10.00                  Registration/coffee

10.55 -11.00       Introduction

Keynote session 1

11.00 –11.45               “ICAS approach to the teaching of ethics”

Hilary Lofthouse, Director, CA Education, ICAS

11.45 - 12.25  “Testing the CPA Reliability Framework: The Effects of Engagement Type and Provision of Non-attest Services on Lenders’ Judgments”

F. Todd DeZoort, The University of Alabama, Mark H. Taylor, Case Western Reserve University, and Travis Holt, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

12.25 - 13.05   “An exploration of the adoption of IFAC standards on ethical education by the accounting profession”

Jan Loughran,Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University

13.05 - 14.00               Lunch

14.00 - 14.40  "Post-crisis...Where next for the External Auditing Function?"

Christopher Humphrey, Manchester Business School, and Margaret Woods, University of Nottingham

14.40 - 15.20    “The Emptied Landscape: Auditing and Auditors in a time of Great Depression”

Steve Priddy, Director of Technical Policy and Research, ACCA

15.20 - 15.35               Coffee break

15.35 -17.00    Panel Session:  “The future of auditing after the crisis”

Steven Leonard, Project Director, FRC/APB

Matthew Mullins , Audit Partner, PwC Birmingham

Peter Gallimore, Audit Partner, Deloitte Birmingham

SimonO’Neill, Audit Partner, E&Y Birmingham

Stuart Turley, Manchester Business School

17.15               Auditing SIG Annual General Meeting

19.30               Pre dinner drinks

20.00               Conference dinner followed by Céilidh

DAY 2 - Saturday 17 April 2010

Keynote session 2

09.00 - 09.45      “The new AQF programme and work on the external factors affecting audit quality”

Henry Irving, Head of Audit & Assurance Faculty, ICAEW

09.45 - 10.25        “The Impact of Audit Automation on Audit Expectations-Performance Gap: Evidence from the UK”

Kamil Omoteso, Leicester Business School, De Montfort University

10.25 - 10.45     Coffee break              

10.45 - 11.25      “Audit Quality Demand in a Differentiated Market and Auditor Switching”

Xiao Xiao & Yi Zhou, both from China Center for Economic Research, Peking University

11.25 - 12.05      “Auditor-Client Bonding and Audit Quality: Partner-Level Evidence”

Charles J. P. Chen, China Europe International Business School, Xiaohong Liu, The University of Hong Kong, Xijia Su, City University of Hong Kong, and Xi Wu, Central University of Finance and Economics, China

12.05 - 12.45     “Board Characteristics, Ownership Structure and Audit Committee Diligence”

Yin Feng, Accounting School, Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, China, and Simon S. Gao , School of Accounting, Economics and Statistics, Edinburgh Napier University

12.45 - 13.00      Conference conclusions

13.00 - 14.00               Buffet lunch