Kazuo Hiramatsu

{{Short description|Japanese academic (1947–2020)}}

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{{nihongo|Kazuo Hiramatsu|平松 一夫|Hiramatsu Kazuo|10 August 1947 – 2 December 2020}}[https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2020120400894&g=soc 平松一夫氏死去　学校法人関西学院理事長] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204122139/https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2020120400894&g=soc |date=4 December 2020 }} {{in lang|ja}} was a Japanese scholar of international accounting, who served as the 17th President of Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan from 2002 to 2008.{{cite web |url=http://www.ifrs.org/NR/rdonlyres/82CBD283-179A-439B-BBD7-7034082F0EBE/0/AP9UpdateonEducationandPublications.pdf |title=IFRS Foundation Trustees Meeting, Seoul 13 October 2010 |author= |date=13 October 2010 |work=INFORMATION FOR OBSERVERS |publisher=IFRS |accessdate=6 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726172426/http://www.ifrs.org/NR/rdonlyres/82CBD283-179A-439B-BBD7-7034082F0EBE/0/AP9UpdateonEducationandPublications.pdf |archive-date=26 July 2011 |url-status=dead }} He graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University and received his Ph.D. in International Accounting. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Washington in 1977-1979, and a visiting professor at the University of Glasgow in 1991. His research interests are in financial accounting and international accounting.

Hiramatsu served as a Professor of Accounting at the School of Business Administration and Graduate School of Business Administration. The scholar also served as the head of Admission Department since 1997-1999.

Within his country, he served as a director of the Financial Accounting Standards Foundation; a member of the CPA-Auditing Oversight Board and the Business Accounting Deliberation Council of the Japanese Ministry of Finance.

Hiramatsu was the Vice President-at-Large of the International Association for Accounting Education & Research, the President of the JAIAS and the 2005-2006 International Member-at-Large of AAA Council of American Accounting Association. He also served for International Accounting Standards Committee as a member of the Strategy Working Party during 1997-1999.