Thursday, October 29, 2020 |
11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. | Welcome remarks – Dr. Nayantara Hensel, Chief Economist, PCAOB, and Director, Office of Economic and Risk Analysis |
11:15 a.m - 11:25 a.m. | Remarks – Chairman, William D. Duhnke |
| 11:25 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. | Panel I – Chairman, William D. Duhnke;
Board Members - J. Robert Brown, Duane M. DesParte,
Rebekah Goshorn Jurata,
and James G. Kaiser Moderators: Dr. Nayantara Hensel and
Erin Dwyer |
12:45 p.m. - 1:05 p.m. | BREAK |
1:05 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. | Remarks – W. Robert Knechel, University of Florida |
1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. | Panel II – Factors Potentially Impacting Audit Services Discussant: Sungho Noh, Financial Economist, Office of Economic and Risk Analysis |
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | BREAK |
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Panel III – Auditor Independence Discussant: Tian Liang, Econ Analysis Asst Dir, Office of Economic and Risk Analysis
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4:00 p.m. - 4:05 p.m. | BREAK |
4:05 p.m. - 5:05 p.m. | Panel IV – Audit Firm Structure and the Market for Audit Services Discussant: Victor Jarosiewicz, Financial Economist, Office of Economic and Risk Analysis |
| 5:05 p.m. - 5:20 p.m. | Day 1 Closing remarks – Dr. Nayantara Hensel |
Friday, October 30, 2020 |
| 11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. | Welcome remarks - Dr. Nayantara Hensel |
| 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. | Panel V – Critical Audit Matters
Discussant:
Michael Gurbutt, Deputy Director of Economic Analysis and Operations, Office of Economic and Risk Analysis
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| 12:45 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | BREAK |
| 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | Panel VI – Audit Quality Indicators
Discussant: Saad Siddiqui, Assc Dir, Econ Modeling, Office of Economic and Risk Analysis |
| 2:00 p.m. - 2:05 p.m. | BREAK |
| 2:05 p.m. - 3:05 p.m. | Panel VII – Audit Regulation and Oversight
Discussant: Nick Galunic, Senior Financial Economist, Office of Economic and Risk Analysis |
| 3:05 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. | BREAK |
3:10 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. | Panel VIII – Global Regulation
Discussant: Rahsan Inget, Associate Director, Office of Economic and Risk Analysis |
| 4:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks – Dr. Nayantara Hensel and Dr. W. Robert Knechel |
