A Two-day Conference Organised by THEi in Collaboration with the Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics (JCAE)

 

 

Business Sustainability and Corporate Governance -

Performance, Reporting and Assurance

 

 

Introduction: 

Non-financial information has generated growing interests from the accounting and finance communities over the past decades.  There is a substantial increase in the voluntary disclosure of the firms' environmental, social and governance activities. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange has promulgated in 2015 a requirement of an integrated sustainability and corporate governance report for Hong Kong listed companies.

 

A  two-day Conference#, organized by the Professional Accounting Programme of the Faculty of Management and Hospitality at THEi will be held in June 2016.  It will focus on the "performance, reporting and assurance" functions of business sustainability and corporate governance by bringing together academics, accounting practitioners and professional bodies to share the economic and theoretical underpinnings, industry best practices and experiences. 

 

 

Programme:

The programme comprises Keynote Speeches, Research Paper Sessions, Panels on Best Practices and Assurance of Business Sustainability and Corporate Governance. Keynote speakers include Professor Gordon Richardson (KPMG Professor of Accounting, University of Toronto), Mr. Stephen Taylor (Senior Partner, Deloitte China) and Mr. Pat-Nie Woo (Principal of Business Reporting and Sustainability, KPMG).

 

 

Research Paper Presentation:

High quality research papers on corporate governance and business sustainability will be presented in the Conference.  Submission is now closed.  Accepted papers will be considered for publication in the JCAE with the ultimate acceptance to the journal to be determined according to the JCAE editorial policies.

 

 

Call for Sponsorship:

Your organization is cordially invited to be a sponsor for the Conference.  Your sponsorship will include the following privileges.

 

• 4 complimentary tickets to the Conference,
• Promotion materials distributed at registration desk,
• Logo* on backdrop on stage,
• Half page colour ad in the programme booklet,
• Logo/name* and hyperlink on this website,
• Logo* on promotional materials such as banner, poster, leaflet, etc.

 

 

Call for Participation:

You are cordially invited to attend the Conference⁺.  A certificate of your attendance will be issued during the Conference.  Please check with your professional bodies for fulfillment of CPD requirements.

 

 

Information and Contact:

For further information of the Conference, please contact Professor Peter CHENG (pcheng@vtc.edu.hk) or Miss Yvonne WU (yvonnewu@vtc.edu.hk). 

 

 

Please click the links below for:

Programme Rundown

Sponsorship Form

Participation Form

 

 

Acknowledgement:

We gratefully acknowledge sponsorship of the following organisations.

 

 

Airport Authority Hong Kong       

 

Baker Tilly Hong Kong    

 

BDO Limited            

 

CPA Australia                      

 

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu           

 

Ernst & Young      

 

Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants      

 

Shanghai Commercial Bank     

 

Swire Properties          

 

 

#The Conference was partially supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. UGC/IIDS25/B01/15).

*The organizers reserve the rights to decide the size of the logo/name and the location to be placed for each individual logo/name of the sponsor on all materials.

+Conference fee of HK$2,500 per person is payable for the two-day Conference when the participant is NOT an academic/a teaching staff of a tertiary institution in Hong Kong.