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Thomas Barbieri

CPA
Partner, Deputy Chief Accountant
PWC

Tom is the Deputy Chief Accountant leading the Financial Instruments Team of PwC's Accounting Services Group and has over 30 years of experience advising large financial services and multinational corporations on complex accounting issues. He is responsible for a team of accounting experts that specialize in advising on financial reporting issues relating to derivatives, loans, investment securities, preferred stock, leasing, securitizations, financial guarantees, and insurance.

During Tom's tenure in National, he has been at the forefront of emerging accounting issues and he has regular interactions with the Financial Accounting Standards Board, SEC and other nationally renowned accounting experts. Tom was recently a member of the AICPA's Insurance Expert Panel where during his tenure the Panel focused on issues relating to the Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) model and recently issued life insurance accounting models.

During the credit crisis, Tom was PwC's member on key working groups established by the AICPA's Center for Audit Quality to provide advice to the SEC, FASB and banking regulators on emerging issues including those relating to fair value accounting, investment impairment models, consolidation of variable interest entities, structured investment vehicles, commercial paper conduits, money market funds "breaking the buck", and troubled debt restructurings.

Tom recently returned to National after spending seven years in the Insurance Audit practice where he led in delivering audit services to property/casualty, life and mortgage guarantee clients. Tom has authored many articles on financial instruments, securitization and consolidation accounting and reporting matters.