Call for Papers

Please see below a list of Call for Papers

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Hosted by Monash Business School’s Department of Accounting, Monforma is a biennial conference that facilitates the free exchange of ideas amongst academics and promotes and initiates research opportunities in management accounting.

This signature event attracts management accounting academics from all major Australian universities, and many from overseas.

With outstanding networking opportunities, its focused technical program allows participants to present and receive feedback on their work in a constructive environment. Participants benefit from diverse presentations, which span multiple research paradigms and methods.

Monforma's organisers are proud to provide the opportunity for promising early career researchers to present their research; a tradition we intend to continue.  For all details and registration, click HERE

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Meditari Accountancy Research Conference 2025

4-5 September 2025, Pisa, Italy (University of Pisa).

Plenary speakers: John Dumay and Sumit Lodhia

Submission deadline: 10 May 2025 emailed to meditaripisa2025@ec.unipi.it

Further information:  https://meditaripisa2025.ec.unipi.it/  

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The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board: Insights for developing auditing standards fit for purpose

Submission window: 1 July to 31 October 2024.  For more information, please visit the call for papers on the journal’s website HERE

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The International Sustainability Standards Board: Evaluating and informing work efforts in the interest of sustainable development

Submission window: 1 July to 31 October 2024. For more information, please visit the call for papers on the journal’s website ERE

 

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Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics

Mid-Year Symposium, Wednesday 9^th of July 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2025 JCAE Mid-Year Symposium is organized by the University of Queensland Business School and will be held at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, on Wednesday, 09 July 2025 (immediately after AFAANZ). The symposium provides a platform for accounting, economics, and corporate governance academics, especially from Australia, New Zealand, and Asia, to present cutting-edge research findings. 

Key-note Speaker: Professor Steven Cahan

Steven Cahan is a Professor of Financial Accounting at the University of Auckland Business School. His research interests are in the areas of auditing, financial reporting, and ESG. He has published over 75 academic research articles in journals including The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Accounting Horizons. His paper on social norms and activism by institutional investors received the Peter Brownell Manuscript Award from the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) in 2022. Steven is currently an Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics and is a past Editor in Chief of Accounting & Finance and the Pacific Accounting Review. He currently serves on 11 Editorial Boards, including the European Accounting Review, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Australian Journal of Management, Journal of International Accounting Research, and Accounting and Business Research. Steven is one of 15 Life Members of AFAANZ and is a former President of that organization. Steven is a Chartered Accountant and is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand. Steven received Research Excellence Awards from the University of Auckland Business School in 2005, 2010, 2016, and 2022.

Plenary Papers

The Mid-Year Symposium features 4–5 plenary papers. Each presentation will be followed by a discussion by a discussant and Q&A from the audience. Papers accepted for plenary presentations will be considered for publication in JCAE, subject to further review and editorial approval.

Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format to jcae@uq.edu.au (1x blind copy & 1x with author details) with the subject of the email being “JCAE Mid-Year 2025”. Manuscripts previously published or currently under review by other publications must not be submitted. All submissions are subject to a blind review process. A cash prize of $500 each will be provided for (i) the best plenary paper that is presented at the conference and (ii) the best discussion of a plenary paper at the conference.

In your email, please state that the paper is for presentation at the 2025 Mid-year symposium. Submissions must be received no later than March 14, 2025. Authors can expect to be notified of the review outcome by May 16, 2025.

About the Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics

The Journal is dedicated to publishing high-quality manuscripts that rigorously apply economics and legal theory to accounting/auditing with an emphasis on empirical research. The citation rate for the journal has seen a steady increase in the last few years. The journal publishes papers in the following major areas as related to accounting and auditing issues: financial contracts, corporate governance, capital markets, financial institutions and economics of organizations.

Organising Committee:

Assoc. Prof. Muhammad Nadeem

Dr. Peter (Truc) Do

Dr. Ankit Jain

Dr. Mia Han

Contact email: jcae@uq.edu.au

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 Call for Papers

Special Issue on Household Finance and Socioeconomic Development

We invite submissions for a special issue in Emerging Markets Review that explores the multifaceted roles and implications of household finance. The issue will focus on examining relationships: (a) within households, (b) between households, (c) between households and financial institutions, and (d) between household finance and its influence on socioeconomic development.

