Previn Waas

Previn Waas is our exclusively recommended Assurance Services expert in California on the Advisory Excellence website. If you need assistance in this area, please contact Previn directly using the contact details listed above.

Previn is a partner with Deloitte & Touche LLP and the leader of Deloitte’s IPO Centre of Excellence. He has more than 18 years of experience providing assurance, accounting, and other professional services to public and private companies in the technology, telecommunications, and media industries, with a specific focus on software and internet media companies.

He has extensive experience leading IPO engagements as well as consulting on revenue recognition policies, share-based compensation, equity transactions, business combinations, and SEC pre-clearance filings and registration statements.

Prior to joining Deloitte’s Silicon Valley office, Previn was part of Deloitte’s National Office Technical Accounting Consultations group. He is a certified public accountant in California and has a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Baylor University.

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With more than 150 years of hard work and commitment to making a real difference, our organisation has grown in scale and diversity—approximately 245000 people in 150 countries and territories, providing audit and assurance, tax, legal, risk and financial advisory and consulting services—yet our shared culture remains the same.