Brian Goetsch
Director, Accounting Advisory Services
Brian is a director with KPMG’s Accounting Advisory Services practice with over 10 years of experience in providing technical accounting and advisory services on financial instruments and derivatives, energy industry and other commodity-based issues, consolidations and acquisitions, revenue recognition, leasing, and foreign currency.
He assists clients in applying accounting guidance to various accounting transactions and the development of accounting policies. He works with KPMG’s vast network of resources to identify interpretive guidance, industry practices, and regulator views in order to identify, research, develop, and document accounting positions and policies.
Brian has assisted multi-national companies with the evaluation of the impact that foreign currencies have on their financial reporting in order to identify and develop appropriate hedge programs. He also works closely with audit clients to assist with the development of hedge programs on a real-time basis to ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP or IFRS.
Brian is a member of KPMG’s Financial Instrument and Derivatives Resource Team, providing focused technical analysis for a wide range of commodity and financial derivatives and hedging activities.