On behalf of the AFAANZ board, we would like to wish everyone the best as 2021 comes to a close.
Thank you to all our members and associates, and especially our Platinum Sponsor, CA ANZ, Gold Sponsor CPA and Bronze Sponsor MYOB for their support during the year.
Highlights of 2021 include our virtual conference in July which was our highest ever attendance with over 690 participants! 2021 also saw the introduction of the very successful Insight Series which saw 9 seminars throughout the year in conjunction with CA ANZ to build academic and industry linkages.
The AFAANZ Board would like to thank the following members of AFAANZ who have contributed to the success of the following programs:
Conference Technical Committee:
Yuyu Zhang, Shan Zhou, Soon-Yeow Phang, Lily Chen, Le (Laura) Luo, Umesh Sharma, Jing Yu, Chelsea Liu, Phil Gharghori, Peter Verhoeven, Giulia Leoni, Grant Samkin, Prabhu Sivabalan, Stijn Masschelein, Anna Bedford, Frank Zhang, Nigar Sultana, Paul de Lange, Meredith Tharapos, Qingbo Yuan, Louise Lu, Bobae Choi, Jeff Coulton, Christine Helliar, Bikram Chatterjee and Grantley Taylor
Conference Speakers and Panellists:
Gary Monroe, Phil Stocken, Amanda White, Baljit Sidhu, Beatriz Garcia Osma, Shailan Patel, Julia Wu, Wendy YingYing Chang, Tricia Andrews, David Hay, Noel Harding, Millie Chang, Nigar Sultana, Amanda White, Jing Yu and Thu Phuong Truong.
Doctoral Symposium Faculty:
Gary Monroe, Vic Naiker, Millicent Chang, Bryan Howieson, Meredith Tharapos, Maria Dyball, David Smith, Phil Stocken, Mark Wilson, Sue Wright, Robert Faff and Tom Smith.
Research Grant Assessment Panel:
Hue Hwa Au Yong, Bobae Choi, Lee Smales, Umesh Sharma, Nigar Sultana, Zhaohua Li, Meiting Lu, Borhan Bhuiyan, Basil Phillip Tucker, Doowon Lee, Vitali Alexeev, Thu Phuong Truong, Maria Dyball, Searat Ali and Hafez Abdo.
Insight Series Presenters:
Gary Monroe, Nives Botica-Redmayne, Peter Rupp, Karen Shires, Craig Fisher, Ann Tarca, Rafal Markowski, Jillian Bullock, Chris Chapman, Garry Carnegie, Corinne Cortese, Victoria Clout, Meredith Tharapos and Brendan O'Connell.
Education Forum:
Ho-Zheng Tiong, Amy Tung, Nicky Bull, Kayur Patel, Prosper Musukuma, Vaish Venkatesean, Karina Hudda, Grainne Oates, Elizabeth Morton, Jason Potts, Nikki Schönfeldt and Tricia Andrews.
We congratulate Phuong Vu from UWA and Ling Qin from the UNSW, they will represent AFAANZ at the AAA and EAA Doctoral Colloquium respectively.
We are now accepting Papers for the 2022 AFAANZ Conference which will be in Melbourne during the week beginning 3 July, 2022. We are working towards creating a hybrid event for those who cannot make it in person to our first in-person conference since 2019. The due date to submit is Tuesday, February 8, 2022. A Call for Papers is included in this Newsletter.
We encourage you to renew your membership for 2022. Institutional Members will be contacted early February 2022.
Have a safe and festive break and best wishes for the New Year
Andrew Jackson & Tom Scott AFAANZ Presidents
AFAANZ Conference
3-5 July 2022
Call for Papers
AFAANZ is devoted to a broad spectrum of accounting and finance research and we welcome innovative research approaches as well as those that are well established. Papers are invited in the broad areas of accounting, finance, auditing, corporate governance, accounting information systems, accounting education, ethics, corporate social responsibility, tax and related fields. There are best paper prizes in all categories and outstanding reviewer awards. All papers at this year’s conference will be subject to blind peer review. AFAANZ encourages new and developing researchers to attend the conference. This year we will again extend a discount to first time AFAANZ conference attendees and full-time higher degree research students.
