Ashwinpaul (Tony) C. Sondhi is currently a member of the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). From September 2001 to September 2003, he was a member of the Planning Subcommittee of the Accounting Standards Executive Committee (AcSEC) of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).

He has also been a member of the Global Financial Reporting Advocacy Committee and Chairman of the Financial Accounting Policy Committee of the CFA Institute. He served on the FASB Task Force on Accounting for Impairments of Long-lived Assets, and the Steering Committee for the Statement of Cash Flows of the International Accounting Standards Committee. He has taught at New York University, Columbia University, and at Georgetown University. He has been a Visiting Professor at Stockholm University, Sweden, and Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Mr. Sondhi received his Ph.D. in Accounting and Economics/Management Science in 1985 from New York University. His research has been published in several accounting and finance journals. He is a co-author of The Analysis and Use of Financial Statements, Third Edition, 2003. Mr. Sondhi has also edited Credit Analysis of Nontraditional Debt Securities, co-authored Impairments and Write-offs of Long-Lived Assets, and co-edited CFA Readings in Financial Statement Analysis, and Off-Balance Sheet Financing Techniques.

Mr. Sondhi serves on the Board of Directors of an investment advisory services firm and one charitable foundation and is an advisor to several U.S. and foreign companies. His consulting activities include revenue recognition, valuation, comparative analyses of financing and capital structure alternatives, creation and operation of finance, securitization, intellectual property, and investment subsidiaries, analyses of covenants and the development of debt agreements.

Please contact Dr. Sondhi at info@spectrum-consulting.com.