Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Thursday August 15, 12:00 pm Lunch & Keynote Speech
  • Christine Botosan,  Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Member
    • “Presentation Concepts and the Statement of Cash Flows”
Thursday, August 15, 7:00 pm Dinner & Keynote Speech
  • Luzi Hail, Stephen J. Heyman Professor of Accounting, University of Pennsylvania
    • “A Brief History of Accounting Regulation”

 

Panels

A global perspective on financial reporting of intangibles (Sponsored by IAAER)

Friday, August 16, 9:00 am – 10:30

Moderator: 

Panelists:

  • Zach Gast, Member, International Accounting Standards Board
  • Leslie Hodder, Professor of Accounting, David Thompson Chair, Indiana University.
  • Paul Munter, Chief Accountant, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Sustainability and Accounting: Incentives and Opportunities

Friday, August 16, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Concurrent Session

Moderator: 

  • Steven Balsam, Professor of Accounting and Merves Senior Research Fellow, Temple University

Panelists:


AI: Friend or Foe of the Accounting Profession?

Friday August 16, Lunch and Panel Session

Moderator: 

  • Steven Balsam, Professor of Accounting and Merves Senior Research Fellow, Temple University

Panelists:

  • Peter Demerjian, Director of the School of Accountancy, Georgia State University
  • Tim Lindgren, Assistant Director, Design Innovation, Center for Digital Innovation in Learning, Boston College
  • Marissa Slabbert, RSM, Manager Tax Services
  • Taka Soai, KPMG, Senior Manager Audit

 

Concurrent Sessions

Concurrent sessions will last 1.5 hours and include three paper presentations. Each presentation will be followed by a discussion from an assigned discussant and a Q&A period. An award will be given to the best paper presented at the conference.

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