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FARSIG Symposium 2022

Friday 14 - Friday 14 January 2022 Online event

Virtual Symposium on The Future of Financial Reporting 2022: The development of Global Sustainability Standards and their impact on corporate reporting.

The FARSIG Symposium is supported by the British Accounting and Finance Association Financial Accounting & Reporting Special Interest Group and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants will take place on Friday, 14 January 2022 starting at 13.30 (GMT).

The 2022 FARSIG symposium brings together a series of high-profile speakers to discuss about the development of Sustainability Standards and their effect on the future of financial and non-financial reporting. The symposium provides a forum for both practitioners and academics to hear and engage in the debate with the following well-informed speakers:

  • Carol Adams, Professor of Accounting, Durham University 
  • Diogenis Baboukardos, Associate Professor at Essex Business School, University of Essex
  • Harry Briggs , Project Lead for ESG Reporting at Accounting for Sustainability (A4S)
  • Jeffrey Hales, Professor of Accounting, University of Texas, Austin, and Chair of the Standards Board at Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
  • Rachel Neill, Chief Impact Officer at Connected Asset Management.

Please see the symposium flyer for the speaker bios.

The symposium presentations and discussions should also serve as a valuable teaching aid for those academics engaged in teaching financial and non-financial reporting and contemporary issues in accounting at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

REGISTRATION FOR THE SYMPOSIUM

There is no charge for attending the symposium, but attendees must book a place by 11 January 2022.

Register Here

Joining instructions will be issued after the registration deadline on 11 January 2022.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact the organisers: Dr Silvia Gaia, Chair FARSIG, Essex Business School, University of Essex (sgaias@essex.ac.uk) and Dr Penny Chaidali, Accounting and Finance Section, Cardiff University (chaidalip@cardiff.ac.uk).