Billy M. Atkinson CPA

The Private Company Council (PCC) was established by the Financial Accounting Foundation in 2012 to work with the FASB to determine whether and when to modify U.S. GAAP for private companies. In 2010-11 Atkinson served as a sponsoring member of the Financial Accounting Foundation/AICPA/NASBA "Blue Ribbon Panel" on Accounting Standard Setting for Private Companies in the U.S. which issued its report in January 2011. Atkinson served as Board Chair of the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy in 2010 and chaired several of its key committees during his seven years on its board. Appointed by Texas Governor George W. Bush to the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy in 1999, Mr. Atkinson served as the Texas Board’s Presiding Officer from 2003 through September 2005. He now serves as chairman of the Texas Public Finance Authority which issues State supported debt to finance legislatively approved projects and facilities. A 1972 graduate of Texas A&M University, Mr. Atkinson has over 39 years of public accounting experience with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he was an audit and risk management partner in Houston from 1982 through his retirement in July 2011. He served as a member of the AICPA’s Governing Council from 2003 - 2006 and has had numerous leadership roles in the Texas Society of CPAs’ which presented him their "Meritorious Service to the CPA Profession" award in 2005, its highest honor. He currently serves on the board of Atkinson Candy Company, a 75 year old private candy manufacturer in Lufkin, Texas which has over 200 employees in Texas and Guatemala. In the fall of 2013, he was named by Accounting Today as one of America’s Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting.