International Symposium on Audit Research (ISAR) ISAR 2010 The 16th Annual International Symposium on Audit Research (ISAR 2010) will be hosted by Nanyang Technological University on 24 and 25 June, 2010 in Singapore. The full program for ISAR 2010 is now available. The program has two panels, 25 academic papers and a plenary session. The first panel is on "Is Regulation Necessary to Ensure High Audit Quality?" with James Gunn, International Federation of Accountants; Steven Maijoor, Maastricht University and the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM), Chair, International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators (IFIAR) and Juthika Ramanathan, Chief Executive, Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA), Singapore. The second panel is on "Perspectives on Audit Education" with senior audit educators and researchers Bill Kinney and Ira Solomon. The plenary session is on "Recent Developments in Judgment and Decision Making Research: Implications for Auditing" with J. Frank Yates of the University of Michigan. Symposium registration and hotel details are now available. ISAR 2010 is sponsored by: Deloitte Ernst & Young KPMG PricewaterhouseCoopers 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. ISAR 2011 will be hosted by the University of Laval, Quebec City, Canada and ISAR 2012 will be hosted by Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. Sign up for our 2010 ISAR email news update.