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American Accounting Association 2010 Auditing Section
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Sixteenth Annual Midyear Auditing Section Conference
We hope that you are planning to attend the Sixteenth Annual Auditing Midyear Conference (AMC) to be held in San Diego, California on January 14-16, 2010. The Conference will be held at the Westin San Diego, an AAA 4 Diamond property, located in the heart of downtown San Diego. The hotel is within walking distance of the Seaport Village, Little Italy, the San Diego Gaslamp Quarter, and a variety of dining and shopping options. San Diego is home to many renowned attractions such as the San Diego Zoo, Sea World, Balboa Park, the USS Midway and many beautiful parks and beaches, which are all convenient to the hotel. A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the special conference rate of $189 per night inclusive of internet access, single or double. Please make your reservations before December 14, 2009 to take advantage of this special room rate.The KPMG Foundation is generously supporting the 2010 Midyear Conference. Similar to previous years, the meeting will include two keynote plenary speakers and concurrent sessions dealing with a wide variety of contemporary topics related to audit and assurance research, practice, and education.
The Friday morning plenary session will feature a presentation by Christopher Cox, Past Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 2005 to 2009. We anticipate a lively discussion as many significant events occurred during his tenure. Mr. Cox was a leader in the effort to integrate U.S. and overseas regulatory policies in this era of global capital markets. Prior to his appointment to the SEC, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives for the State of California. During his seventeen years in congress, he served in a leadership capacity on several committees with jurisdiction over U.S. capital markets, including the Energy and Commerce Committee, the Financial Services Committee, the Joint Economic Committee, and the Budget Committee. He also authored the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. In 1994, President Clinton appointed Cox to the bipartisan commission on entitlement and tax reform. Prior to his time in Congress, Cox served as senior associate counsel to Ronald Reagan and specialized in venture capital and corporate finance with Latham & Watkins. Cox has a M.B.A. and a J.D. from Harvard University, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review.
The Saturday plenary session will feature a presentation by Dr. Arnold Schilder, the Chair of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) at New York. As Chair, Prof. Schilder leads the IAASB in its initiatives in setting high quality auditing and assurance standards and facilitating the convergence of international and national standards. He is a past member of the Managing Board of the De Nederlandsche Bank NV (DNB) as Executive Director in charge of prudential supervision of financial institutions. He held seats on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (and served as the Chairman of its Accounting Task Force from 1999-2006), the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) and until July 2008 the Public Interest Oversight Board (PIOB) as well as being Chairman of the European Interim Working Committee on Financial Conglomerates (IWCFC). In addition, he is a part-time professor of auditing at the University of Amsterdam and is a past President of the Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut van Registeraccountants, IFAC's member body in the Netherlands. Previously, he was a senior international audit partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in the Netherlands and worked for PwC and predecessor firms from 1972 to 1998.
Once again the program will include a pre-conference education workshop titled “Equipping Audit Students to Make Professional Judgments” on Thursday afternoon beginning at 12:30 PM. The workshop will feature three exciting and interactive sessions. Two common threads across these three sessions are a focus on developing audit students’ professional judgment and a substantial opportunity for you to participate and contribute to the workshop. There will be an interactive teleconference with higher-education specialist and best-selling author Ken Bain. Dr. Ken Bain is the author of What the Best College Teachers Do. A team of Deloitte professionals will lead a session on developing skills that enhance auditors’ skepticism and judgment. The third session will be led by a team of accomplished audit scholar-educators that will focus on the synergistic use of audit research to improve audit students’ classroom learning experience and on incorporating students in audit research. There is a $30 registration fee for this Workshop. The Workshop will only accommodate a limited number of participants so pre-registration will be required. Mark Peecher (peecher@illinois.edu) is this year’s Workshop coordinator.
Thanks to the generous support of KPMG LLP, the 11th Annual Auditing Section Doctoral Consortium will be held on January 14th, preceding the Midyear meeting. The chair of this year’s Consortium is Brian Mayhew. The purpose of the Consortium is to stimulate students' research by exposing them to the latest ideas from leading researchers in auditing, and by providing opportunities for networking with other Ph.D. students interested in auditing, established auditing researchers, and journal editors. The Consortium is open to all Ph.D. students who have an interest in auditing research. Students may be at any stage in their program. There is a limit on the total number of students who can attend the Consortium, and a maximum of four students from any one university may attend. Applications will be accepted on a first-come basis via the registration forms on the Section’s website. Students are advised to register early. For further information on the application process, please contact Brian Mayhew via phone (608-262-2714) or email (bmayhew@bus.wisc.edu).
Make plans now to join us in San Diego next January!
Jennifer Joe and Susan Shu
2010 Auditing Midyear Conference Co-Chairs
Urton Anderson
Auditing Section President
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