Public Lectures

Public Lectures

SOAR Public Lecture forms part of the Centre's efforts to disseminate knowledge and thought-leadership. It offers the community the opportunity to attend topical, interesting, educational lectures on a range of topics given by experts in their fields and provide a chance to hear firsthand from world-leading researchers and subject-matter experts speaking on current topics.

To receive notifications on upcoming public lectures, please email soar@smu.edu.sg.

For information on Cheng Tsang Man Professorship Public Lecture, please click here.

Past Lectures

2015

Date: Friday 23 January 2015
Topic: "Revising Financial Performance Reporting: Is it the Key to Resolving Some of the Most Challenging Accounting Standards Setting Issues?"
Speaker: Dr Thomas J Linsmeier, Board Member, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
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2011

Date: Thursday 8 December 2011
Topic: "Global Comparability in Financial Reporting: Why, How, and When?"
Speaker: Dr Mary Barth, Joan E Horngren Professor of Accounting, Stanford University
Celia Moh Professorship (2011)

2009

Date: Tuesday 27 October 2009
Topic: "Towards Greater Corporate Governance and Accountability of Chinese Listed Firms – Role of Government, Markets and Institutions"
Speaker: Dr T J Wong, Dean at the Faculty of Business Administration and Chair Professor of Accountancy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Visiting Professor Ho Bee Professorship in Chinese Economy & Business (2009)

2005

Date: Thursday 1 September 2005
Topic: "American, European and Asia-Pacific Corporate Governance Models: Differences and Convergence"
Speaker: Dr Ray Ball, Sidney Davidson Professor of Accounting, The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business