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Calls for research

New calls for research on joint audit and mandatory audit firm rotation.

Further details are available here.

For speculative research applications, please see our research funding page.

Focus on Research Newsletter 

The latest edition of our Focus on Research Newsletter has just been issued.

In this edition we ask whether auditors can meet the assurance needs of users; if small company abbreviated accounts are fit for purpose; and investigate the role of comply or explain the field of corporate governance. Read it now...  

Forthcoming events

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New publications

• Operating segments: The usefulness of IFRS 8 (Crawford et al.)
• Teaching and research: Partners or competitors? (Duff and Marriott)
• Risk reporting: Clarity, relevance and location (Abraham et al.)
• Major contributors to the British accountancy profession: A biographical sourcebook (Parker et al.)
   

Recent research events

ICAS hosts regular discussion events to launch and debate findings of key research reports.

For more details and a copy of the presentations, please click on the links below:

• SME reporting and assurance: Regulatory burden or vital requirement? - Oct/Nov 2011 

• Intellectual Capital Reporting - July 2010  

• External Assurance and Management Commentary - July 2010  

• Workforce Health - February 2010