2007 International Conference on XBRL: Taxonomies and Assurance

SpringHill Suites & Adams Alumni Center, Lawrence, Kansas, USA

May 11-12, 2007

Friday, May 11

7:30 - 8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 8:10 Welcome by Bill Fuerst, Dean, KU School of Business, and by Bruce Snyder, Partner, Ernst & Young LLP

8:10 - 8:20 "Overview of E&Y CARAT Activities," -Rajendra Srivastava (rsrivastava@ku.edu), University of Kansas

8:20 - 10:10 Session I: XBRL Developments, and Prospects for Adoption and Use

Session Chair: Professor Jim Heintz, University of Kansas

"Report on the XBRL-US GAAP Taxonomy Project,"-Mark Bolgiano (mark.bolgiano@xbrl.us), President & CEO, XBRL.US, USA

"Improving the Prospects for XBRL Adoption and Use,"-Graham Gal, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Guido Geerts, University of Delaware, and William McCarthy, Michigan State University (mccarthy@bus.msu.edu), USA

"Capturing US GAAP Correctly in XBRL,"-Neal J. Hannon (njhannon@f-a-f.org), Director, Financial Reporting Technologies, Financial Accounting Foundation

"Transforming Financial Information -Use of XBRL in Federal Financial Management,"-Donald Geiger (Donald.Geiger@do.treas.gov), U.S. Department of the Treasury

10:10 -10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 -12:20 Session II: XBRL Assurance, and Solving Real World Problems

Session Chair: Professor Kevin Smith, University of Kansas

"Report on the AICPA XBRL Assurance Task Force,-Daniel Roberts (Daniel.Roberts@GT.com), Grant Thornton LLP, USA

"Auditing an XBRL Instance Document: The Case of United Technologies Corporation,"-J. Efrim Boritz (jeboritz@uwaterloo.ca), and Won Gyun No, University of Waterloo, Canada

"The impact of electronic business reporting on audit and assurance: A new challenge for the audit profession," -Jan Pasmooij (j.pasmooij@nivra.nl), Royal NIVRA, NETHERLANDS

"XBRL: Solving Real World Problems,"-Glen L. Gray (glen.gray@csun.edu), California State University, Northridge, CA, USA

12:20 -1:40 Lunch: "Importance of Taxonomies for Financial Reporting,-Paul Penler, Ernst & Young

1:40 -3:30 Session III: Using Taxonomies

Session Chair: Professor Raquel Alexander, University of Kansas

"SEC-s XBRL filing program- developing an implementation framework,"-Jay Chandran (jayc@simplexdtech.com), Senior Partner, SimpleX Data Technologies, Fremont, CA, USA

"Search Engines for Extracting, Managing, and Analyzing Knowledge from the SEC Filings in XBRL and Beyond,"-Rajendra Srivastava (rsrivastava@ku.edu), University of Kansas, KS, USA

"Challenges in Creating an XBRL Taxonomy for the US Capital Market,"-Liv Watson (lwatson@edgar-online.com), Edgar-online, USA

"A Relational Data Model for Storing General Ledger Data Based on XBRL GL,"-David Steier (david.m.steier@us.pwc.com) and Gianluca Garbellotto, Center For Advanced Research, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, San Jose CA 95113, USA

3:30 -3:45 Coffee Break

3:45 -5:15 Session IV: Panel Discussion on XBRL Research and Business Opportunities

Session Chair: Professor Ed O-Donnell, University of Kansas

Panel Members:

Paul Penler, Ernst & Young LLP

Eric Cohen, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Bill McCarthy, Michigan State University

Efrim Boritz, University of Waterloo

6:30 -7:00 Cocktails and Socializing

7:00-8:30 Dinner: Keynote speaker - David Plumlee (plumleed@SEC.GOV), SEC Academic Fellow,-Thoughts on the US GAAP Taxonomy Project-at Adam Alumni Center.

Saturday, May 12

7:30 -8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:00-10:00 Session V: Corporate Governance, Control Systems and Multi-Jurisdictions

Session Chair: Professor Mike Ettredge, University of Kansas

"XBRL: Meeting Challenges of Corporate Governance Reporting and Documentation,"-Saeed Roohani (sroohani@cox.net), Bryant University, USA

"When Multiple Jurisdiction Situations Impact Firms, What are the XBRL Taxonomy Configuration Issues?"-Zane Swanson (zswanson@emporia.edu), George Durler, and William Remmington, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, USA

"Using Logic to Model and Audit Agent Communities of Control Systems in XBRL Environments,"-Rob Nehmer (nehmer@oakland.edu), Oakland University, USA

"The Effect of Assurance about the Appropriateness of XBRL-Financial Statements on Investors-Investment Decisions,"-Roopa Chandrasekhar (rchandra@unlnotes.unl.edu) and Linda Ruchala, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Session VI: XBRL Taxonomy Quality, Analytical Tools and E&Y CARAT Research Activities

Session Chair: Chan Li, University of Kansas

"XBRL and Information Quality: Promise, Progress, and Future Benefits,"-