August 2021 Update
NEWSLETTER
2021 - 2022 Research Grants Round 2
The AFAANZ Research Fund (ARF) Annual Grants Program is designed to encourage and support members by providing funding for research projects. The 2021 Round 2 will focus on quality projects that address or respond to contemporary and future challenges to, and/or have implications for, accounting and finance practice, policy and/or the professions. Grants are competitive, and are primarily intended to support small-scale projects of up to one year’s duration or to assist in seed funding for larger scale projects.
Applicants must demonstrate their ability to conduct the proposed research and show how the project will benefit the research profile of the individuals and the discipline.
Round 2 funding will be funded from AFAANZ reserves, so access to the ARF will be open to all AFAANZ members.
To view categories, eligibility and application process please see HERE.
Closing Date: 30 September 2021
Call for volunteers
The Research Grants Committee is looking for volunteers to join the assessment panel for round 2. If you are interested, can you please email info@afaanz.org to register your interest along with the following details:
- Title
- Name
- Affliliation
- Area of expertise
- Methodology of expertise
CPA Australia Global Research Perspectives Program
Open for applications 2021
Applications are now open for our grant program, the Global Research Perspectives Program (GRPP) that is managed and sponsored by CPA Australia.
Through the Global Research Perspectives Program, CPA Australia seeks to foster bold and innovative research that addresses pressing issues and drives innovation and the application of new knowledge for the benefit of members, the profession and the global business community, governments, regulators, and international accounting and finance peak bodies. To assist researchers, CPA Australia has developed broad focus areas that are of interest to the organisation and its membership. All research applications must be aligned to one of the chosen research themes.
The 2021 research themes are:
- Impacts of technology and digital transformation on the accountancy profession
- The role of the accountancy profession in addressing the impacts of climate change and long-term sustainability
- The future of corporate reporting
- Ethics and integrity in the accountancy profession and business environment
- Hybridisation of accounting employability skills
- Tax reform.
Visit our website to find out more about the grant selection criteria, terms and conditions, and to download an Expression of Interest form.
Expression of Interest Applications close on 31 August 2021.
If you have any further enquiries, please direct them to the Research Inbox, Emily Cunningham or Luke Hansen at CPA Australia
The global pandemic, COVID-19, continues to have major impacts on us all, and is an international health calamity not weathered in our lived experiences. It is changing the world and the way we think and act. Australian public universities have been heavily impacted by the crises, especially from the point of view of now seeking to manage significantly less income being earned from fee paying onshore overseas students. The fallout in Australian public universities continues to occur, which implications for commerce disciplines and particularly in the accounting discipline.
We need your input and to help identify opportunities for the future with a clear vision of the risks that present themselves at this time.
Panellists:
Garry Carnegie (Moderator), Nicola Beatson, Corinne Cortese, Victoria Clout, Brendan O’Connell and Meredith Tharapos
To register for these events, click HERE.
To register for these events, click HERE.
How is everyone doing in these are very challenging times? What’s brewing at AccountingPod?
Here’s a chance to join our Product update presentation in September and be part of our 2022 roadmap
Date and Time: 1pm AEST, Wednesday 15 September 2021 - Register HERE
A few things currently brewing:
- Tech: more feedback and insight, smarter content and algorithmic creation
- Content: consolidations, budgets & forecasts, data analytics, tax, payroll & BAS cases
- Connections: things we plug-in to – cloud accounting, integrated reporting, Tableau, MSFT PowerBI, Excel
Xero Learn retirement:
Offer to get you started on Xero: XeroLearn YAML templates conversion – reach out now for 2022.
Short demo
If you need a primer on “what is AccountingPod”, we’ll run through a short demo starting 15 minutes prior to the September update. Meantime, check out this link: https://accountingpod.com/teaching/
AccountingPod – smart technology that connects your students’ hands-on to the real tools of business and saves teachers time!
2022 Australian Accounting Hall of Fame Awards
Nominations for next year are open from 1 August to 23 October 2021, and the event will be held on Wednesday, 2 March 2022. Registrations will open in January. The event will take place as a dinner and will be recorded for those who cannot attend.
