Rod Anderson (as consultant)

Curriculum Vitae

'SwallowHill', 1940 Hill 60 Rd., R.R.5,
Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
K9A 4J8
tel: (905) 372-2410
fax: (905) 372-6274
e-mail: rod@rodmer.com

Personal data

Professional career (1956 - 1983)

Professional writings (1966 - 1999)

Subsequent professional activities (1991 - 1999)

Extra-curricular activities

Personal data

Background

Born Toronto, Canada, 1935
Lived in Toronto for 55 years
Now lives in Cobourg with his artist wife, Merike Lugus
Has son and daughter (both married) and five grandsons

Education

BA (Chemistry) University of Toronto, 1956
CA (Ontario Gold Medal), 1959; FCA, 1969

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Professional career (1956 - 1983)

With Clarkson, Gordon & Co. (now Ernst & Young)

Joined in 1956
Became a CA 1959
Became a partner in the firm 1963
Managing Partner of the Toronto Office (1979 - 1982)
Member of the Executive Committee (1979 - 1983)
Left the accounting profession in 1983 to spend full time writing

With the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants

Served on Study Group on Auditing Techniques (1964 - 1966)
Served on Special Committee on Computers (1966 - 1967)
Served on Study Group on Computer Control and Auditing (1968 - 1974),
which published Computer Control Guidelines and Computer Audit Guidelines
Served on Accounting and Auditing Research Committee (1971 - 1973)
First Chairman of the Auditing Standards Committee (1973 - 1975)
Co-chairman of CICA's first Auditing Symposium at Laval (1977)

With Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants

Awarded FCA 1969
Member of Council 1979 - 1983
Member of the Executive Committee 1982 - 1983

With the Canadian Comprehensive Auditing Foundation

Chairman of CCAF's first Annual Conference (1980)
Chairman of the Sectoral Committee on Institutions (1981 - 1983)

With the Office of the Auditor General of Canada

Served on Independent Advisory Consultant to Auditor General on Government Accounting and Auditing Standards (1979 - 1983)

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Professional writings (1966 - 1999)

Co-author of Analytical Auditing (Pitman, Toronto, 1966): describing a systems-based approach to auditing (published also in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish translations)
Author of The External Audit (Pitman, Toronto, 1977): a 2-volume general auditing text widely used in Canada in the 1980s
Co-author of Dollar-Unit Sampling (Copp Clark, Toronto, 1979): a text on statistical sampling for auditors (won the Gold Medal of the American Accounting Association)
Numerous articles in professional journals (mainly 1960 to 1983; a few more recently): The latest one was probably the article on "Canadian innovation on the information highway: some lessons", published in the Vol 27 No 2 1997 issue of Optimum, The Journal of Public Sector Management

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Subsequent professional activities (1991 - 2001)

[After seven years of writing poetry, short stories, reviews, opera libretti, and growing vegetables, and such, I returned part-time to do some professional work. Hey, I needed the money.]

With Ernst & Young Canada

Consultant to the firm on Information Technology (1991 - 1992)
Facilitator to the Executive Committee of the firm on Strategic Planning (1992 - 1993)
Consultant to the firm on Knowledge and Internet matters (1994 - 1997)

With Ernst & Young International

Member of the Audit Innovation Visioning Group (1993 - 1994)

With the Office of the Auditor General of Canada

Served as an Independent Advisor to the Auditor General (1992 - 2001)

With the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (1999 - 2001)

Served as a Consultant on the Project "Accounting for the Creation of Value" within the CICA's Canadian Performance Reporting Initiative (CPRI)

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Extra-curricular activities

President of Canadian Opera Company (1969 and 1977) -- and board member (1962 - 1980)
Director of Young People's Theatre (c.1965 - 1970)
Director General of Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (1999) -- and board member (1969 - 2004)
Member of the Advisory Council to the School of Business, Queen's University (1978-80)
Chairman, Finance and Operating Committee, Northumberland Orchestra Society (1997)
Artistic Adviser and Master of Ceremonies for the NOS Cobourg Celebration Concert (1998)
Panelist on the LWRD/OFANA [Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Opera for a New America] panel of Opera America (1995)
Chairman of the Internet Committee of the League of Canadian Poets (1996)
Treasurer, University Club of Toronto (1968)
Member, York Club (Toronto) (1980 - 1986)
Member, Kappa Alpha Society (VT) (1952 - present)

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Other CVs

The above CV is my CV as consultant. Two alternative CVs are:

[Obviously, the result of a certain lack of focus. Some people just can't decide what they want to do.]

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