBM, Arora held method accounting roles astatine Deloitte and Infosys.

The GPF operates independently of the IASB and the IFRS Foundation and is intended to springiness the IASB regular input from preparers of fiscal statements worldwide.

An IFRS connection said: “GPF members are established commentators connected accounting matters and person sizeable applicable acquisition of fiscal reporting, either done their careers oregon by their enactment with typical bodies.

“Members are drawn from a assortment of manufacture and geographical backgrounds and are selected by the GPF connected the merits of their nonrecreational competence and applicable preparer acquisition to lend to the improvement of high-quality planetary accounting standards.”

Last month, the IASB issued an Exposure Draft mounting retired a constricted amendment to the IFRS for SMEs [small and medium-sized enterprises] Accounting Standard.