SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING AND COMMERCIAL LAW


Conference Programme

Subject to modification. Last updated 2 August 2010.

Wednesday 18 August 2010
9.30 am – 2.30 pm
Doctoral Colloquium
3.00 pm - 5.30 pm
Registration
3.00 pm - 3.30pm
Afternoon Tea
3.30 pm – 4.30 pm 
Panel Discussion
"Does Accounting History Matter?"

Panel Members:

Lee Parker, Joint Editor, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal

Christopher Napier, Joint Editor, Accounting Historians Journal

Garry Carnegie, Joint Editor, Accounting History

Brian West, Joint Editor, Accounting History


Chair: Carolyn Cordery
6.00 pm – 7.30 pm 
Welcome Function – Grand Hall, Parliament Buildings

Thursday 19 August 2010
8.00 am onwards
Registration
8.15 am – 8.30 am
Opening remarks
8.30 am – 9.30 am
Plenary session 1 – Nola Buhr
“From Cash to Accrual and Domestic to International: Government Accounting Standard Setting in the last 30 years”.

Chair: Jayne Bisman
9.30 am - 10.30 am
Parallel sessions
10.30 am – 11.00 am
Morning tea
11.00 am – 12.30 pm 
Parallel sessions
12.30 pm – 1.30 pm
Lunch
1.30 pm – 3.00 pm
Parallel sessions
3.00 pm – 3.30 pm
Afternoon tea
3.30 pm – 5.00 pm
Parallel sessions
5.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Plenary session 2 – Delfina Gomes (co-author Massimo Sargiacomo)
“Accounting and Accountability in Local Government”.

Chair: Lúcia Lima Rodrigues
6.00 pm – 7.00 pm
Social Function: Drinks at the Holiday Inn
7.00 pm -
Evening free
Friday 20 August 2010
8.15 am onwards
Registration
8.15 am – 10.15 am 
Parallel sessions
10.15 am – 10.45 am 
Morning tea
10.45 am – 12.15 am 
Parallel sessions
12.15 pm – 1.15 pm
Lunch
1.15 pm – 2.45 pm
Parallel sessions
2.45 pm – 3.30 pm
Travel to Arohanui ki te Tangata Marae
3.30 pm - 4.15 pm
Powhiri  and afternoon tea
4.15 pm – 5.30 pm
Plenary session 3 – Michael Gaffikin
“What is (Accounting) History?”

Chair: Paul Miranti
5.30 pm - 8.30 pm
Conference dinner and entertainment
8.30 pm
Return to Holiday Inn