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 SEVENTH NATIONAL AUDITING CONFERENCE

AUDITING SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (ASIG)

OF THE BRITISH ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION (BAA)

CRANFIELD SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

 Friday 21 March and Saturday 22 March 1997

 

Programme
Friday 21 March 1997

10.30 Registration/Coffee

11.00 Introduction and welcoming address by David Hatherly

Chair: David Hatherly

11.10 The Audit Society - Second Thoughts

Mike Power, London School of Economics

12.00 The Future Interface of Auditing with Accounting and Accounting and Governance

Ian Percy, Vice Chairman of the Auditing Practices Board, Chairman of the Accounts Commission in Scotland, UK and Ireland Representative on the International Auditing Practices Committee

12.50 LUNCH

Chair: Jayne Smith

14.00 Internal moderation in Higher Education, Audit or Evaluation

Iain Gray and Tony Berry, Sheffield Hallam University 

Discussant: Ursula Lucas

14.50 Environmental Auditing - The Role and Contribution of the Internal Audit Function

Keith Wade, Henley Management College

Discussant  Bob Hoskins

15.40 TEA

Chair: Mary Bowerman

16.00 Audit Committees, the Cadbury Code and Audit Fees

Carol Masters, Southampton Institute of Higher Education

 Discussant: Brenda Porter

16.45 Internal Audit Quality in the National Health Service

Bob Hoskins, Liverpool John Moores University

17.30 Meeting of the Auditing Special Interest Group of BAA

19.30 CONFERENCE DINNER

 

Saturday 22 March 1997

07.30-09.00 BREAKFAST

Chair: Catherine Gowthorpe

09.00 A New Look at Social Auditing - Comparing External Assessments of Body Shop and Ben and Jerry’s

Curtis C Verschoor, DePaul University, Chicago

 Discussant: David Gwilliam

9.50 In Search of the Audit Society - Some Evidence from Health Care, Education and the Police

Mary Boweman and Christopher Humphrey, University of Sheffield

Discussant: Tony Berry

10.35 International Journal of Auditing

Andrew Chambers, General Editor

10.50 COFFEE

Chair: Iain Grayr

11.05 The Social Audit Agenda - Primary Health Care in a Stakeholder Society

Phillip Cotton, University of Glasgow

Ian Fraser and Wan Ying Hill, Glasgow Caledonian University

Discussant: David Harherly

11.55 Perceptions of Auditor Independence: UK Evidence

Vivien Beattie, University of Stirling

Richard Brandt and Stella Fearnley, University of Portsmouth

Discussant: Stuart Manson

12.40 Plenary session and conclusion

Brenda Porter