Open for registration: Online FAR Conference on 22 June 2020 - Academic and practitioner insights on audit quality

24 April 2020

Open for registration: Online FAR Conference on 22 June 2020

As communicated to you earlier, we have decided to postpone the 5^th FAR conference until June 2021. However, we are proud to announce that we will host 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 (including opening and closing part and breaks):

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               

Research Findings and Practitioner Perspectives (with Practitioner Discussant)

Wim Gijselaers, Maastricht

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

Anna Gold, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (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.