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Disputation: Gordon Mwintome: Essays on Auditor Choice and Audit Disclosures
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Gordon Mwintome of the School of Business and Law at the University of Agder has submitted his thesis entitled «Essays on Auditor Choice and Audit Disclosures» and will defend the thesis for the PhD-degree Monday 27 June 2022.
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Gordon Mwintome of the School of Business and Law at the University of Agder has submitted his thesis entitled «Essays on Auditor Choice and Audit Disclosures» and will defend the thesis for the PhD-degree Monday 27 June 2022.
He has followed the PhD-programme at the School of Business and Law at the University of Agder.
Read the summary of the thesis by Gordon Mwintome:
The trial lecture and the public defence will take place in Auditorium I1 066 - Ketil Moes house, Campus Kristiansand and online, via the Zoom conferencing app - link below.
Dean Roger Normann, School of Business and Law at the University of Agder, will chair the disputation.
The trial lecture Monday 27 June at 10:00 hours
Public defence Monday 27 June at 11:15 hours
Given topic for trial lecture: «The role of auditors and auditing committees in developed versus developing economies»
Thesis Title: «Essays on Auditor Choice and Audit Disclosures»
Search for the thesis in AURA - Agder University Research Archive, a digital archive of scientific papers, theses and dissertations from the academic staff and students at the University of Agder.
The thesis is available here:
PhD Thesis Gordon Mwintome_Final Thesis
The Candidate: Gordon Mwintome (1989, Ghana ) Bachelor's and master’s degree from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi-Ghana.
Opponents:
First opponent: Professor Minna Martikainen, University of Vaasa, Finland
Second opponent: Associate Professor Carmen Olsen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Professor Emeritus Lars Oxelheim, University of Agder, is appointed as the administrator for the assessment committee.
Supervisor in the doctoral work were Professor Anna Alon, University of Agder.
What to do as an online audience member:
The disputation is open to the public, but to follow the trial lecture and the public defence online, transmitted via the Zoom conferencing app, you have to register as an audience member on this link:
https://uiano.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5wud--grTIoHdDOjwc0NcJqF7mZpYbgW2X9
A Zoom-link will be returned to you. (Here are introductions for how to use Zoom: support.zoom.us if you cannot join by clicking on the link.)
We ask online audience members to join the virtual trial lecture at 09:50 at the earliest and the public defense at 11:05 at the earliest. After these times, you can leave and rejoin the meeting at any time. Further, we ask audience members to turn off their microphone and camera and keep them turned off throughout the event. You do this at the bottom left of the image when in Zoom. We recommend you use ‘Speaker view’. You select that at the top right corner of the video window when in Zoom.
Opponent ex auditorio:
The chair invites members of the public to pose questions ex auditorio in the introduction to the public defense. Deadline is during the break between the two opponents. The person asking questions should have read the thesis. For online audience the Contact Persons e-mail are available in the chat function during the Public Defense, and questions ex auditorio can be submitted to Gunvor Guttormsen on e-mail gunvor.guttormsen@uia.no