The nomination form and full details are available HERE
We have some great prizes on offer! CA ANZ is awarding prizes of $1,000, $700 and $300 to the top students on the leaderboard at the end of the competition. Additionally, MYOB are giving away a $100 prize each week ($1,000 total)!
Accounting educators will also have a chance to win with a $500 prize from AFAANZ to be awarded to the top student’s educator.
To be in the running students will need to: 1. Download the Quitch app and register with your university/institution email → http://quitch.app.link/ 2. Enrol in the First Year Accounting Competition class via the Quitch marketplace 3. Answer the weekly questions
Competition closes at 5:00PM AEDT on Wednesday 20 October 2021. Winners will be announced 22 October 2021. Full T&Cs apply. Good luck!
ASIA PACIFIC INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN ACCOUNTING
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP EVENT
Critical issues in the Qualitative Accounting Research Tradition
After Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal's first two APIRA thought leadership events for 2021, the final 2021 event 3 to be held on September 9 features:
Presenters:
- Professor Ileana Steccolini, University of Essex and
- Professor Brendan O’Dwyer, University of Amsterdam & University of Manchester
(Q&A moderated by Distinguished Professor Lee Parker)
The 90 minute event will be recorded and available to registrants on the APIRA webpage for a period of one week after the actual event.
Register now for this event on the APIRA webpage: https://apira.onlive.events/
The Accounting for Social Impact Research Group at AUT will host the Accounting for Social Impact Case Competition on Friday, 26 November 2021, in Auckland, New Zealand. The event aims to promote students’ understanding of how accounting technologies and practices can be used to develop innovative solutions to address real-world problems. See more HERE
Registration is now open for the 2021 Center for Accounting Research and Education Conference – Accounting for Sustainability and Responsible Investing
VIRTUAL - 22 Sept 2021 & 29 Sept 2021
OVERVIEW: There is no denying the global climate is changing. 2019 was the second warmest year on record, and ended the warmest decade on record. Climate change is affecting every continent on earth, disrupting the economy and affecting lives. The Paris Agreement, adopted in 2015, aims to strengthen the ability of countries to deal with the impacts of climate change through appropriate financial flows and new technology frameworks; additionally, the UN Secretary-General has proposed six climate-positive actions for governments to take as they begin to individually and collectively begin to build back the economy post-pandemic. Companies will need to adopt long-term systemic shifts to address the changes necessary to comply with the Paris Agreement. This conference will discuss some of the changes that will be necessary to create the accounting framework for sustainability and responsible investing necessary moving forward. All details are available HERE
CALL FOR PAPERS and EXEMPLARS
Environmental, Social and Governance for sustainability Conference
The Victoria University Business School and Institute for Sustainable Industries & Liveable Cities with the support of CMA Australia is hosting a research conference on Friday the 29th October 2021 (Hybrid Event).
We invite papers /abstracts that investigate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues such as ESG reporting, assurance, regulations, UN sustainability goals, ESG measurement, circular economy, investor expectations and involvement of different sectors including not for profit and public sector. This year, the conference will also focus on the impact of COVID 19 and future priorities. Deadline for papers/abstracts: 31st of August 2021. For more details, click HERE
Journal of Accounting Education
The Journal of Accounting Education (JAED) invites papers on any aspect of sustainability in accounting education for a special issue. Possible topics include but are not limited to incorporating the UN Sustainable Development Goals into accounting curriculum, preparing future accountants to contribute to a broader reporting landscape including the Global Reporting Initiative and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Standards and the International Integrated Reporting Council Framework, student perceptions of sustainability in accounting education, incorporating sustainability related case studies into the accounting curriculum, facilitating interdisciplinary approaches in accounting education, and sustainability related work integrated learning for accounting students. For more details, click HERE
The deadline for submissions is 1 November 2021.
The International Journal of Auditing is going to have a special issue on “Auditing and Assurance for Small Entities.” Please click here for the Call for Papers. The closing date is Feb 28, 2022
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and The Accounting Review (TAR) have issued a joint call for academic research papers on how key standards are performing in the capital markets. Selected papers will be presented at a joint conference titled Accounting for an Ever-Changing World, currently scheduled for 2-4 November 2022 in New York City, and will be considered for publication in TAR (a publication of the American Accounting Association). For full details click HERE
The deadline to submit papers is 15 May 2022
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