AFAANZ PRESIDENTS' MESSAGE
At AFAANZ, we are excited about 2022!! We trust you have had a relaxing and enjoyable festive season and we look forward to catching up with you at one of our events during 2022!
We are now accepting Papers for the 2022 AFAANZ Conference which will be in Melbourne from July 3 to July 5, 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 7, 2022. A Call for Papers is included in this Newsletter.
We encourage you to renew your membership for 2022, if you haven't received your renewal invoice in your email, please contact info@afaanz.org. Institutional Members will be contacted late January.
Our Insight Series, co-sponsored by CAANZ, continues in 2022. We begin with the Financial Reporting SIG event "Climate Change and Financial Reporting" which will be held on Wednesday 16 February 2022.
Best wishes for 2022!
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.
An update on our previous event COVID-19 and accounting education in Australia: What the future holds, click HERE to download a paper entitled Accounting 101: redefining accounting for tomorrow by Professor Garry Carnegie published in Accounting Education
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Call for Nominations on the AFAANZ Board
There will be a vacancy on the AFAANZ Board for the 2022 - 2024 period. Nominations must be received by 5pm AEST, Friday, 25th February 2022. View more information and the nomination form HERE.
AFAANZ Doctoral Education Network (AFDEN)
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 following are the current courses that are on offer in 2022. Given the travel difficulties associated with COVID19, many of the courses are now offered online or in hybrid mode. Please reach out to the course convenors if you wish to enrol in the courses. Any questions about AFDEN can be directed to the AFDEN co-directors at afden@afaanz.org.
- Finance Theory
- Empirical Finance
- Research Methodologies
- Research Process "Lite"
All course details and dates are available on the AFDEN webpage Note that the Research Process "Lite" course begins on 25th January so please contact Robert Faff immediately if you wish to enroll.
AFAANZ AWARDS
AFAANZ - Best PhD Award
The Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand seeks to advance accounting and finance research by recognising and rewarding outstanding work of early career researchers. The Best PhD Award is being awarded each year to recognise the student of an outstanding accounting/finance PhD completed during the previous calendar year. For more details, click here. Nominations close on 31st March 2022.
CAAA Annual Conference 2022 The Role of Accounting and Accountants in Future Proofing Organizations
Our world has drastically changed over the past few years, and it is continuing to change. Not only has the pandemic reshaped numerous norms, but traditional drivers of change (e.g., technology, regulatory, environment, financial) also consistently continue to impact the business world. In a world undergoing massive societal changes, enterprises are scrambling to respond and remain sustainable, having to rethink their business models, value chains and value propositions. These responses can be viewed as attempts by enterprises to future proofing themselves against a variety of different futures. In this context we ask, “What is the Role of Accounting and Accountants in Future Proofing Organizations?''
The CAAA welcomes original papers on all areas of research including financial and management accounting, financial reporting and communication, assurance, tax, accounting history, and public sector accounting, and from the full range of paradigms and methodologies.
Call for research and education submissions with an extended submission deadline: January 25, 2022. Conference dates: June 9 to 11, 2022, Saskatoon
CAAA Annual Conference 2022 Call for Papers
Qualitative Methods Symposium Call for Papers
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.
CPA Australia appoints new Australian Accounting Review editors-in-chief
CPA Australia has appointed Professor Sue Wright and Professor Yaowen Shan as joint editors-in-chief of our academic journal, Australian Accounting Review.
Professor Wright is Head of Accounting at the University of Technology Sydney. She is a fellow and former president and treasurer of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ), which represents academics and others interested in higher education in accounting and finance. She also holds memberships with the European Accounting Association and the Omicron Delta Epsilon International Honor Society in Economics. Wright is an associate editor / board member of Abacus, Accounting Research Journal and Meditari.
Professor Shan from the University of Technology Sydney is a professional accountant and current director and treasurer of the AFAANZ board. He is also an associate editor at two other academic publications: the Australian Journal of Management and Accounting and Finance. Professors Wright and Shan take over the reins from outgoing editors-in-chief Associate Professor Bryan Howieson FCPA (University of Adelaide) and Professor Michael Bradbury FCA (Massey University, NZ).
CPA Australia Executive Advisor Education, Emeritus Professor Kim Watty, said: “CPA Australia thanks Associate Professor Howieson and Professor Bradbury for their outstanding contributions over the past three years. We look forward to working with Professors Wright and Shan to continue producing a high quality, academic journal providing critical analysis of developments in accounting, business and finance.”
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 Journal of Higher Education and Policy Management is having a special issue on “Beyond equity and inclusion policy – student achievement at and after university”. This will explore how different groups of students perform at university and the implications for higher education policy and practice. Please click here for the Call for Abstracts. The closing date for Abstracts is 31st March 2022.
We are pleased to announce the fourth Accounting Workshop on Experiments (AWE) to be held virtually through Zoom on 29 April 2022. AWE seeks to promote and develop accounting research using experiment. AWE seeks interesting papers that employ experiments to investigate accounting questions, broadly defined. Consistent with the developmental focus of AWE, early-stage papers are particularly encouraged. Submission deadline (full paper & doctoral forum): 1 March 2022. For all details, click HERE
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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