VITÓRIA, Brazil—Samuel Tiras, KPMG LLP Endowed Professor and associate professor and chair of the LSU Department of Accounting, recently presented the keynote speech at the Fifth National Association of Graduate Programs in Accounting Congress, a conference held Wednesday, June 20-22, 2011 at the Golden Tulip Porto Vitória Hotel.

Tiras delivered his presentation, “Economic Value Added Analysis: applications to professionals and accounting research,” during the second day of the conference and noted that it was simultaneously translated into Portuguese. Additionally, he stated that Department of Accounting Assistant Professor Carol Liu also attended the conference.

“Our attendance was intended to grow our partnership with USP (University of São Paulo and expand LSU’s global efforts,” Tiras said. “The conference gave us an opportunity to discuss expanding the university’s accounting research into Brazil and developing joint projects that will benefit not only LSU a and the researchers in Brazil but the entire accounting community as accounting standards move toward International Financial Reporting Standards.”

According to Tiras, USP Chair of the Department of Accountancy Edgard Cornachione, who has visited and spoken at the E. J. Ourso College on several occasions and has served as a host for the LSU Flores MBA Program when students have traveled to Brazil, was the coordinator of the conference.

The National Association of Graduate Programs conference, referred to as the ANPCONT Congress, gathered 200 participants from around the world and focused on a central theme of “accounting and performance in the new cycle of development.” Discussions throughout the conference included topics on financial markets, capital and credit, accounting for external users, control and management accounting and education and research accounting.

The ANPCONT Congress is a nonprofit event that focuses on the academic and scientific significance of the National Association of Graduate Programs in Accounting and provides the interaction of the academic community, researchers, teachers and students by representing a means of dissemination of technical and scientific production in the area of accounting.

For more information about the ANPCONT Congress, visit www.anpcont.com.br/site.

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