Haas School | CFRM and Accounting

17th Annual Conference on Financial Reporting

Friday, October 27, 2006
San Francisco Marriott Hotel

Introduction

Program Schedule

Speaker Biographies

Organizations Represented

Hotel Location, Directions and Accommodations

Introduction

This conference brings together accounting standard setters, enforcement officials, corporate financial executives, and professional and academic accountants to discuss current issues in financial accounting and corporate reporting.

The goal of the conference is to:

provide preparers and users of corporate financial statements with the latest developments in financial accounting standards and recommendations for improving financial reporting;

promote the advancement of quality financial reporting useful to investors in making investment decisions.

In today's business and regulatory environment, it is essential that preparers and users of financial statements be current on the latest financial reporting trends and issues. This year's conference will include:

an opening address by Thomas J. Linsmeier, Board Member, Financial Accounting Standards Board.

and a presentation of the Berkeley Award for Distinguished Contributions to Financial Reporting by Dean Tom Campbell

Panel discussions will be on:

Emerging Issues in Financial Reporting

Current Issues at the SEC and PCAOB

Sarbanes-Oxley - "Journey to Compliance"

Complexities in Financial Reporting " Facing the Challenges"

[top of page]

Program Schedule
October 27, 2006
San Francisco Marriott Hotel

(General Session - Yerba Buena Ballroom - Salon 7)

Download a copy of the schedule in Microsoft Word format or as a PDF file .

Time	Event
7:45am. -- 8:30am.	Registration Continental Breakfast
8:30am. -- 8:40am.	Welcome Solomon N. Darwin Executive Director, Center for Financial Reporting & Management Haas School of Business
8:40am. -- 9:10am.	Opening Address -"Fair Value" Thomas J. Linsmeier Board Member FASB
9:10am. -- 10:35am.	Emerging Issues in Financial Reporting IASB/FASB Technical Agenda Convergence/Conceptual Framework Business Combinations Transition Issues for Global Corporations Fair Value *Moderator:* Bob Walker Immediate Past Chairman FEI *Panelists:* Mary E. Barth Board Member, IASB Joan E. Horngren Professor of Accounting, Stanford University Thomas J. Linsmeier Board Member FASB Mark M. Bielstein Member, Emerging Issues Task Force, FASB Partner, KPMG LLP Steven W. Hobbs Senior Advisor Protiviti
10:35am. -- 10:45am.	Break and Refreshments
11:45am. -- 12:15pm.	Current Issues at the SEC and PCAOB Review of Materiality Issues Fraud (Audit Structure & Detection) FAS 123 Update on Guidance XBRL *Moderator:* Maria Nondorf Assistant Professor Haas School of Business *Panelists:* Carol A. Stacey Chief Accountant Division of Corporate Finance, SEC Grace Hinchman Senior Vice President FEI Bill Gradison Immediate Past Acting Chairman & Founding Member, PCAOB Toby J. F. Bishop Forensic & Dispute Services Partner Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP Immediate Past President and CEO, ACFE
12:15 pm. -- 12:30 pm.	Presentation of Berkeley Award for Distinguished Contributions to Financial Reporting
12:15 pm. -- 1:30 pm.	Luncheon (Yerba Buena Ballroom Salons 1-6) Introduction of the Dean Solomon Darwin Haas School of Business Presentation of the Berkeley Award for Distinguished Contributions to Financial Reporting Introduction of Luncheon Keynote Speaker Dean Tom Campbell Haas School of Business Luncheon Keynote Speaker - "A Tale of Two Markets" John C. Bogle Founder of the Vanguard Group
1:30pm -- 1:45pm	Q&A
1:45pm -- 2:00pm	Break
2:00pm. -- 3:30pm.	Sarbanes-Oxley -"Journey to Compliance" Guidance for Management’s SOX 404 Assessment (Including Discussion on the SEC’s Concept Release Comments) AS No. 2 Implementation Cost Reductions Strategies for Compliance *Moderator:* Suneel Udpa Visiting Lecturer, Haas School of Business Professor, Saint Mary's College *Panelists:* Brian T. Croteau Associate Chief Accountant Office of the Chief Accountant, SEC Jeffrey L. Johanns Technical Consulting Partner National Accounting Consulting Services, PWC LLP Hans Ploos van Amstel Chief Financial Officer Levi Strauss & Co. Paul E. Sharman President & Chief Executive Officer Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) Thomas F. Flannery Partner & Americas Director of Audit Committee Communications Ernst & Young LLP
3:30pm. -- 3:45pm.	Break and Refreshments
3:45pm. -- 4:55pm.	Complexities in Financial Reporting - Facing the Challenges Principles-Based vs. Rules-Based Standards International Convergence/Causes of Complexity Codification of Existing Accounting Literature Institutional/Cultural/Behavior Issues Enhanced Business Reporting *Moderator:* Bob Laux Director, Technical Accounting and Reporting Microsoft Corporation *Panelists:* Leslie A. Murphy Chair, Board of Directors American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Group Managing Partner, Plante & Moran Benjamin S. Neuhausen Chairman, Accounting Standards Executive Committee (AcSEC) Partner & National Director of Accounting, BDO Seidman, LLP Jon E. Flaxman Senior Vice President & Controller Hewlett-Packard Betsy Rafael Principal Accounting Officer Cisco Systems, Inc. Panel will be joined for Q&A by Mary Barth
4:55pm -- 5:00pm	Drawing for two nights accommodations at the San Francisco Marriott Hotel and two complimentary admissions to 2007 Financial Reporting Conference (Must be present to win)
5:00pm	Book Signing by John C. Bogle at Registration Desk

[top of page]

Organizations Represented

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
Accounting Standards Executive Committee (AcSEC)
BDO Seidman LLP
Center for Financial Reporting & Management
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, LLP
Ernst & Young LLP
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
Financial Executives International (FEI)
Haas School of Business
Hewlett Packard
Institue of Management Accountants
International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
KPMG LLP
Levi Strauss & Co
Microsoft Corporation
Plante & Moran
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Protiviti
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
Stanford University
Saint Mary's College
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
The Vangaurd Group

[top of page]

Hotel Location, Directions and Accommodations

San Francisco Marriott Hotel - Website
Address: 55 Fourth Street, San Francisco, California 94103 USA
Phone: 1-415-896-1600
Fax: 1-415-486-8101
Get Directions to the SF Marriott >
Detailed Driving Directions & Other Forms of Transportation >

Self parking at the hotel garage is $11 per hour. Valet parking is $49.02 daily. Offsite parking is also located from across the hotel at the Fifth and Mission Street Public Garage. This seven story garage spans all the way to 4th street, with rates at $2.50 per hour, and about $23.00 daily.

A limited number of hotel rooms are reserved at the Marriott San Francisco Hotel, 55 Fourth Street, for the nights of October 26-27 at $219 per night. Please indicate on the reservation form if you require a room. CFRM will make your reservation for you. Payment is to be made to the hotel upon departure. Room reservations must be made by October 10 to guarantee this rate!

[top of page]