Open for registration: Online FAR Conference on 22 June 2020

24 April 2020

Online FAR Conference on 22 June 2020 - Academic and practitioner insights on audit quality

Registration for the event is now open via this link.

As communicated to you earlier, we have decided to postpone the 5th FAR conference until June 2021. However, we are proud to announce that we will be hosting an interesting online and interactive session in the afternoon (CET) of Monday the 22nd of June 2020.

This is what the program (1:00 – 5:30 pm CET) will look like:

13:00 - 13:10   Welcome and opening speech

13:10 - 13:50   Plenary 1 - Moving audit teams forward: designing firm environments for sustainable learning from errors               

Wim Gijselaers, Maastricht (with Practitioner Discussant)

14:00 – 14:40   Plenary 2 – How can audit committee support improve auditor’s applications of professional skepticism?

Anna Gold, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Tammie Schaefer, University of Missouri - Kansas City (with Practitioner Discussant)

14:40 – 14:55   Break

14:55 – 15:35   Plenary 3 – Going concern opinions (Key note speaker)

Marshall Geiger, University of Richmond (with Practitioner Discussant)

15:45 – 16:25   Plenary 4 – The auditees internal controls and financial reporting quality 

Jean Bédard, Laval Canada (with Practitioner Discussant)

16:25 – 16:40   Break

16:40 – 17.20   Plenary 5 - Economic consequences of joint audit

Alain Schatt, University of Lausanne (with Practitioner Discussant)

17.20 – 17.30   Closing reflections

Registration for the event is now open via this link.