FINAL PROGRAMME

12^th PhD Colloquium, Lecture room 51, Center for Graduate Study Programmes (ground floor EAST)

• 1:30pm – Reception and opening – Susana Jorge, Dorothea Greiling and Nives Botica-Redmayne
• Update!!! Welcome speech Full professor Ivana Mamić Sačer, PhD, Head of accounting department and the president of the Board for postdoctoral scientific studies at Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb

Chair: Susana Jorge

1:45pm-2:30pm – Daniel Iannaci – «Communication and data processing new tools in local public group, transparency and accountability»

Discussant: Anamaria Dan

Chair: Dorothea Greiling

2:30pm-3:15pm – Anamaria Dan – «Bonds issuance influence on the transparency of local governments - Romania case study»

Discussant: Cecilia Langella

3:15pm-4:00pm – Gianluca Zanellato – «Use and usefulness of integrated reporting in the case of European state-owned enterprises»

Discussant: Gorana Roje

4:00PM-4:15PM – COFFEE BREAK

Chair: Nives Botica-Redmayne

4:15pm-5:00pm – Gorana Roje – «The role of accounting information in State assets management»

Discussant: Daniel Iannaci

5:00pm-5:45pm – Cecilia Langella – «The board of statutory auditors and financial reporting quality – Evidence from the Italian National Health Service»

Discussant: Gianluca Zanellato

5:45pm-6:00pm – Closing – Susana Jorge, Dorothea Greiling and Nives Botica-Redmayne

6:00PM-7:00PM – INFORMAL LIGHT DINNER (PhD SEMINAR PARTICIPANTS AND CIGAR BOARD)

7:00pm-9:00pm – CIGAR Board meeting (FEB building closing at 9:00pm)

• 8.30-9.30am Registration (in front of the Lecture room 3, WEST Central Building)
• 9.30-11.00am Welcome and Plenary Session (Lecture room: 3, WEST Central Building)

Opening remarks: Professor Vesna Vašiček (Chairperson, FEB, University of Zagreb; Principal Investigator of Croatian Science Foundation project)

Welcome speech: Full Professor Jurica Pavičić, PhD, Vice Dean for international relations and accreditations at the FEB, and professor at the Department of Marketing

Plenary session and keynote speakers:

Chair: Professor Vesna Vašiček

― “Harmonizing financial reporting and government finance (macroeconomic) statistics, consolidation issues” (Ivana Jakir – Bajo, M.Sc., Assistant Minister and Chief State Treasurer, Ministry of Finance, Croatia)

― “The role of accounting in achieving (assessing) fiscal responsibility” (Danijela Stepić, University Specialist of Economics, Head of Sector for Budget Preparation, Ministry of Finance, Croatia)

― “The role of accounting in performance auditing” (Božo Vuletić-Antić, M.Sc., Assistant Auditor General for Performance Audit, State Audit Office, Croatia)

• 11.00-11.30am Morning Coffee/Tea
• 11.30am - 1.00pm Concurrent sessions (Lecture rooms: 51 and 54, Center for Graduate Study Programmes (ground floor EAST)
• 1.00 – 2.00 pm Lunch (FEB Restaurant)
• 2.00 - 3.30 pm Concurrent sessions (Lecture rooms: 51 and 54, Center for Graduate Study Programmes (ground floor EAST)
• 3.30 – 4.00 pm Afternoon Coffee/Tea
• 4.00 - 5.30 pm Concurrent sessions (Lecture rooms: 51 and 54, Center for Graduate Study Programmes (ground floor EAST)
• 7:30 pm Workshop Dinner: (Restaurant Vinodol, Teslina 10, Zagreb)

• 9.00 -10.30 am Concurrent sessions (Lecture rooms: 51 and 54, Center for Graduate Study Programmes (ground floor EAST)
• 10.30 -11.00 am Morning Coffee/ Tea
• 11.00 am - 12.30 pm Concurrent sessions (Lecture rooms: 51 and 54, Center for Graduate Study Programmes (ground floor EAST)
• 12.30 - 1.30 pm Lunch (FEB Restaurant)
• 1.30 – 2.30 pm Lecture room: 3, WEST Central Building

Discussion on Public Sector Accounting, Auditing and Control in South Eastern Europe - book in the process of publishing

Chair: Gorana Roje, M.Sc. (Local Organizing Committee Board member, Ministry of State Assets; Croatian Science Foundation project team member)

Editors' introduction: Gorana Roje, Vesna Vašiček

Invited speakers:

Professor Andreas Bergmann, ZHAW School of Management and Law (Switzerland),

Ivana Maletić, M.Sc., Croatian Member of the European Parliament

• 2.30 – 2.45 pm Afternoon Coffee/ Tea
• 2:45 - 4:15 pm Plenary Session with a Panel Discussion (Lecture room: 3, WEST Central Building)

Panel discussion theme: “Public sector accounting and reporting reforms: can we learn (benefit) from other countries experiences”

Chairs: Dr. Nives Botica Redmayne, Massey University, New Zealand, Assistant Professor Susana Jorge, University of Coimbra (Portugal), CIGAR Board Member

Keynote speakers:

― Dr. Alexandre Makaronidis, Head of Unit, Task Force EPSAS, European Commission– Eurostat

― Prof. Dr. Peter Christoph Lorson, Dean, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, The University of Rostock

• 4:15 - 4:45pm Closing remarks (Lecture room: 3, WEST Central Building)

Professor Eugenio Caperchione, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy), chairman of the CIGAR Board

Professor Vesna Vašiček (Chairperson, FEB, University of Zagreb; Principal Investigator of Croatian Science Foundation project)

• 5pm – 6.30pm Workshop City tour (Bus will be leaving FEB premises at 5pm)

Evening to relax in Zagreb