Conrad Meyer (economist)

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Conrad Meyer (born July 25, 1949 in Zurich ) is a Swiss economist . He is a professor emeritus for business administration and held the chair for accounting at the University of Zurich from 1991 to 2014 . Meyer has been a permanent visiting professor at the University of Lucerne since 2016 .

His research focuses on the development, application and critical assessment of national and international accounting standards as well as the design options for accounting with regard to the effects on users and addressees. Meyer's specialist books include articles on group accounting, financial statements analysis & company valuation, and financial accounting (modern introduction to accounting). Meyer also published scientific articles in specialist journals.

Career

Meyer studied from 1969 to 1974 at the law and political science faculty of the University of Zurich (graduated as lic. Oec. Publ.). He was assistant (1976–1979), senior assistant and permanent research assistant (1979–1985) as well as lecturer for business administration (1985–1986) at the Institute for Swiss Banking at the University of Zurich. From 1986 to 1989 he was an assistant professor for business administration with a special focus on accounting and banking at the University of Zurich. In 1989 Meyer was appointed associate professor for business administration and in 1991 professor and director of the Institute for Accounting and Controlling at the University of Zurich. In 1995 Meyer spent two months at Harvard Business School . During this time he attended special seminars in accounting and finance. From 1996 and 2002 Meyer was part-time Vice Rector of the University of Zurich (responsible for planning, controlling, finances and IT at the University of Zurich and head of the "uni2000" reform project). From 2011, Meyer held the Chair of Accounting at the Institute for Business Administration. After more than 40 years at the University of Zurich, he retired at the end of the spring semester 2014. Meyer has been a permanent visiting professor at the University of Lucerne since 2016.

In the Swiss Army , Meyer has the rank of Colonel i Gst a D. He was Chief of Staff of F Div 6 and Kdt of Inf Rgt 28.

Meyer is married and has one daughter. He lives in Grüningen .

Other activities (extract)

Meyer is Vice-President of the Executive Committee for Management Training / Executive MBA of the University of Zurich, President of the Commission Series of the Treuhand Chamber, publisher of the series "Contributions of the Institute for Accounting and Controlling of the University of Zurich", member of the LGT Foundation Board , lecturer at the Swiss Academy for Auditing and member of the Board of Trustees of the Expert Commission for Recommendations on Accounting Swiss GAAP FER .

Meyer also serves on various boards of directors. Among other things, he was chairman of the board of directors of the AG for Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG, vice- chairman of the board of BDO Visura (until 2003) and member of the board of directors of Jacobs Holding AG (until 2020), Adecco ( until 2004) and Crealogix AG (until 2001).

From 1988 and 1990 Meyer was President of the Officers' Society of the Canton of Zurich .

From 2002 to 2012 Meyer was President of the Expert Commission for Recommendations on Accounting Swiss GAAP FER and from 2005 to 2015 a member of the Board of Trustees of the Swiss Aviation Foundation . Until 2019, Meyer was also a member of the Board of Trustees and President of the Finance Committee of SOS Children's Villages Switzerland.

Awards

  • 1975: Award for the best licensing examination of 1974
  • 1990: Teaching award from the Department of Agriculture at ETH Zurich
  • 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013 (FS and HS) and 2014: The Golden Sponge, Award for the best lecturer of a semester from the Fachverein Ökonomie
  • 2011: Award for good teaching from the University of Zurich
  • 2016: "Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching"

Publications (excerpt)

  • Financial accounting, introduction with examples and exercises, 4th, revised edition, EXPERTsuisse series of publications, Volume 182, Zurich, 2020, 376 pages. ISBN 978-3-033-07810-9 .
  • Accounting, A Guide for Understanding Financial Reports, 2nd, completely revised edition, series of the Treuhand-Kammer, Volume 187, Zurich 2017, 298 pages. ISBN 978-3-033-06311-2 .
  • Consolidated financial statements, meaningful consolidated financial statements in compliance with national and international accounting standards, 2nd revised edition, EXPERTsuisse series, Volume 179, Zurich 2016, 458 pages. ISBN 978-3-033-05475-2 .
  • Consolidated financial statements, introduction to the system of consolidated financial statements, 3rd, revised edition, EXPERTsuisse series, Volume 178, Zurich 2021, 173 pages. ISBN 978-3-033-07933-5 .
  • Consolidated Financial Statements, An Introduction, Series of publications by the Treuhand Chamber, Volume 186, Zurich 2012, 181 pages. ISBN 978-3-908159-95-7 .
  • Consolidated Financial Statements, An Integrated Approach in Compliance with National and International Accounting Standards, series of the Treuhand-Kammer, Volume 181, Zurich 2009, 503 pages. ISBN 978-3-908159-75-9 .
  • 225 years of NZZ - The company from 1780 to 2005, Verlag NZZ, Zurich 2005, 277 pages (with the assistance of Pascal Morf).
  • Kleiner Merkur, Betriebswirtschaft (published together with Gabriela Nagel-Jungo and Nicole Brockhaus-Soldenhoff), 7th edition, Zurich 2014, 663 pages.
  • Swiss GAAP FER - Explanations, illustrations and examples (ed.), Verlag SKV, 2nd edition, Zurich 2014, 384 pages.
  • Kleiner Merkur, Recht (Ed. Together with Klaus Matthis), 9th edition, Zurich 2013, 1064 pages.
  • Reasons and consequences of switching from IFRS to Swiss GAAP FER, in: EXPERT FOCUS, 5/2018, pp. 411–415 (together with Peter Fiechter and Ursina Hüppin)
  • Design of earnouts for transactions with continental European buying companies, in: Finanz und Accounting - Jahrbuch 2018, pp. 73–96 (together with Ursina Hüppin).
  • Determinants and Consequences of a Voluntary Turn Away from IFRS to Local GAAP: Evidence from Switzerland, in: European Accounting Review, 15.09.2017, pp. 1–35 (together with Peter Fiechter, Jerome Halberkann).
  • Accounting - what could be nicer? Long march to overregulation and back again, in: NZZ, No. 162 / July 16, 2014, p. 24
  • Management remuneration and corporate governance - an empirical study of Swiss public companies, in: Der Schweizer Treuhänder, No. 10/2013, pp. 693–699 (together with Peter Barmettler)
  • Back to the central principles of accounting, in: NZZ, No. 247 / 23.10.2012, p. 33

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Conrad Meyer. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
  2. ^ Farewell lecture Prof. Conrad Meyer ,. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
  3. ^ University of Lucerne: Appointments at the University of Lucerne. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Executive MBA | University of Zurich: Executive MBA | University of Zurich About us. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
  5. ↑ LGT - Board of Trustees and Group Management. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Board of Trustees. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Prof. Meyer receives teaching award 2016. Accessed on April 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss economist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich