Please note that the CIGAR Workshop is primarily aimed to be held physically, but the workshop organizers will offer a virtual participation of the CIGAR Workshop for those in need. In the parallel sessions an online track will be offered for them.
The CIGAR Workshop on Thursday will take place in Cottbus and the events on Friday will take place in Berlin. Workshop participants will be brought from Cottbus to Berlin on Friday morning.
Here you will find the programme of the CIGAR Workshop:
Thursday 22 September 2022
Venue: Heinrich-Zille-Straße 120, 03042 Cottbus (next to the Best Western Hotel in Cottbus)
| 8.45 – 9.30 | Registration of Workshop Participants |
| 9.30 – 11.00 | Welcome and Plenary Session |
| Welcome address by the Chair of CIGAR and on behalf of the Conference Organizers Professor Dr. Berit Adam and Dr. Jens Heiling. | |
| Plenary session with keynote speakers: Chair: Professor Dr. Christina Schaefer, University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg and Professor Dr. Peter Lorson, University of Rostock | |
| “Educating for Institutional Change in Public Sector Accounting? – An academic perspective“, Prof. Dr. Christoph Reichard, Emeritus, University of Potsdam “Educating for Institutional Change in Public Sector Accounting? – A stakeholders’ perspective”, Prof. Dr. Sandra Cohen, Athens University of Economics and Business “Educating for Institutional Change in Public Sector Accounting? – A practitioner’s perspective“, Harald Bott and Dr. Gerrit Rüdiger, Ministry of Finance, State of Hessen | |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11.30 – 1.00 | Parallel sessions (Paper presentations) + 1 online track |
| 1.00 – 2.00 | Lunch |
| 2.00 – 3.30 | Parallel sessions (Paper presentations) + 1 online track |
| 3.30 – 4.00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 4.00 – 5.30 | Parallel sessions (Paper presentations) + 1 online track |
| 7:00 | Workshop Dinner at the Spreewehrmühle |
Please find the schedule of the parallel session here:
Friday 23 September 2022
Venue: Hessische Landesvertretung beim Bund, In den Ministergärten 5, 10117 Berlin
Participants that only attend the Friday event (i.e. the second half of the CIGAR Workshop Friday morning and the IPSASB Research Forum on Friday afternoon) can check-in for the Friday event from 9:30 am that day.
| 10.00 – 11.30 | Welcome and Plenary Session |
| Welcome by the host Michael Boddenberg, Minister of Finance, State of Hessen | |
| Plenary session with keynote speakers: Chair: Professor Dr. Dorothea Greiling and Thomas Müller-Marqués Berger | |
| “International Public Sector Accounting: Status Quo and Current Developments“, Ian Carruthers, Chair of IPSASB “European Public Sector Accounting: Status Quo and Current Developments“, John Verrinder, Eurostat “Experiences and Lessons Learned from the IPSAS Project of the State of Hessen”, Dr. Martin J. Worms, State Secretary, Ministry of Finance, State of Hessen | |
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 12.00 – 12.45 | Closing session: |
| CIGAR General Assembly Public Sector Accounting Education in an International Comparative Perspective (Recap of the Workshop) |