SEC Announces Schedule of Witnesses for Public Hearing on Auditor Independence

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

2000-99

Schedule of Appearances, Public Hearing
July 26, 2000, 9:00 am – 5:30 pm

Washington, D.C., July 20, 2000 – As previously announced, the Commission is holding a public hearing on Wednesday, July 26, 2000 in connection with its proposed rule amendments regarding auditor independence. The hearing will take place in the William O. Douglas Room of the Commission's headquarters at 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549. The following is a schedule of appearances for the hearing:

9:00 am:	Opening Statements by the Chairman and Commissioners
9:20 am:	Session One
	John D. Hawke, Jr., Comptroller of the Currency
9:40 am:	Session Two
	J. Michael Cook, former Chairman and CEO,     Deloitte & Touche
10:00 am:	Session Three
	Rick Antle, Professor of Accounting,     Yale School of Management John C. Coffee, Jr., Professor of Law,     Columbia University Law School Paul B.W. Miller, Professor of Accounting,     University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
11:10 am:	Break
11:20 am:	Session Four
	John H. Biggs, Chairman, President and CEO,     TIAA-CREF Ray J. Groves, former Chairman and CEO,     Ernst & Young
12:00 pm:	Lunch Break
1:00 pm:	Session Five
	Representative, Arthur Andersen Representative, Deloitte & Touche Representative, KPMG
2:00 pm:	Session Six
	Jack T. Ciesielski, R.G. Associates, Inc. and Publisher,     The Analyst's Accounting Observer
2:20 pm:	Session Seven
	William T. Allen, Chair,     Independence Standards Board John C. Bogle, Member,     Independence Standards Board Robert E. Denham, Member,     Independence Standards Board Manuel H. Johnson, Member,     Independence Standards Board
3:10 pm:	Break
3:20 pm:	Session Eight
	George Loewenstein, Professor of Economics and Psychology,     Carnegie Mellon University Max H. Bazerman, Professor, Kellogg Graduate School     of Management, Northwestern University, and     Fellow, Harvard Business School Douglas R. Carmichael, Professor of Accounting,     Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York,     and former Vice-President, AICPA Curtis C. Verschoor, Research Professor,     DePaul University
4:20 pm:	Session Nine
	Dan L. Goldwasser, Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz Alfred M. King, Chairman of the Board,     Valuation Research Corporation Mark Santarsario, President, Marshall & Stevens, Inc. Nimish Patel, Pollet & Richardson
5:30 pm:	Conclusion

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