CA ANZ MEDIA RELEASE: AUSTRALIAN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT FELLOW ELECTED AS DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF GLOBAL ACCOUNTANCY BODY

13 November 2024

AUSTRALIAN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT FELLOW ELECTED AS DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF GLOBAL ACCOUNTANCY BODY

Chartered Accountants ANZ warmly welcomes the election of Australian Taryn Rulton FCA, FCPA, GAICD as the deputy president of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) – the global voice of the accountancy profession.

Ms Rulton is the second Australian woman to take on an IFAC board leadership position, following CA ANZ past president Rachel Grimes AM, FCA, FCPA – who rose from IFAC deputy president to president in 2016 – and follows former CA ANZ chief executive officer Lee White’s appointment as IFAC CEO in March this year.

Current CEO of CA ANZ and Chair of Chartered Accountants Worldwide, Ainslie van Onselen, described Ms Rulton as an outstanding and highly experienced choice to become IFAC deputy president.

“Taryn’s tireless advocacy for accounting and its ethics and her strong interest in AI and its impacts, will serve the global profession well,” Ms van Onselen said.

Ms Rulton’s 30-year career spans finance, the public sector, and not for profit entities. She is currently the Chief Commercial Officer at La Trobe University in Melbourne and serves as a non-executive director and audit committee chair at Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network and Possability, a national disability and children's services provider. 

Her outstanding service to the profession saw Ms Rulton receive the CA ANZ Meritorious Service Award last year. She has served on the Australian Accounting Standards board and as chair of CA ANZ’s Victorian Council and was also highly active in the CA Advisory Group (CAAG), counselling and supporting Chartered Accountants facing ethical dilemmas and career decisions. Ms Rulton also served on the Victorian Public Sector Panel.

Ms van Onselen described Ms Rulton’s appointment as another example of Australians and New Zealanders being both well respected and represented in the profession’s global standard setting ecosystem.

“In addition to Taryn’s and Lee’s appointments at IFAC, we are proud that all the Australians or New Zealanders now sitting on the boards of the International Audit and Assurance Standards Board, the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants, the International Sustainability Standards Board, the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board, and the International Accounting Standards Board are CA ANZ members,” she said.

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