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British Accounting & Finance Association |
Auditing
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25th Audit &
Assurance Conference Organised
by the The
Auditing
Special Interest Group
(ASIG) of
the
British Accounting & Finance Association
(BAFA) in
Conference Programme DAY
1
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Thursday
23 April 2015 09.30
Registration/coffee
10.00 - 10.10
Room: Auditorium Introduction – ilias G Basioudis, Chairman of
Auditing SIG, Aston Business School “Eulogy” David
Gwilliam 10.10 - 10.50
10.50 – 11.05
Coffee
break 11.05 –
12.30 Panel Session 1: Auditorium Where next to build confidence and trust in the accounting
profession? Steve
Maslin,
Chair, Partnership Oversight Board, Grant Thornton UK
“The
aims of the Policy and Regulatory Group (PRG) in building the reputation
of the large accounting firms” Henry
Irving, Secretary, Audit Quality Forum, Head of Audit & Assurance Faculty, ICAEW “Current audit developments and the potential for academic
research” Iain
Coke, Head of Financial Services Faculty, ICAEW “Making audit more relevant; lessons from
banking” Nick Jeffrey, Global Leader, Public Policy, Grant Thornton "Where does the profession stand in the current taxation debate?” Catriona Paisey, ICAS Ethics Committee and University of Glasgow “The importance of ethics and the
individual” Chair: Stuart
Turley, University of Manchester 12.30 - 13.30
Buffet lunch in
Concourse 13.30 –14.10
14.10
- 14.50
14.50 -
15.05 Coffee
break 15.05 - 15.35 Session 3, ICAS session: Auditorium Keynote speech 1:
“Assurance on KPIs” David
Wood,
Executive Director, Technical Policy and Support,
ICAS Chair: ilias G Basioudis, Chairman of
Auditing SIG, Aston Business School 15.35 - 17.00 Panel
Session 2:
Auditorium “ICAS/FRC
research projects - The skills and competency requirements of today’s and
tomorrow’s auditor” Karin
Barac,
University of Pretoria, South Africa Stuart
Turley,
University of Manchester Ian
Paterson Brown,
Convener ICAS Ethics Committee, Chairman of Payfront, formerly Finance
Director of FTSE 250 financial services
company Steve
Maslin,
Chair, Partnership Oversight Board, Grant Thornton UK
Chair: Allister Wilson, Partner EY and Convener of
the ICAS Research Committee
17.00 - 17.30
Room: LT5 --- AGM of Auditing Special Interest Group of
BAFA (everyone
is welcome) 19.30
Pre-dinner drinks, Murrayfield Stadium 20.00
Dinner, Murrayfield Stadium Conference
Programme DAY
2
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Friday
24 April 2015 09.30 –
10.30
Session 4: ICAEW session: Auditorium Assurance
on Regulatory Information – Developments in financial
services Iain Coke, Head of Financial Services Faculty, ICAEW Chair Session: Ian Fraser,
University of Stirling 10.30 - 11.00 Session 5: Auditorium Keynote
speech 2:
“Experience in the first year with
the new extended auditor’s report”
Nick Land, Chairman of the Codes and Standards Committee, FRC, member of
various Audit Committees of UK companies Chair
Session: Ian Fraser,
University of Stirling 11.00 - 11.20
Coffee break
11.20 - 12.00
12.00 - 12.40
12.40 – 13.40 Buffet lunch in Concourse 13.40 - 14.20
14.20 - 15.00
15.00 – 15.10 Conference conclusions |
If you would like to download and print the conference programme, then please click here to access a .pdf version of the programme
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