Jason Plourde

Executive summary

Jason Plourde is a partner in the National Professional Standards Group, where he focuses on developing firm auditing methodologies that drive audit quality. He also assists the firm’s professional staff with technical accounting matters in the areas of consolidations, derivatives and hedging, fair value measurements and share-based payments. Plourde has more than 13 years of auditing and accounting experience. He spent two years as a Professional Accounting Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the SEC in Washington, D.C., where he was involved in the study and development of rule proposals under the federal securities laws, and consulted with SEC registrants on financial reporting matters.

He rejoined Grant Thornton in June 2012. Prior to his time at the SEC, Plourde worked in the Accounting Principles practice of Grant Thornton, where he wrote and spoke about firm policies and positions on accounting topics, assisted audit teams with technical questions on a variety of accounting topics, and focused on audit quality initiatives.

Education

MBA, University of Chicago
BBA, Accounting, University of Notre Dame