AFAANZ is currently finalising the conference format (face-to-face, online or a hybrid of these approaches), but if it is held face-to-face or in hybrid form, it will be held in the Crown, Melbourne. The two plenary speakers at the conference will be:
- Professor Wai Fong Chua, Professor of Accounting, The University of Sydney
- Professor Stephen Penman, George O. May Professor of Financial Accounting, Columbia Business School (Yuji Ijiri memorial lecture)
Special issue
This year, the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (JIFMIM) will hold concurrent sessions at the conference and papers can be later submitted to their special issue, addressing the topics of Environmental Social and Governance, Green Finance and Investment, Corporate Governance, Exchange Rates and Asset Prices. The papers eligible for consideration at JIFMIM must have a clear international dimension and ideally test economic theory in an international setting. Note that JIFMIM no longer publishes papers on US markets or other single country studies, which take a domestic focus, or papers that investigate commodity, herding, and housing market impacts and interactions. Similarly, for the purposes of this special issue, papers on cryptocurrencies will not be considered.
Guidelines for Submission
Further details regarding the submission of papers will be made available on the AFAANZ conference website at https://www.afaanz.org/conference . Papers can be submitted at https://www.openconf.org/afaanz2022/openconf.php from the start of December 2021.
Papers will only be considered if at least one author is an individual member of AFAANZ, with members enjoying a reduced registration fee for the conference. To become a member of AFAANZ please go to https://www.afaanz.org/membership. Alternatively, a $50 submission fee can be paid at https://www.afaanz.org/conference and the balance paid upon conference registration.
Submission Date
Papers must be submitted by Monday, 7 February 2022, 5pm Australian Eastern Daylight Standard Time. Late submissions will NOT be accepted.
Notification
Email notification of the outcome and review feedback of submissions is expected to be sent to the submitting author in April 2022.
Enquiries
Any enquiries regarding the submission process for papers can be directed to:
Nicola Beatson and Sumit Lodhia at chair@afaanz.org
Climate change is increasingly recognised as a major source of risk to businesses and the economies in which they operate. In turn, the investment community needs information about how corporations anticipate and respond to climate change risk.
Internationally, policymakers have responded with the recent establishment of the International Sustainability Standards Board by the IFRS Foundation. In New Zealand, the XRB is developing disclosure standards in response to the Government’s plan to implement mandatory reporting on climate risks, while in Australia, the AASB has issued a proposed climate change standards framework for discussion.
The purpose of this Insight Session is to inform and stimulate discussion on the developments in the regulation, preparation and use of disclosures about the management of financial risk of climate change. This insights session provides you with the opportunity to hear from experts engaged in climate change risk reporting, through policymaking, the preparation and use of climate change disclosures, and research.
The insight session will feature a keynote address by Professor Naomi Soderstrom, University of Melbourne, and two panel sessions:
- Policymakers’ perspectives on the challenges of reporting on climate change risk
- Users’ and Preparers’ perspectives on disclosures on climate change risk
Click HERE to register
All previous Insight Series events can be viewed by going to the Insight Series webpage.
What is MYOB Advanced Business? Everything you need to know
For large and growing businesses across Australia and New Zealand, MYOB Advanced Business offers a comprehensive cloud-based platform for resource planning, inventory management and so much more.
This latest blog from MYOB covers what and who is this cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is for, it’s key features & benefits, and what results can a business expect from using it.
Read all the key details here: www.myob.com/au/blog/what-is-myob-advanced-business/
AFAANZ congratulates Robert Faff and Tom Smith who were appointed as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in November this year. The Academy elects the most distinguished social scientists in Australia as Fellows, and these new Fellows will join the ranks of over 700 of Australia’s leading researchers and professionals across the social science disciplines.
AccountingPod is excited to announce that it’s now a Xero Certified Integration.
This means AccountingPod meets and maintains high standards of data privacy and security processes for users.
AccountingPod’s technology focus is innovation in accounting education! We are looking forward to continuing to assist AFAANZ educators in all of their accounting subjects with auto-marked learning experiences and smart tools for teaching, learning and assessments. Contact: accountingpod.com and watch a short video at https://vimeo.com/653019482
A teaching benchmark reference tool for staff and students teaching financial reporting, auditing, financial statement analysis, corporate finance and investment subjects.