For more information, please visit https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/289573/household-finance-and-socioeconomic-development  

Executive Guest Editor:  A/Prof Lyla Zhang, Department of Economics, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Email: lyla.zhang@mq.edu.au

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Household finance and socioeconomic development
• Financial inclusion and social policy
• Remuneration practices at financial institutions
• Household finance and asset allocation
• Household financial wellbeing and quality of life, happiness, and health
• Household finance and the environment
• Demographic change and household finance

 Open for submissions: July 7, 2024, deadline: November 30, 2024

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We are excited to welcome accounting academics to the 23rd Australasian Centre for Social & Environmental Accounting Research (A-CSEAR) conference to be held at te Whare Wānanga ō Waitaha the University of Canterbury (UC) in Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand, on December 5-6, 2024. Full details of the conference can be found on the conference website here. Registration is now open! Please head to our registration page to secure your place at the A-CSEAR conference.

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8 - 9 April 2025

Join prominent tax researchers, policymakers, regulators, and administrators from Australia and across the globe at our 2025 conference ‘Tax Administration: Getting It Right’ and explore together contemporary issues in administering tax systems. Topics include digitalisation, particularly AI, and the future of tax administration and the tax profession, the latest innovations in service delivery and tax compliance and the increasing role tax is playing in sustainability (ESG) including tax administration’s role in protecting the vulnerable (UN Sustainability Development Goal 10). 

To view all details on registration and paper submission, click HERE.   Paper submissions close on 26 October 2024.

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2025 UTS AUSTRALIAN SUMMER ACCOUNTING CONFERENCE

Call for Papers
The 27th annual UTS Australian Summer Accounting Conference will be held at the University of Technology Sydney Business School on 6 - 7 February 2025. The 2025 UTS Summer Accounting Conference will comprise a panel session of leading standard setters and seven paper presentations.
The panel session will focus on the rapid developments occurring in sustainability reporting. Each paper presentation will be followed by an invited discussant. The conference regularly attracts leading accounting researchers from around the world, and presenters include faculty from leading institutions in North America, Europe and Asia. The Accounting Discipline Group at UTS is committed to ensuring that the Australian Summer Accounting Conference continues as the premier event of its type in the Australasian region.  
Those interested in presenting a paper are encouraged to submit their work as soon as possible, but no later than Friday, 1 November 2024. Authors of selected papers will be advised no later than Friday, 15 November 2024. Papers are invited in any area of accounting research, and research method. Early submissions are encouraged.  

For all details, click HERE

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The Discipline of Accounting, Governance and Regulation at the University of Sydney Business School is proud to present a sustainability assurance research workshop on 6 February 2025.

This workshop is jointly organized by the University of Sydney, Deakin University, the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AUASB) and the Accounting & Finance Journal. The workshop will be held in a hybrid form with in-person attendance preferred.

Mandatory reporting and assurance of climate-related financial information commences for certain entities on 1 January 2025. The AUASB is responsible for setting the assurance requirements by:

• developing assurance standards in line with the IAASB’s ISSA 5000 General Requirements for Sustainability Assurance Engagements
• issuing standards or guidance under the local sustainability reporting framework and
• setting a pathway for phasing in assurance requirements over time.

The workshop aims to inform the AUASB on matters relevant to their responsibilities including current assurance practices.

All accepted papers will receive feedback from the AUASB staff at the workshop. Following the workshop, accepted papers will be invited to contribute to an AUASB Research Report and to be submitted to a special issue of the Accounting & Finance (with Professor Roger Simnett and Associate Professor Shan Zhou as the guest editors) for consideration of publication, subject to a successful review process.

If you are conducting research that aligns with the workshop’s focus and objectives, we encourage you to submit an expression of interest by 30 September 2024.

Please submit an extended abstract of your research and its implications for the AUASB (up to one-page) to https://forms-business.sydney.edu.au/sarw/eoi. Outcomes will be notified by mid-October 2024.

