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Paul
Sharman is Founder and President of Focused Management Inc., a
consulting and education firm. In October 2010 he was elected
councillor of the City of Burlington, Ontario and councillor for the
Region of Halton. Paul is Editor-in-Chief of the Thomson Reuters
journal “Cost Management”.
Paul has facilitated change initiatives with major organizations
such as Volkswagen, DuPont, Kellogg, AT&T, US Army, Canadian Navy,
Bell Canada, Canadian Pacific Railways, Citibank, Hewlett Packard,
Citibank, Inco, and others around the world.
Paul was President and CEO of The Institute of Management
Accountants (IMA) based in Montvale, New Jersey. He established an
entirely new direction for the association, its members and staff.
He facilitated a complete restructuring of IMA’s governance and
Board of Directors, its staff structure, its products and services.
Until he left in 2008, he was an active participant in the CEO
committee of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) as
well as a member of the Extensible Business Reporting Language
(XBRL) Advisory Board. He was named as one of the “Top 100 Most
Influential People” in the US accounting world in 2005, 2006 and
2007 by “Accounting Today”.
Paul has trained thousands of people around the world through
seminars in association with such organizations as Institute for
International Research, York University, CMA Ontario, CGA Ontario
and the Institute of Management Accountants as well as numerous
in-house sessions for his clients. He is well known as a conference
speaker in many countries.
Paul has been referenced many times in professional and US national
press on such topics as the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) and reform of
the accountancy profession. 65 of his articles have been published
in a variety of magazines and journals including for CMA Magazine,
Strategic Finance Magazine, and for other publications in the United
States. A number of his articles received awards for Distinguished
Contribution to Management Accounting from the Financial and
Management Committee of the IFAC.
Paul is an Associate Chartered Management Accountant of Great
Britain
Contact Paul Sharman at:
psharman@focusedmanagement.com or
289
337 2297
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