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Centre for Accounting Ethics and CPA Canada present the 4th Ethics Symposium

"The Impact of Technology on Ethics, Professionalism and Judgment in Accounting"

The Centre for Accounting Ethics and CPA Canada in colaboration with University of Waterloo Centre for Information Integrity and Information Systems Assuranceare (UWCISA) and the Journal for Business Ethics are proud to bring together thought leaders from academia and business to explore and discuss the influence of technology on all aspects of the accounting profession and its practice. The Thematic Symposium seeks to understand and highlight the ethical consequences of technology on the accounting profession, accounting professionalism and recipients and users of all accounting services. This event will provide an opportunity to interact and share ideas throughout the symposium.

Registration soon to be available.

Theme

The Impact of Technology on Ethics, Professionalism and Judgement in Accounting

Historically accounting researchers analyzed accounting decision making in terms of two distinct components (Gaa and Thorne, 2004): the technical and the ethical/professional. Increasingly technology is being adopted in order to enhance the effectiveness and accuracy of accounting decision making. While forecasts in this regard may well be exaggerated, some reports in the media and by PWC have suggested that by 2030 between 40 and 90 percent of all accounting functions will be replaced by technology (Newsweek, 2016; Fortune, 2017). This Thematic Symposium seeks to identify the extent to which technology influences both technical and ethical/professional decision making in accounting. What are the threats and the advantages of relying upon technology for the accounting profession and the public whose interest it is intended to protect?

2019 Program

The Impact of Technology on Ethics, Professionalism and Judgment in Accounting
CPA Canada, 277 Wellington St. W., Toronto

This is a draft outline of the program. Exact times and content will be posted closer to the date of the symposium.

Thursday, April 25
Time	Activity
8:00 am to 8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45	Welcome Linda Robinson, Director, Centre for Accounting Ethics Director, School of Accounting and Finance
8:45 - 10:00 am	Paper 1 Moderator: Presenter: Academic Discussant: Practitioner Discussant:
10:00 - 10:30 am	Break
10:30 - 11:45 am	Paper 2 Moderator: Presenter: Academic Discussant: Practitioner Discussant:
1145 pm to 12:15 pm	Poster Session - Canadian Doctoral Students TBD Poster mentors TBD
12:15 - 1:00	Lunch
1:00 - 2:15	Paper 3 Moderator: Presenter: Academic Discussant: Practitioner Discussant:
2:15 - 3:45	Panel / Speaker
3:45 - 4:15	break
4:15 - 5:30	Presentation
5:30 - 6:30	Reception
6:30 pm to 6:45	Walk to Restaurant
6:45 pm	Dinner at Restaurant Set menu at Restaurant. Participants to pay for their own meal.

Friday, April 26
Time	Activity
8:00 am to 9:00am	Breakfast buffet
9:00 am to 10:15am	Paper 4 Moderator: Presenter: Academic Discussant: Practitioner Discussant:
10:15 am to 10:45am	Break
10:45 am to 12:00 pm	Paper 5 Speaker: Moderator: Presenter: Academic Discussant: Practitioner Discussant:
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm	Lunch Keynote speaker/panel
1:30 pm	Conclusion

Call for papers

The Centre for Accounting Ethics is very pleased that papers from this Symposium may be considered as submissions to the Thematic Symposium of the Journal of Business Ethics.

For more information on the call for papers please follow the link provided. Submission deadline is December 1, 2018. Decisions for acceptance of papers will be finalized and communicated by March 1, 2019.

For more information, call or email Linda Robinson, Director, Centre for Accounting Ethics.

Tel: 519-888-4567 ext. 36995

Email: L2robins@uwaterloo.ca

Poster Competition Canadian Doctoral Students

PROPOSALS AND STUDIES ON ANY ACCOUNTING ETHICS TOPICS CONSIDERED

The Centre for Accounting Ethics at the University of Waterloo is pleased to announce its 4th biennial Symposium to be held in Toronto, Canada on the theme of the impact of technology on ethics, professionalism and judgment in accounting.

The Centre for Accounting Ethics invites Students presently registered in a Canadian Doctoral Program to submit a short proposal for consideration for inclusion in a Poster Session at the Symposium. We encourage students who have a research project on the symposium theme, as well as, those who have a research project focused on any accounting ethics topic to submit a proposal.

The proposal should be up to 1000 words and which addresses one or more of the following:

A research project for which data have already been collected at least in pilot form.
A research project design that includes a description of the literature from which the project flows.
A theoretical problem with proposed research design directions.

Submission deadline is March 1, 2019. Abstracts (proposals) will be subject to blind review and notification will occur by March 29, 2019. Should the abstract be accepted, students will be expected to prepare a poster for the Symposium and be available at the Symposium to make a brief 5 min. presentation during the conference and to discuss its contents during a poster session. The students will be invited to attend the full Symposium and reasonable financial support will be available for those attending from outside of Toronto.

Please submit an electronic copy of the abstract to the Centre for Accounting Ethics Symposium Website.

For more details, please visit https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-accounting-ethics/2019-ethics-symposium or contact Krista Fiolleau, University of Waterloo; krista.fiolleau@uwaterloo.ca