| On behalf of the AFAANZ board, we would like to wish everyone the best as 2022 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. |
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Highlights of 2022 include the return to an in-person conference which we welcomed back 280 members in-person and 120 online! 2022 also saw the continuation of the Insight Series which saw 570 members register across 9 seminars throughout the year. We thank CA ANZ and our SIGs for their sessions building academic and industry linkages.
The AFAANZ Board would like to thank all our members of AFAANZ who have contributed to the success of the following programs: - Conference Technical Committee
- Doctoral Symposium Faculty
- Research Grant Assessment Panel
- Insight Series Presenters
- Education Forum
We congratulate Leonie Koenig from RMIT University and Yuki Guo from Monash University, they will represent AFAANZ at the AAA and EAA Doctoral Colloquium respectively.
We are now accepting Papers for the 2023 AFAANZ Conference which will be on the Gold Coast during the week beginning 3 July, 2023. The due date to submit is Wednesday, February 8, 2022. A Call for Papers is included below in this Newsletter.
We encourage you to renew your membership for 2023. Please note that the A&F Journal is no longer available in hard copy print beginning in 2023 (but you will be able to order hard copies directly through Wiley). Any members who are in this category in 2022 will have their membership automatically converted into the non-print category.
There is also a new Tax SIG which will begin in 2023. You can register for membership through your account now. If you ever have any queries with your membership, please contact info@afaanz.org Institutional Members will be contacted early February 2023.
Have a safe and festive break and best wishes for the New Year Nicola Beatson & Andrew Jackson AFAANZ Presidents |
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AFAANZ Conference
2 - 4 July 2023 at The Star on the Gold Coast, Queensland
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 2023 will be held face-to-face at the Star Gold Coast. The two plenary speakers at the conference will be: Professor Jennifer Joe, Professor of Accounting, University of Delaware. Professor Henk Berkman, Professor of Finance, University of Auckland. 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 now be submitted at https://www.openconf.org/afaanz2023/openconf.php .
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 Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 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 2023. Enquiries Any enquiries regarding the submission process for papers can be directed to: Sumit Lodhia and David Bond at chair@afaanz.org |
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Based on the Insight Series event “COVID-19 and Accounting Education”, four articles appear in a Special Issue of Accounting education. You can view the articles HERE
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With the journal’s move to online only publication in 2023, the MD-POD program gives AFAANZ members who still wish to receive hard copies the ability to order a printed volume subscription at a heavily discounted rate. How? - Members navigate to Sheridan’s webstore and click through to Accounting & Finance: https://ondemand.sheridan.com/collections/wiley-accounting-finance
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Members select “Print subscription” option, enter their region and quantity, then select add to cart. The full price will still be shown.
- Members proceed to check out and enter the following discount code in the relevant field: 2TYRF9KMM8DH
- The discount will be applied and members can then enter their preferred mailing address and process the payment as normal.
Cost? The cost for an entire printed volume is as follows: USA $121.47, UK $100.82, EUR $113.54 and ROW $166.16
Considerations?
- The discount code is valid until 31 Jan 2024
- The member discount is only available on purchases of the full volume. Single issue purchases are subject to full price
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The AFAANZ Doctoral Education Network (AFDEN) aims to encourage and help enable the broad offering of a rich suite of doctoral-level subjects suitable for accounting and finance students in their first year of study, leading up to confirmation. The first subject for 2023 is now open for registration: Research Process "Lite" - presented by Professor Robert Faff
Students are expected to begin their active study in the course on 2nd January 2023 and it concludes on 26th April 2023. Research Process comprises completion of an initial (self-paced) online Bond Micro-credential Course, followed by 5 separate 2-hour classes. All details are available HERE. |
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AFAANZ Members Areas of Expertise
To enable better collaboration between AFAANZ Members and our main sponsors – Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and CPA Australia – we are collecting information around areas of expertise of our members. The member portal has been updated to allow for selection into topic areas. Should our sponsors require expertise in a certain area, AFAANZ will be able to provide connections to provide opportunities for engagement.
To enter this information, enter your AFAANZ member portal and click on the Additional Profile Information tab and select the Personal Information tab. Click on the edit/create button and the areas of expertise multiple check-box topics will appear along with an areas of interest text box to enter your information. Email info@afaanz.org if you have any questions.
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At the RMIT CPA Australia Accounting Educators’ Conference, XingDong Yan (AccountingPod) presented alongside Dr Samuel Cheung (Deakin University) and Dr Wei Shi (Deakin University) on the topic of “Empower the future eco-warriors, Accountants for SMBs, SDGs in accounting assessments”. It was a fantastic discussion with the audience in the room. It was a great showcase of how SMBs in the experience industry are leading the conversation in carbon neutrality. AccountingPod is excited about embedding ESG in our assessment cases and datasets. Please feel free to get in touch with us. https://accountingpod.com/
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The IFRS Foundation’s International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has published its 2023 dates for hosting in-person and remote visits from university student groups studying IFRS Accounting Standards.
