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Osservatorio di Revisione

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Mara Cameran
Assistant Professor
Member of EARnet (European Auditing Research Network) Scientific Committee
Università Bocconi – SDA Bocconi School of Management

Annalisa Prencipe
Assistant Professor
Università Bocconi – SDA Bocconi School of Management

Professor Jere R. Francis
University of Missouri, Columbia, USA

Professor Dan A. Simunic
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Editor of "Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory "

Sasson Bar-Yosef  (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Mara Cameran  (Università Bocconi)
Annalisa Prencipe  (Università Bocconi)
Reiner Quick  (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Ann Vanstraelen  (Maastricht University)

For the complete schedule of the event please click here.

Audit quality has drawn much attention by academics and practitioners in the last few years.

The first workshop on Audit Quality, successfully held in Bocconi in 2006, provided an effective arena for discussing relevant research on the topic.

This second workshop intends to expand the horizon of the debate and to be a unique opportunity for researchers to share their ideas and findings, promoting a multiple research perspectives.

Papers on the following areas are welcome:
- the role of regulation in improving audit quality
- corporate governance systems and their impact on audit quality
- audit quality and ethical standards
- auditor characteristics (independence, reputation, industry specialization) and audit quality
- auditor personal and professional skills as key drivers of audit quality
- audit market structure and audit quality
- audit quality and client pressure
- accounting education and audit quality
- litigation and audit quality
- accelerating audit reporting regimes and audit quality
- measurement of audit quality

The call for papers is now closed.

Paper submission deadline: The call for papers is now closed

Notification of Acceptance: 15th July 2008

Final paper submission deadline: 1st September 2008

The workshop will be held at Università Bocconi, Milan

http://www.uni-bocconi.it/

Via Sarfatti 25
i - 20136 Milano
Tel. +39 02 5836.1

TRANSPORT

HOW TO REACH BOCCONI CAMPUS

Map with the location of the Campus (click here)

Arriving from Linate Airport

Take bus 73 or 65 to Piazza 5 giornate, then take tram 9 or 30, get off at Via Bocconi/Viale Bligny.
Taxi rate: around 15-20 €
Public transportation: around 1 €.

Arriving from Malpensa 2000 Airport

Take the Malpensa Shuttle to Stazione Centrale, then Underground line 3 (yellow) direction S. Donato, get off at Porta Romana, then take tram 9 or 30
Take the Malpensa Express to Stazione Cadorna, then Underground line 2 (green) direction Famagosta, get off at Porta Genova, and take tram 29 
It is advisable to catch a train to the center of Milan (around 11 €) and then public transportation (around 1 €) or taxi (from the railway station to the workshop venue the cost is around 15 €).
A taxi from Malpensa to the workshop venue is very expensive (around 90 €).

Arriving from Stazione Centrale (Central Milan Train Station)

Take Underground line 3 (yellow) direction S. Donato, get off at Porta Romana, then take tram 9 or 30

Arriving by car

Tangenziale Ovest Milan exit Viale Liguria

Links to websites of airport/trains/buses 

• http://www.sea-aeroportimilano.it/ (in the site there is all useful information to reach downtown)
• For public transportation inside the town see www.atm-mi.it

ACCOMMODATION

Please click HERE to download a list of suggested hotels.
The best and nearest are : D’Este and Liberty.

When you send an e-mail to the hotels in the list above, please mention the following in order to receive the rates mentioned: "I will participate at a conference at SDA Bocconi."

Here is a USEFUL MAP of the university and HOTEL names.

FEES

The fees include participation to the workshop, the documents, the coffee breaks and lunches, and an evening dinner.

Cancellations made before September 7, 2008 will be reimbursed minus 20% of the total fee. No reimbursement will be possible after that date.

Payments should be made by :

• The following credit cards: Visa or Eurocard/Mastercard/Access

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