Symposia Programme

 

TUESDAY, 28th April 2015

13.45-15.15  -  SYMPOSIUM 1  -  Clyde Auditorium

ICAEW Symposium - Capital in the 21st Century: Accounting Perspectives

Chair:
- Robert Hodgkinson, Technical Director, ICAEW, U.K.

Panellists:
- Jan Bebbington, University of St Andrews, Scotland, U.K.
- George Cobb, SSE, U.K.
- Robert Hodgkinson, ICAEW, U.K.
- Jan Mouritsen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- Christopher Nobes, Royal Holloway, University of London, U.K.


15.30-17.00   -  SYMPOSIUM 2  -  Clyde Auditorium

Accounting in Europe and EAA-FARS Symposium - IFRS ten years on !

Chair:
Paul André, ESSEC Business School, France, and Editor of Accounting in Europe

Speakers:
Mario Abela, Leader - Research and Development, International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), U.S.A.
Brian Singleton-Green, Manager, Corporate Reporting, Financial Reporting Faculty, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), U.K.
Alan Teixeira, Senior Technical Director, International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), New Zealand
Peter Walton, ESSEC Business School, France, and Chair EAA-FRSC
 

17.00-18.30  -  SYMPOSIUM 3  -  Clyde Auditorium

ICAS Symposium - Professional Investors and the Objectives of Financial Reporting

Chair:
Allister Wilson, Convener of the ICAS Research Committee & Partner at EY, U.K.

Speakers:
Mark Clatworthy, Professor of Accounting, University of Bristol, U.K.
Joachim Gassen, Professor of Accounting, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Peter Joos, Associate Professor of Accounting and Control, INSEAD, France and formerly Global Head of Valuation & Accounting, Equity Research Department, Morgan Stanley, U.K.
Guy Jubb, Global Head of Governance & Stewardship, Standard Life Investments, U.K.
Jim Pettigrew, ICAS President and Chairman of Edinburgh Investment Trust plc, Deputy Chairman Royal Bank of Canada Europe, Chairman of Audit Committee at Aberdeen Asset Management plc and Clydesdale Bank plc and non-executive director at Hermes, AON UK Ltd and Crest Nicholson plc, U.K.
 

WEDNESDAY, 29th April 2015

08.30-10.00  -  SYMPOSIUM 4   -  Lomond Auditorium

IASB Symposium - The Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting - a project update

Chair:
Peter Walton, ESSEC Business School, France and Chair EAA Financial Reporting Standards Committee (FRSC)

Speaker:
Anne McGeachin, Technical Principal, IASB, U.K.

Discussants:
Richard Barker, University of Oxford, U.K. and Member of the EAA FRSC
Christopher Nobes, Royal Holloway, University of London, U.K. and Member of the EAA FRSC


10.15-11.45  -  SYMPOSIUM 5  -  Lomond Auditorium

EAR Symposium - Tax Research

Chair:
Martin Jacob, WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany

Speakers:
Mike Devereux, Centre for Business Taxation, Said Business School, Oxford University, U.K.
Edward Maydew, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.A.
Rainer Niemann, University of Graz, Austria
Leslie Robinson, Tuck School of Business at Darmouth College, U.S.A.


11.45-13.15  -  SYMPOSIUM 6  -  Lomond Auditorium

Accounting and Popular Culture

Chair:
Charles Cho, ESSEC Business School, France

Speakers:
-  Charlotta Bay, Stockholm Business School, Sweden
Charles Cho, ESSEC Business School, France
Christine Cooper, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, U.K.
Stephen Morrow, University of Stirling, U.K.
Audrey Paterson, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, U.K.
 

14.00-15.30  -  SYMPOSIUM 7  -  Lomond Auditorium

Editors' Symposium - How to publish research aimed at making a more equal and fair society

Chair:
David Cooper, Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Journal Panellists:
-  Chris Chapman, Accounting Organisations & Society
David Cooper, Critical Perspectives on Accounting
James Guthrie, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability
Alan Lowe, British Accounting Review
Patricia O'Brien, Contemporary Accouting Research
-  Laurence van Lent, European Accounting Review
Martin Walker, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

 

15.45-17.15 - SYMPOSIUM 8  -  Lomond Auditorium

IFRS Symposium - IFRS: A Transnational Perspective

Chairs:
Nihel Chabrak, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates
Yuri Biondi, ESCP Europe and CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research), France

Speakers:
Yuri Biondi, ESCP Europe and CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research), France
Nihel Chabrak, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates
-  Michael Hommel, Chair of Auditing and Accounting, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Jacques Richard, Emeritus Professor at the University of Paris Dauphine, Member of the French National Accounting Standard Board (Ministry of Finance), France
Tomo Suzuki, Said Business School, University of Oxford, U.K.