Newswise — WHAT: The 18th annual conference on current issues in corporate financial reporting, hosted by the Center for Financial Reporting and Management at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business. The program will draw accounting standard setters, enforcement officials, corporate financial executives, and professional and academic accountants.

Haas School Dean Tom Campbell will announce the recipient of the 2007 Berkeley Award for Distinguished Contributions to Financial Reporting during the lunch presentations.

WHEN: 8:15 a.m.-4:45 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 9

WHERE: San Francisco Airport Marriott1800 Old Bayshore Highway, Burlingame, CAPhone: 1-650-692-9100 WHO: Keynote speakers will include:* Conrad Hewitt, chief accountant, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, who will present the opening address at 8:30 a.m.* James Ratley, president of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, will give the lunch keynote at 1:30 p.m.

Featured speakers also include: * Lawrence Smith of the Financial Accounting Standards Board* Anthony Cope of the International Accounting Standards Board* Bill Gradison of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

DETAILS: For more information or to register, go to http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/accounting/conferences&programs/

Representatives of the media are invited to attend the discussions free of charge.

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