Yael Gerassi

Yael is a partner in the Israel Corporate Reporting Services (Israel CRS Group) of PwC Israel.

Yael joined the Israeli firm in 1997 and has an extensive experience in studying and researching developments in accounting and financial reporting, and educating professionals across the firm as well as clients and other external parties. She also shares with the firm's accounting staff her expertise on domestic and international technical issues.

Yael has considerable experience in reviewing financial statements and prospectuses, including those of companies listed on stock exchanges in the US and Europe (specializing in hi-tech companies). In addition, she has expertise in IFRS, US GAAP and Israeli GAAP.

Yael also serves as a partner in PwC's Global Corporate Reporting Services Group (Global CRS Group), where she sits on the panel that focuses on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The principal functions of the Global CRS Group are to determine PwC’s position on various professional issues, to provide solutions on relevant professional issues, to approve reports before their submission to various authorities throughout the world, to participate in the firm’s knowledge and accumulated experience and to ensure the consistent and equitable application of IFRS within the international firm of PwC.

In 2005, Yael served as a senior manager at the Technical Department of the UK firm’s head office in London (PwC UK). As part of her work there, Yael was involved in the initial IFRS adoption process by various UK public companies.

Yael chairs the Accounting Committee of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Israel and represents the institute on the Israel Accounting Standards Board (the local standard setter) and in professional committees of PwC Israel.

Yael has authored a number of professional articles and client updates that have been published by the Israeli firm's and in the local financial press (Globes Research). 

She previously served as a distinguished senior lecturer in the Department of Accounting at the Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University. Currently, Yael is teaching at the Accounting program of the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center (IDC).

Yael holds a Bachelor's degree in Accounting and Economics and an MBA in Finance and Marketing (cum laude), both from the Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University.

Yael is qualified as a Certified Public Accountant in Israel.