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Smith's Larry Gordon to Speak at London School of Economics' Management Accounting
Research Group
Larry Gordon, Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Managerial Accounting and Information
Assurance and director of the Ph.D. Program, will be the plenary speaker at the
London School of Economics' Management Accounting Research Group (MARG) Conference
on April 6, 2006. The conference is sponsored by the Department of Accounting and
Finance at LSE, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and the
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), with a theme of
"Risk Management & Financial Control."
Management accounting practices revolve around organizational control issues.
Never before have interdependencies between corporate control concerns, risk management
priorities and security technology and computer assurances been more significant
to management and management accounting processes. This year's MARG Conference places
these concerns and cybersecurity issues -defined widely as the control of computer-based
system vulnerabilities including the managerial use of systems - center stage and
discusses a variety of aspects of risk management and management accounting.
"My talk, Risk Management and Cybersecurity: A Management Accounting Perspective,
will focus on my research with Martin Loeb in the area of economic aspects of cybersecurity,"
says Gordon. Gordon goes on to note that "the high academic profile of LSE's accounting
faculty, coupled with the fact that the two main professional accounting organizations
in the UK, are cosponsors of this conference provides strong evidence that our research
is having an important impact on the field of accounting as well as the field of
computer science." There should be at least 150 individuals in attendance at the
2006 MARG Conference, with a roughly even split between academicians and senior
executives/practitioners.
Gordon is the co-author (with Martin Loeb) of the highly acclaimed new book from
McGraw-Hill's Professional Division entitled
Managing
Cybersecurity Resources: A Cost Benefit Analysis. This book was written
in order to bring Gordon and Loeb's research on cybersecurity to a wider audience.
Visit the London School of Economics
Web Site for more information.
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