International Symposium on Audit Research (ISAR) ISAR 2012 The 18th annual International Symposium on Audit Research (ISAR) will be held on June 16 and 17, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan. ISAR 2012 is being hosted by Waseda University (the Waseda University Global Center of Excellence) and sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The Call for Papers for ISAR 2012 is now available. Sign up for our 2012 ISAR email news update. About ISAR The International Symposium on Audit Research (ISAR) was formed in 1995 from a merger of two previous audit research symposia: the USC Audit Judgment Symposium and the Maastricht Audit Research Symposium. ISAR is now co-sponsored by four universities: University of Southern California (USA), Universiteit Maastricht (Netherlands), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and the University of New South Wales (Australia). The Symposium is held annually.