American Accounting Association Audit Education Workshop January 13–15, 2011 Albuquerque Marriott ● Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Audit Education Workshop
Integrity in Personal and Professional Contexts
1:00 – 5:45pm, January 13, 2011

You are invited to join academic and professional colleagues at this year’s Audit Education Workshop in conversations about what may be the single most important theme of your personal effectiveness and the very cornerstone of the auditing profession—Integrity.  The recent financial scandals and ongoing economic crisis have reenergized integrity as of paramount importance in financial reporting and assurance services.  Yet, in spite of the centrality of integrity to our personal and professional roles, it remains an ambiguous concept lacking prescriptive operational direction.  For example, while we emphasize to auditing students, as well as young audit staff, the critical importance of integrity, we are hard-pressed to provide concrete steps for living out its mandate.  Consequently, we may fail to provide actionable access to the causal link between integrity and personal effectiveness and superior professional performance.

Kari Granger, a Performance Consultant at SUNERGOS and formerly Assistant Professor at the United States Air Force Academy, will lead the Workshop, drawing on materials that she and Michael Jensen, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School, developed to explore the positive phenomenon of integrity.  Kari provides an actionable pathway that participants can utilize in raising their personal levels of integrity and in reaping the many performance and quality-of-life benefits. These developmental aids are readily adaptable to the auditing classroom as well as post-graduate training.  Additional classroom case materials for exploring integrity with students in the auditing classroom will be provided and discussed by both practitioners and audit educators.  Accordingly, in addition to leaving participants with actionable steps to enhance their personal integrity, a key goal of the Workshop is to provide the means for educators to positively impact the next generation of entrants to the auditing profession.    

Note: Due to the experiential and interactive nature of this year’s workshop, registered participants will receive preparatory case materials and/or readings to work through in advance of the workshop

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