About

Farkhod joined JGA with more than 25 years of public accounting and audit regulation experience. Most recently, Farkhod helped one of our clients to lead an engagement team to perform integrated audit for its major accelerated filer, performed in-flights reviews for number of other clients, provided ad-hoc consultations to our clients in accounting, reporting and regulatory matters, and prepared and delivered trainings. 

Prior to joining JGA Farkhod held a ten-year tenure as a PCAOB inspector. Throughout his experience there, he inspected a variety of industries, focusing the last four years on financial services, insurance and mining. His experience positions him as a passionate and practical advisor to public accounting firms, assisting leadership in the implementation of the right controls, policies and practices throughout the organization. Prior to joining PCAOB, Farkhod has had over 15 years of audit experience in public accounting with each of the Big Four firms within the US and globally. He has deep technical accounting and auditing experience including: 

• Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) and IFRS 9

• Fair values and goodwill impairment

• Hard-to-measure investments (level 2 and level 3 securities)

• Mining industry

• Audits of internal control over financial reporting "ICFR"

• International Financial Reporting Standards (gained “IFRS
  Certification” from The Institute of Chartered Accountants in
  England and Wales in 2011) 

• SEC financial reporting and disclosure requirements

• US GAAP/IFRS conversions

Farkhod has a Master’s degree in Economics.

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