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11th NATIONAL AUDITING CONFERENCE

DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY

SPONSORS: THE ASSOCIATION OF CHARTERED CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANTS,

THE INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES,

THE INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS OF SCOTLAND

Friday 23 and Saturday 24 March 2001

Programme
Friday 23 March 2001

10.30 Registration/Coffee

11.00 Introduction and welcoming address

Elaine Harris, De Montfort University

Keynote session 1, Chair: Stuart Turley, The University of Manchester

11.10 The e-economy and the Auditing Profession

Jonathan Hayward, PricewaterhouseCoopers, London

12.00 The e-economy and Audit Research

Amelia Baldwin, University of Alabama

12.50 LUNCH

Session 2, Chair: David Gwilliam, Aberystwyth, University of Wales 

14.00 Auditing Online Reporting: Professional Pronouncements and User Needs

Andrew Lymer, University of Birmingham

R. Debreceny, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore

14.50 The Assurance of Business Reporting Information: The Views of Interested Parties

Vivien Beattie and Ken Pratt, Stirling University

15.40 TEA/COFFEE

Session 3, Chair: Stella Fearnley, University of Portsmouth

16.00 An Investigation into the Accountability of Irish Accountants

Mary Canning and Brendan O' Dwyer, Dublin City University

16.50 TAINT - Teaching Auditing in an InterNeT Environment: an Overview for Discussion

Christine Helliar and Lissa Monk, University of Dundee

17.40 Meeting of the Auditing Special Interest Group of BAA

19.45 CONFERENCE DINNER

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Saturday 24 March 2001

07.30-09.00 BREAKFAST

Session 4, Chair: Stuart Manson, University of Essex

09.00 The Audit Expectation-Performance Gap: Some New Evidence from the United Kingdom

Brenda Porter, Cranfield School of Management

Catherine Gowthorpe, University of Central Lancashire

9.50 Management Control in Audit Firms

Breda Sweeney, National University of Ireland, Galway

Bernard Pierce, Dublin City University

10.40 COFFEE

Session 5, Chair: Andrew Chambers, General Editor of the International Journal of Auditing

11.00 Auditing Risk Management: Fine in Theory but Who Can do it in Practice?  

Margaret Crawford and Bill Stein, Glasgow Caledonian University

11.50 From Frog to Prince: the Metamorphosis of Internal Audit

Michael Page, University of Portsmouth

Laura Spira, Oxford Brookes University

12.40 Plenary session and conclusion

12.50 LUNCH