We compute the conserved charges for Kerr anti-de Sitter spacetimes
in various dimensions using the conformal and the counterterm prescriptions. We
show that the conserved charge corresponding to the global timelike killing vector
computed by the two methods di er by a constant dependent on the rotation parameter
and cosmological constant in odd spacetime dimensions, whereas the charge
corresponding to the rotational killing vector is the same in either approach. We
comment on possible implications of our results to the AdS/CFT correspondence.