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Dirks has 40 years of auditing and accounting experience with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, having served as a National Office Partner from 1989 until his mandatory retirement in 2005. He served as a co-leader of the firm's National Accounting Services group and was an Audit Partner from 1979 through 1989, with an industry focus on technology clients in the software, semiconductor and storage hardware fields. Dirks also represented PwC in a variety of accounting and auditing professional activities, including the Accounting Standards Executive committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Emerging Issues Task Force of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and as a member of the AICPA Task Forces regarding various accounting topics, including the AICPA Task Force on Software Revenue Recognition, which led to the issuance of industry recognized literature and technical practice aids on the issue of software revenue recognition. | 