Peter Kwong, CPA, ABV

Peter manages engagement teams involved with financial audits, financial consulting and other assurance services. He also created, developed and manages our Risk Management Practice Group. Sarbanes-Oxley is a difficult topic for many clients (certainly not one they choose willingly) but Peter somehow manages to help them to clearly understand its place in business and how to best live with it. Most importantly he helps them get the Sarbanes work done.

Most recently, Peter signed Perkins' first IFRS report on a Perkins client. He helped them transition from US GAAP stand alone financial statements to IFRS financial statements to help streamline the client's financial reporting process to their parent company and outside vendors. This included the client's first time adoption of IFRS under IFRS 1, "First-Time Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards." Peter also sits on BDO's IFRS Task Force Training Subcommittee, which is responsible for BDO Seidman and BDO Alliance firms' national training in the U.S.

As if that wasn't enough, Peter recently received his accreditation in business valuation (ABV) and is now working to expand the firm’s valuation scope of services related to fair value accounting, business combinations and derivatives.

Perhaps it was Peter's days as student body president at the University of Portland that prepared him for his commanding role. Before we landed this accounting ace, Peter worked as a corporate controller in private industry. He also spent 10 years at a national accounting firm.

Peter spends his free time volunteering at a local children's organization, Chess for Success, and spending time with his own young family. In 2007, he was named one of Portland's best 40 under 40 professionals by the Portland Business Journal, the first of Perkins' young titans to achieve this title.