These visits are free of charge and consist of a two-hour session with an IASB member and technical staff, on the structure of the IFRS Foundation, the IASB’s work, current projects and technical matters. The sessions are interactive and often involve multiple universities, so students can engage with and hear the perspectives of other students from around the world. The 2023 dates, and information on how to register for a visit, can be found here. |
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Call for Papers Special Issue on Qualitative Research with practical relevance and impact in Accounting
The due date for submissions for this special issue is 1 May 2023. All details are available HERE The guest editors are Special Issue on Reporting and Assurance of Climate-related and Other Non-financial Information
The due date for submissions for this special issue is 1 August 2023. All details are available HERE The guest editors are |
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Upcoming special sections of the British Accounting Review (BAR) - Fintech (deadline: 31 December 2022)
- Climate and green finance (deadline: 31 December 2022)
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New Perspectives on Financial Distress and Corporate Risk Management (deadline: 31 Jan 2023)
- Big Data in Accounting and Finance (deadline: 31 Jan 2023)
- What do we know about sustainability reporting assurance quality? (deadline: 31 Jan 2023)
- Corporate Carbon Accounting and Management for Green Transition toward Carbon Neutrality (deadline: 20 Feb 2023)
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The Role of Legal, Political, and Regulatory Institutions in Influencing Accounting and Financial Outcomes (deadline: 31 March 2023)
- Performance Measurement, Sustainability and Governance in the Healthcare Sector, (deadline: 31 May 2023)
All details are available HERE |
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Meditari Accountancy Research Accounting as technical, social and moral practice for shaping a better world
This Special Issue is concerned with accounting as a combined technical, social and moral practice with an overarching concern for shaping a better world from tomorrow, including by means of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other key mechanism. This special issue aims to facilitate the focus of minds around the effects of accounting, whether intended or unintended; accounting may have narrow premises or roles or potentially concerning consequences for the world we pass on to our children and future generations.
The last date for submission of papers for consideration for publication in this Meditari Accountancy Research Special is 15 February 2023. All details are available HERE |
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The Deakin Business School in partnership with La Trobe University, Macquarie University, RMIT University, UNISA and Victoria University of Wellington invites academics and PhD students to submit papers to be considered for presentation at the 13th Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference and PhD symposium (FMCG2023). The conference and PhD Symposium will be held virtually. There is no registration fee. Please visit HERE for more information.
The submission deadline is 15 January 2023. Please submit your paper at fmcg2023@deakin.edu.au Five Conference Best Paper awards ($500 each) - One best paper award will be presented under each of the following categories
- Accounting Information/ Disclosure Practices/Earnings Quality/Audit Fees
- Asset Pricing/Financial Markets/Market Microstructure/Funds Management
- Banking/Behavioural Finance/Corporate Finance/Financial Economics
- Corporate Governance/Social Responsibility
- Emerging Markets
Five best research paper awards ($500 each) at the PhD Symposium. - One best paper award will be presented under each of the following categories
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Accounting Information/ Disclosure Practices/Earnings Quality/Audit Fees
- Asset Pricing/Financial Markets/Market Microstructure/Funds Management
- Banking/Behavioural Finance/Corporate Finance/Financial Economics
- Corporate Governance/Social Responsibility
- Emerging Markets
ELIGIBILITY of Award – PhD Symposium Only the papers written by PhD students (sole authorship) will be considered for the PhD symposium award. SPECIAL CONFERENCE ISSUES
Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (Elsevier’s Journal) will run a special conference issue focusing on Asia Pacific markets, and presenters at the conference are invited to consider submitting their papers for publication. |
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and sustainability accounting: Opportunities and Challenges for public, non-governmental and hybrid sector organisations Special issue call for papers from Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting, and Financial Management
What is this special issue about?
The adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations in 2015 has been a well-received and globally accepted iteration of the sustainable development agenda (Abhayawansa et al., 2021; Adams et al., 2020; Bebbington and Unerman, 2018). With 17 holistic goals and 169 targets, the SDG agenda aspires to stimulate action in areas that are of critical importance for humanity and the planet including hunger, poverty, inequality, health and well-being, clean energy and quality education (United Nations, 2015). Given the critical importance of SDGs, this initiative has drawn considerable attention in the policy debate and research. A number of conceptual studies have set the agenda and directions for advancing and achieving SDGs and the role of accounting and finance therein. However, little is known about how organisations, especially in the public, non-governmental and hybrid sectors are addressing and implementing the SDG goals and targets, and account for sustainability performance
All details are available HERE Closes: March 31, 2023 |
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AFAANZ gratefully acknowledges our sponsors |
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