The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity Announces:

Ensuring Integrity: First Annual Auditing Conference

December 14, 2006
6.5 Hours CPE


About the event
You are invited to attend Ensuring Integrity: First Annual Auditing Conference, presented by The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity at Baruch College.  The morning segment will provide a forum for interaction between business and accounting executives and policy setters from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Public Companies Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).  Our keynote luncheon speaker, Jean Wyer of Pricewaterhouse Coopers, will address the shortage of academics in Auditing.  The afternoon addresses two critical issues confronting the auditing profession.  Grant Thorton LLP will moderate a session on the voluntary implementation of SOX 404 and Richard Eisner LLP will explore issues in Auditing Information Technology.  

REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST  8:00 to 8:45 AM

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION  8:45 to 9:00 AM
JOHN ELLIOTT, Dean, Zicklin School of Business
DOUGLAS CARMICHAEL, Professor, Baruch College

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS AT THE AICPA  9:00 to 10:00 AM
JOHN FOGARTY, past chairman of the AICPA's Auditing Standards Board

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS AT THE PCAOB  10:15 to 11:15 AM
THOMAS RAY, Chief Auditor of the PCAOB

PANEL DISCUSSION: HOT TOPICS IN AUDITING  11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
PROFESSOR DOUGLAS CARMICHAEL, Baruch College

LUNCH   12:30 - 2:00PM

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: ENSURING MILLENNIAL AUDIT TALENT  
JEAN WYER, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

VOLUNTARY IMPLEMENTATION OF SOX Section 404 2 :00 to 3:00 PM
TRENT GAZZAWAY and BOB COLSON, Grant Thornton LLP
RUSSELL NOLES, TIAA-CREF
TOM OPLADEN, Parsons Brinckerhoff

TECHNOLOGY AUDIT AND CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY  3:15 to 4:15 PM
NEAL KIRSCHNER, Richard Eisner LLP



When and where
Thursday, December 14, 2006 from 8:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Baruch College
Newman Conference Center, Room 7-50
151 East 25th Street (between Lexington and Third Avenues)
New York, NY 10010

Payment Information
$285 General Registration Fee
$85 Nonprofit and Academic Registration Fee
$2,000 10 person table
No charge for Baruch students and faculty

For further information
Visit us online at zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/centers/cci/events/ensuring-integrity-first-annual-auditing-conference
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