CA ANZ and the University sector have formed a partnership to conduct research to produce an annual benchmark report of the normal, high, and low values of the key ratios that measure a company's performance and overall financial position that can be used to evaluate growth and margins, working capital management, capital structure and liquidity and overall performance. The report is available here Benchmark reports (scroll to bottom and download the report ). This report will be produced on an annual basis and feedback in regard to the research for future editions can be provided to Professor Matt Pinnuck (mpinnuck@unimelb.edu.au) and Dr Mark Wallis (m.wallis@business.uq.edu.au)
Calls for Papers
Emerging Scholars: Accounting History fully supports emerging scholars and each Accounting History International Conference runs an emerging scholars colloquium. The next AHIESC will be held in Portsmouth on 7 September 2022. Proposals are due by 1 March 2022. Click HERE to download the Call for Research Proposals.
InSPiR2eS Global Pitching Research Competition (IGPRC)
Building on the immense success & experience in Australia (University of Queensland 2015–2019) and South Asia (Pakistan 2017–18 and Sri Lanka 2021), we are pleased to announce the official launch of a Pitching Research competition in the global arena under the brand name of “InSPiR2eS Global Pitching Research Competition (IGPRC)”.
Prizes: With generous support across a wide variety of sponsors, most notably our Platinum sponsors, Bond University and Elsevier; IGPRC has a prize pool of $AUD40,000, including $AUD 10,000 for the overall competition winner.
Key dates: The deadline for final submission of entries is 28 February 2022. The “gala” online Grand Final will be held in May 2022.
IGPRC Country Co-ordinators: Australia; Bangladesh; Belgium; Brazil; China; Ghana; India; Indonesia; Ireland; Japan; Kenya; Malaysia; New Zealand; Pakistan; Poland; Romania; Singapore; Sri Lanka; UK; Vietnam. We hope to also soon have co-ordinators for France, Portugal, Spain. If you want to become a country co-ordinator, please contact Robert Faff ASAP: rfaff@bond.edu.au
Interested to know more about the competition: What, Why, How, Who, & When?
Refer to Section 6 of V2 of the SSRN paper titled: “Pitching Research®… evolution into a Programmatic Framework … self-reflection and the story so far” (https://ssrn.com/abstract=3917252).
Watch information video: https://bit.ly/3zHCM6v
Access information PPTs: https://bit.ly/3EPdtDz
After watching the IGPRC information video, attend one online Q&A information session:
APIRA 2022 INTERDISCIPLINARY ACCOUNTING RESEARCH WEBINARS
Continuing on from 2021, the 2022 AAAJ’s APIRA thought leadership webinars will offer major interdisciplinary accounting research presentations and panel forums. They will be 90 minute webinars on three occasions through 2022. Each live session will also be recorded and available to registrants on the APIRA webpage. February 16th 2022 Accounting in a Covid-World Presenters and Panel: Assoc Prof Giulia Leoni (Italy) Prof Kathryn Haynes (UK) Prof Laurence Ferry (UK) June 8th 2022 The Accountability Research Agenda Presenters and Panel: Prof Enrico Bracci (Italy) Prof Warren Maroun (South Africa) Prof Elena Giovannoni (UK)
October 12th, 2022 Accounting, auditing, and digital transformation: Implications and critical issues Presenters and Panel: Prof Indrit Troshani (Australia) Prof Giuseppe Grossi (Norway) Prof Jodie Moll (Australia)
Please spread the word to colleagues and doctoral students.
You can register now for the first APIRA 2021 event Feb 16, on the APIRA webpage: https://apira.onlive.events/
CALL FOR PAPERS and EXEMPLARS
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 2022 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ISAIS)
July 6-8, 2022 - Call for Papers and Registration
The Centre for Accounting and Industry Partnerships, Department of Accounting, University of Melbourne, Australia is pleased to announce the tenth International Symposium on Accounting Information Systems (ISAIS). ISAIS is rotated annually between the USA (Michigan State University), Europe (Hasselt University, Belgium) and Australia (University of Melbourne).
ISAIS 2022 will be online/virtual for all participants. Additionally, for those that can attend in person and network with colleagues, a meeting room will be available in the Faculty of Business and Economics Building at the University of Melbourne for all sessions. For all information, click HERE
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
For our New Zealand members, you can purchase discounted movie tickets for Event and Rialto Cinemas. Click here for further details.
AFAANZ gratefully acknowledges our sponsors
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