Haas School | CFRM and Accounting

Eighteenth Annual Conference on Financial Reporting
Friday, November 9, 2007
San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel (Burlingame, CA)

Program Schedule
About the Conference
Speaker Biographies
Hotel Location, Directions and Accommodations

Program Schedule:

A schedule for the conference can be downloaded here.

Time	Event
7:30 - 8:15 AM	Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:15 - 8:30 AM	Opening Remarks Solomon Darwin Executive Director, CFRM, Haas School of Business
8:30 - 9:00 AM	Keynote Speaker: Conrad Hewitt Chief Accountant, US Securities and Exchange Commission "Update on Current Issues at the SEC" Foreign private issuer deregistration IFRS/US GAAP Reconciliation for Non-US filers New Concept Release for US Filers Independence Rule Changes Executive Compensation Complexity in Accounting/XBRL Activity/Materiality Issues Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting
9:00 - 10:00 AM	Update on FASB/IASB Technical Agenda Lawrence Smith: Board Member, FASB Anthony Cope: Immediate Past Board Member, IASB
10:00 - 10:45 AM	PANEL I Emerging Issues in Financial Reporting - Key Challenges Presented by the Joint Projects for Financial Executives and Users Financial Statement Presentation Business Combinations Liabilities and Equity Contingencies (a relook at Fas 5) Accounting for Hedging Leasing Revenue Recognition Other Emerging Issues Moderator: Rebecca McEnally Director of Capital Markets, CFA Institute, Centre for Financial Market Integrity Panelists: Anthony Cope Immediate Past Board Member, IASB Bob Laux Director of Technical Accounting and Reporting, Microsoft Paul Munter Partner, Department of Professional Practice, KPMG LLP Ben Neuhausen AICPA AcSec Chair, National Director, BDO LLP Lawrence Smith Board Member, FASB
10:45 - 11:00 AM	Break
11:00 - 12:30 PM	PANEL II Impact of Globalization of IFRS on US and Non-US Companies Governance of principle based Standards US GAAP and IFRS reporting for US and non-U.S. filers SEC rules for reporting in IFRS or GAAP for U.S. companies and foreign registrants Role of Auditors in the changing environment Resource Challenges for first time adoption of IFRS: new PCAOB guidance to Auditors, training and restructuring of accounting education Impact of IFRS on US markets, investors, management and Auditors Effect of cross-border capital markets consolidation on financial reporting Moderator: Maria Nondorf Assistant Professor of Accounting, Haas School of Business Panelists: Anthony Cope Immediate Past Board Member, IASB D.J. Gannon Partner, National Office, Deloitte & Touche LLP Bill Gradison Founding Board Member and Immediate Past Chairman, PCAOB Conrad Hewitt Chief Accountant, US SEC Robert Walker Board Member and Immediate Past Chairman, FEI
12:30 - 2:00 PM	Lunch Announcement of the 2007 Berkeley Award for Distinguished Contributions to Financial Reporting Tom Campbell, Dean, Haas School of Business Lunch Keynote James Ratley, President, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners "Profiles of the Crooked"
2:00 - 3:15 PM	PANEL III Fair Value Measurement "Implementation Challenges" Fair value Hierarchy & Prioritization Approaches Expanded Disclosure Major changes in practice: a) exit price, b) marketplace participants, c) principal market, d) considering the company's own credit risk. Moderator: Suneel Udpa Adjunct Faculty, Haas School of Business Panelists: Jim Campbell Corporate Controller & VP of Finance, Intel Corporation Joseph McGrath Partner, National Office, Ernst & Young LLP Lawrence Smith Board Member, FASB Robert Walker Board Member and Immediate Past Chairman, FEI
3:15 - 3:30 PM	Break
3:30 - 4:45 PM	PANEL IV Complexities in Financial Reporting "Exploring Solutions" SEC & FASB's new commitment to reducing complexity Measures taken by FASB & SEC Impact of IASB/FASB convergence FEI recommendations Will XBRL help? Controlling management risk in manipulation of financial reporting Liabilities and equity New SEC Guidance on management reporting on internal controls Moderator: Bob Laux Director of Technical Accounting and Reporting, Microsoft Panelists: Robert Andreatta Chief Accounting Officer and Controller, Genentech Anthony Cope Immediate Past Board Member, IASB Linda Griggs Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP SEC Committe on Improvements to Financial Reporting Steve Meisel SEC Services Leader and Partner, National Office, PwC LLP Lawrence Smith Board Member, FASB

About the Conference

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. 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.

The goal of the conference is to:

Provide preparers and users of financial statements with the latest developments in financial accounting standards;

Engage participants to dialogue with standard setters in recommending improvments in financial reporting;

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

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Hotel Location, Directions and Accommodations

San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel
Address: 1800 Old Bayshore Highway, Burlingame, CA 94010
Phone: (650) 692-9100
Fax: (650) 692-8016
Website: http://marriott.com/property/propertypage.mi?marshaCode=SFOBG

Self parking at the hotel garage is $1 per hour, $18 daily. Valet parking is $22.00 daily.

A limited number of hotel rooms are reserved at the San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel, 1800 Old Bayshore Highway, for the nights of November 8-11 at $159 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 23 to guarantee this rate!

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