PCAOB Public Meeting on Firm Independence and Rotation
| DATE: |
Oct. 18, 2012
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| TIME: |
8:30 a.m. – 5:45 p.m.
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| SPEAKER(S): |
Panel
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| EVENT: |
PCAOB Public Meeting
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| ADDRESS: |
Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
Rice University
6100 Main St., MS 531
McNair Hall, Suite 127
Houston, TX 77005
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| CONTACT: |
(202) 207-9227
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Agenda
| 8:30 a.m. |
Welcome and Opening Remarks |
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| 8:40 a.m. |
Session One |
Stephen A. Zeff, Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Accounting, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University
Enhancing the Audit Committee's Independence from Management, and Possible Explanations for the Lack of Auditor Skepticism
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| 9:20 a.m. |
Session Two |
Karen K. Nelson, Harmon Whittington Professor of Accounting, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University
Mark W. Nelson, Eleanora & George Landew Professor of Management and Professor of Accounting, S. C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
Scott Whisenant, Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Kansas School of Business
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| 10:20 a.m. |
Break |
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| 10:40 a.m. |
Session Three |
Henry T. C. Hu, Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Informational Dilemmas: A New Auditor Rotation Idea and “Too Complex to Depict?”
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| 11:20 a.m. |
Session Four |
Robert T. Blakely, Chairman of the Audit Committee, Ally Financial Inc. and Westlake Chemical Corporation; Audit Committee Member, Greenhill & Co and Natural Resource Partners LLC
Kenneth Daly, President and CEO, National Association of Corporate Directors
Michelle Edkins, Managing Director, Global Head of Corporate Governance & Responsible Investment, BlackRock
Larry Rittenberg, Professor Emeritus, Accounting & Information Systems, Wisconsin School of Business; Audit Committee Chairman, Woodward, Inc.; former Chairman of The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission
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| 12:20 p.m. |
Lunch |
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| 1:20 p.m. |
Session Five |
Nathalie Berger, Head of Unit, Audit and Credit Rating Agencies, European Commission
European Commission Proposals for the Reform of the EU Audit Market
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| 2:00 p.m. |
Session Six |
Erik F. Gerding, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
Robert A. Prentice, Interim Chair and Professor, Business, Government & Society Department, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
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| 2:45 p.m. |
Session Seven |
Dan M. Slack, CEO, Fire & Police Pension Association of Colorado
Gregory W. Smith, Interim Executive Director, Public Employees' Retirement Association of Colorado
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| 3:30 p.m. |
Break |
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| 3:45 p.m. |
Session Eight |
T. Cory Bleuer, Vice President, Controller & Chief Accounting Officer, BMC Software, Inc.
Daniel J. Cancelmi, CFO, Tenet Healthcare Corporation
Patrick T. Mulva, Vice President and Controller, ExxonMobil Corporation
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| 4:45 p.m. |
Session Nine |
Cynthia M. Fornelli, Executive Director, Center for Audit Quality
Gaylen R. Hansen, Partner, Ehrhardt Keefe Steiner & Hottman PC; Chairman-Elect, National Association of State Boards of Accountancy
W. David Rook, Partner-in-Charge, Firm Assurance and Advisory Services, Weaver and Tidwell, LLP
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| 5:45 p.m. |
Conclusion |
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