9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks

• Chairman Christopher Cox, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• Acting Chairman Bill Gradison, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)

9:15 a.m. Introduction and Panel One – Overview of the Second Year

Moderators

• Thomas Ray, Office of the Chief Auditor, PCAOB
• Nancy L. Salisbury, Office of the Chief Accountant, SEC
• John W. White, Division of Corporation Finance, SEC

Lead Moderator: John W. White

Participants

• Philip D. Ameen(PDF), Vice President and Comptroller, General Electric Company
• The Honorable Mary K. Bush(PDF), President, Bush International, Inc.; Chairman and Audit Committee Member, Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation; Chairman and Policy and Administration Member, Pioneer Family of Mutual Funds; Director, Briggs and Stratton and Brady Corporation
• H. Rodgin Cohen(PDF), Chairman, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
• Colleen Cunningham(PDF) (Statement(PDF)), President and Chief Executive Officer, Financial Executives International
• Robert W. Davis(PDF), Chief Financial Officer, CA, Inc.; Representative of U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr.(PDF), Global Chief Executive Officer, PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited
• The Honorable Barbara Hackman Franklin(PDF), President and CEO, Barbara Franklin Enterprises; former U.S. Secretary of Commerce; Audit Committee Chair, MedImmune, Inc.; Director, Aetna, The Dow Chemical Company, and GenVec, Inc.; Director, National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD)
• The Honorable Joseph A. Grundfest(PDF) (Statement(PDF)), The William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business and co-Director of the Rock Center on Corporate Governance at Stanford University; former Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Director and Audit Committee Member, Oracle and Financial Engines
• Dennis A. Johnson(PDF), Senior Portfolio Manager, Corporate Governance Office, California Public Employees' Retirement System
• Edward E. Nusbaum(PDF), Chief Executive Officer and Executive Partner, Grant Thornton LLP

10:30 a.m. Break
 

10:45 a.m. Panel Two – Management’s Evaluation and Assessment
Panel Two – Management’s Evaluation and Assessment

Moderators

• Laura J. Phillips, Office of the Chief Auditor, PCAOB
• Scott A. Taub, Office of the Chief Accountant, SEC
• John W. White, Division of Corporation Finance, SEC

Lead Moderator: Scott A. Taub

Participants

• William J. Brunner(PDF), Chief Financial Officer, Vice President, and Treasurer, First Indiana Corporation; Chairman, American Banker’s Association Accounting Committee
• Kimberly Parker Gavaletz(PDF), Vice President and Deputy, Global Sustainment, Lockheed Martin Corporation
• Susan C. Gordon(PDF), CBS, Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, CBS Corporation
• Keith E. Holmberg(PDF), Vice President of Financial Control Processes, British Petroleum
• Lee Level(PDF) (Statement(PDF)), Corporate Vice President and Board Member; Computer Sciences Corporation; Audit Committee Chair, Levi Strauss & Co. and UTi Worldwide Inc.
• Peter F. Minan(PDF), National Managing Partner, KPMG LLP

• Stephen A. Sherwin, M.D.,(PDF) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cell Genesys, Inc.; Audit Committee Member, Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Ceregene, Inc.

• Dr. Albert M. Teplin(PDF), Audit Committee Chair, Viad Corp.; Audit Committee Member, MoneyGram International

• James S. Turley(PDF), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ernst & Young

12:15 p.m. Lunch Break
 

1:15 p.m. Panel Three – The Audit of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Moderators

• Laura J. Phillips, Office of the Chief Auditor, PCAOB
• Thomas Ray, Office of the Chief Auditor, PCAOB
• Nancy L. Salisbury, Office of the Chief Accountant, SEC

Lead Moderator: Thomas Ray

Participants

• Frank H. Brod(PDF), Corporate Vice President Finance and Administration and Chief Accounting Officer, Microsoft Corporation
• Lisa A. Flavin(PDF), Vice President - Audit, Emerson Electric Co.
• Timothy P. Flynn(PDF), Chairman and Chief Executive, KPMG LLP
• Jay Howell(PDF), Associate Director of Assurance, Northwest region, BDO Seidman LLP
• Leo L. Kessel(PDF), Senior Client Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
• Bruce A. Renihan(PDF) (Statements(PDF)), Executive Vice-President and Controller, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
• Garrett L. Stauffer(PDF), Senior Partner, National Risk & Quality Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
• Shelley S. Stein(PDF), Chief Operating Officer, Grant Thornton LLP
• Tom Szlosek(PDF), Vice-President and Controller, Honeywell International Inc.
• Richard G. Ueltschy(PDF), Executive in Charge of Financial Institution audit practice, Crowe Chizek & Company L.L.C.

2:45 p.m. Break
 

3:00 p.m. Panel Four – The Effect on the Market

Moderators

• Thomas Ray, Office of the Chief Auditor, PCAOB
• Carol A. Stacey, Division of Corporation Finance, SEC
• John W. White, Division of Corporation Finance, SEC

Lead Moderator: John W. White

Participants

• The Honorable Charles A. Bowsher(PDF), Former Comptroller General, U.S. Government Accountability Office
• Gregory J. Jonas(PDF), Managing Director of Accounting Specialists Group, Moody's Investors Service
• Peter D. Lyons(PDF), Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP
• Michael J. McConnell(PDF), Managing Director, Shamrock Capital Advisors
• Robert C. Pozen(PDF), Chairman, MFS Investment Management
• Monte N. Redman(PDF), Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Astoria Financial Corporation and Astoria Federal Savings and Loan Association
• Kurt N. Schacht(PDF), Managing Director, Centre for Financial Market Integrity of CFA Institute
• Noreen Culhane(PDF), Executive Vice President, NYSE Global Corporate Client Group
• David Warren(PDF), Chief Financial Officer, The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.
• Karen Hastie Williams(PDF), Director, Chubb Corporation and SunTrust Bank; Finance Committee Chair, Continental Airlines, Inc.; Audit Committee Chair, Gannett Company, Inc., Washington Gas Holdings Company, and the Federal National Mortgage Association Foundation

4:15 p.m. Break
 

4:20 p.m. Panel Five – Next Steps

Moderators

• Thomas Ray, Office of the Chief Auditor, PCAOB
• Scott A. Taub, Office of the Chief Accountant, SEC
• John W. White, Division of Corporation Finance, SEC

Lead Moderator: Thomas Ray

Participants

• J. Michael Cook(PDF), Audit Committee Chairman, Burt’s Bees Inc., Comcast Corporation, Eli Lilly and Company, and International Flavors & Fragrances; Board Member, The Dow Chemical Company
• Nick S. Cyprus(PDF), Former Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, The Interpublic Group of Companies and AT&T, Member of the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) Board
• Alex Davern(PDF), Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Manufacturing and IT Operations, National Instruments; Chairman, American Electronics Association (AeA) committee on reform of Sarbanes-Oxley 404
• Michele J. Hooper(PDF) (Statement(PDF)), Co-founder and Managing Partner, The Directors' Council; Audit Committee Chair, PPG Industries, Inc.; Board Member, AstraZeneca, PLC and Warner Music Group
• John J. Huber(PDF) (Statement(PDF)) , Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
• Robert J. Kueppers(PDF), Deputy CEO, Deloitte & Touche USA LLP
• Damon A. Silvers(PDF), Associate General Counsel, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
• The Honorable David M. Walker(PDF), Comptroller General of the United States
• Ann Yerger(PDF), Executive Director, Council of Institutional Investors

5:30 p.m. Closing Remarks