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Profile of Mr. PAUL SHARMAN (FCMA)
Paul Sharman is Founder and President of Focused Management Information Inc., a consulting and education firm. Paul has facilitated change initiatives with major organizations such as Volkswagen, DuPont, Kellogg, AT&T, US Army, Canadian Navy, Bell Canada, Canadian Pacific
Railways, Citibank, Hewlett Packard, Citibank, Inco, and others around the world.
Paul acted as the lead design consultant on many consulting projects. A number of these projects led to fundamental transformation of strategy in clients where the resulting customer and product profitability analysis provides significant influence over portfolio strategy formulation and
management.
Paul has trained thousands of people around the world through seminars in association with such organizations as Institute for International Research, York University, CMA Ontario, CGA Ontario and the Institute of Management Accountants as well as numerous in-house sessions for his clients. For the last 6 years, Paul has taught Performance Management to International MBA students at the Burgundy School of Business in France.
Paul has been referenced many times in professional and US national press on such topics as the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) and reform of the accountancy profession. 65 of his articles have been published in a variety of magazines and journals including for CMA Magazine, Strategic Finance
Magazine, the Thomson Reuters Journal, Cost Management and for other publications in the world.
A number of his articles received awards for Distinguished Contribution to Management Accounting from the Financial and Management Committee of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC).
Paul was President and CEO of The Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) based in Montvale, New Jersey. He was an active participant in the CEO committee of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) as well as a member of the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)
Advisory Board. He was named as one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People” in the US accounting world in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by “Accounting Today”.
From Dec’ 2010 to this day Paul serves as Councillor of the City of Burlington, Ontario and of the Region of Halton where he has achieved implementation of a 25 year strategic plan, risk management and value creation. Recently, after ten years Paul retired from being Editor-in-Chief
of the Thomson Reuters journal “Cost Management”.