Wednesday, 4 November 2015
Agenda item 1. Election of officers
Agenda item 2. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work
Opening: Jim Obazee, Chief Executive Officer, Financial Reporting Council, Nigeria and Chair of the twenty-ninth session of ISAR
Opening remarks: Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General, UNCTAD
Election of Chair and Vice-Chair-cum Rapporteur
Vania da Costa Borgerth, Special Adviser to the Chief Executive Officer, Brazilian Development Bank (Chair nominee)
Gerard Ee, President, Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants(Vice-Chair Nominee)
Keynote address: Russell G. Golden, Chair, Financial Accounting Standards Board
High-level segment: Major trends and challenges towards high-quality corporate reporting
Dorothé Sossa, Permanent Secretary, Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa
Valérie Ledure, Deputy Head of Unit, Accounting and Financial Reporting, European Commission
Karel Van Hulle, Member,Public Interest Oversight Board
Janine van Diggelen, Chair, International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators
Ian Mackintosh, Vice-Chair, International Accounting Standards Board
Warren Allen, Past President, International Federation of Accountants
Plenary discussion
Lunch break
Agenda item 3. Key foundations of high-quality reporting: International audit and assurance requirements and good practices in their implementation
Introduction
Tatiana Krylova, Head, Enterprise Branch, Division on Investment and Enterprise, UNCTAD
Marek Grabowski, Member, International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board
Louise Eggett, Secretariat,Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
Verena Farré Capdevila, Head, Department of Audit of Financial Statements/Report on the Federal Financial Statement, Austrian Court of Audit
Michael Stewart, Director, Implementation Activities, International Accounting Standards Board
Plenary discussion
Thursday, 5 November 2015
Agenda item 3. Key foundations of high-quality reporting: International audit and assurance requirements and good practices on their implementation (continued)
Oscar Pajuelo Ramírez, Accountant General, Department of Public Accounting, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Peru
Richard Thorpe, Adviser Accounting and Auditing, Financial Stability Board
Henri Fortin, Head, Centre for Financial Reporting Reform, World Bank
Paul Thompson, Director, Global Accountancy Profession Support, International Federation of Accountants
Antoni Gómez, Member,Spanish Institute of Chartered Accountants
Bodo Richardt, President, European Federation of Accountants and Auditors for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Plenary discussion
Lunch break
Agenda item 4. Review of good practices on enhancing the role of corporate reporting in attaining Sustainable Development Goals
Introduction by the UNCTAD secretariat
Richard Martin, Chair, ISAR Consultative Group on Corporate Reporting and Sustainable Development Goals
Elisa Tonda, Acting Head, Responsible Industry and Value Chain Unit, United Nations Environment Programme
Teresa Fogelberg, Deputy Chief Executive, Global Reporting Initiative
Neil Stevenson, Managing Director, Global Implementation, International Integrated Reporting Council
Robin Edme, President, Group of Friends of Paragraph 47
Stathis Gould, Senior Technical Manager and Head of Professional Accountants in Business, International Federation of Accountants
Lois Guthrie, Executive Director, Climate Disclosure Standards Board
Plenary discussion
Friday, 6 November 2015
Consideration of outcomes of agenda items 3 and 4
Agenda item 5. Other business
Guidance on good practices in the area of compliance monitoring and enforcement
Introduction by the UNCTAD secretariat
Tetiana Iefymenko, President/Liudmyla Lovinska, Deputy Director-Academy of Financial Management, Ministry of Finance, Ukraine
Jim Obazee, Chief Executive Officer, Financial Reporting Council, Nigeria
Gerard Ee, President, Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants
Stuart Diack, Partner, Deloitte, LLP
Paul Thompson, Director, Global Accountancy Profession Support, International Federation of Accountants
Sha Ali Khan, Director, Practice Monitoring, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
Kurt Ramin, Director, KPR Associates and former Partner, PwC
Plenary discussion
Lunch break
Agenda item 5. Other business (continued)
Online version of the Accounting Development Tool (e-ADT) and updates on ADT implementations
UNCTAD secretariat
Arman Bekturova, Director, Ministry of Finance, Kazakhstan
Agenda item 5. Other business (continued)
Updates by international and regional organizations
Michael Stewart, Director of Implementation Activities, International Accounting Standards Board
Natalia Manuilova, Senior Financial Management Specialist, Centre for Financial Reporting Reform, World Bank
Stathis Gould, Senior Technical Manager and Head of Professional Accountants in Business, International Federation of Accountants
Teresa Fogelberg, Deputy Chief Executive, Global Reporting Initiative
Matthias Schmidt, Region Lead, International Integrated Reporting Council
Maria Casado, Secretary General,Federation of Mediterranean Certified Accountants
Consideration of outcomes of agenda item 5
Agenda item 6. Provisional agenda for the thirty-third session
Agenda item 7. Adoption of the report