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The 22nd Annual ANCAAR Audit Research Forum will be held in-person at the Australian National University on 6-7 December 2024 (Friday-Saturday). The forum will focus on emergent issues and new research in auditing, attestation and assurance.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

To have your current audit-related research considered for presentation at the Forum, you need to submit an extended abstract only at this stage (but full papers are acceptable).

Submissions must be sent as email attachments to ancaar@anu.edu.au (only) and must be received by Friday 27 September 2024 to be considered.

Preference will be given to papers that have not previously been presented at a conference or submitted to a journal (excluding papers that have been substantially changed subsequent to its prior presentation). Your submission email should include a statement in this regard. As in previous years, we strongly encourage submissions from PhD candidates and Early Career Researchers.

Outcomes will be notified by 18 October. When deciding to submit an extended abstract, please note that full versions of accepted papers must be provided by 15 November.

INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE FORUM

Attendance at the Forum is by invitation only. You will receive a separate invitation nearer to the event date.

FURTHER INFORMATION

General information on the ANCAAR Audit Research Forum is available here.

If you have any questions about paper submission or the Forum, please email us at ancaar@anu.edu.au.

2024 ANCAAR Audit Research Forum Coordinators: Dr Eunice Khoo and Dr Madhukar Singh

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Accounting Case Competition 2024 for University Students Accounting for Social Impact Research Group (ASIRG)

ASIRG is hosting the Accounting Case Competition for university students once again. Here is the link to the competition webpage.

For the competition, we have developed the case problem in such a way that students are required to combine accounting and broader business knowledge to address the issues in the case.  We would like to request you to encourage your students to participate in this event. Please feel free to promote the event via your courses. 

This is an event of the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Business School. It was originally designed for university students from New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. However, over time, the event has attracted global participation, including university students from the UK, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Bangladesh, and Oman, among other countries.   

If you have any queries, please forward them to accounting.socialimpact@aut.ac.nz.

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Main conference: June 26-27, 2025
Emerging Scholars Colloquium - ESC: June 25, 2025
Deadline for submission of full papers (main conference and ESC): February 28, 2025
Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2025
Conference venue: Prama Sanur Beach Hotel, Bali, Indonesia.

The Accounting and Accountability in Emerging Economies* (AAEE) Conference will provide a high-profile forum for academics, policy makers, research students and other key stakeholders to discuss issues relating to, and deepening and broadening knowledge of, the role accounting and accountability in emerging economies; and to build and consolidate a network of active institutions, scholars and policy makers involved in accounting, accountability and global development research. This year’s theme is “Sustainable Development and Accountability in Emerging Economies.”  Download the Call for Paper document HERE

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Upcoming special sections of the British Accounting Review (BAR)

• The Role of Supply Chain in Accounting and Finance Research
• New developments in Alternative Investments and Alternative Corporate Finance

All details are available HERE

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Special Issues                        

Microfoundations of accountability closes on 30 April 2025. For further details, click HERE

 

 

Accounting for Inequalities

In our contemporary world, inequalities remain deeply entrenched across various spheres of life. The economic disparity between the richest and poorest has widened significantly, with a growing concentration of wealth in the hands of a few (Tweedie and Hazelton, 2019). Between 1995 and 2021, as reported by Chancel et al. (2022), the top 1% of population captured 38% of the global increment in wealth, while the bottom 50% claimed just 2%. The gender pay gap persists, with only minimal progress in 2024, marked by a mere 0.3% improvement (World Economic Forum, 2023). Racial and ethnic minorities continue to face systemic discrimination in access to resources, education, and healthcare (Agyemang et al., 2024; Annisette and Prasad, 2017; Munkuli et al., 2024). The climate crisis also exacerbates inequalities (Bigoni and Mohammed, 2023), with those in the Global South disproportionately affected while having limited protection from its devastating impacts (Oxfam International, 2023). 

As a politically embedded discursive practice, accounting has perpetuated inequalities in our world. Historically, accounting, through its calculative neutrality, has supported systems of oppression, including slavery (Jensen et al., 2021), colonisation (Norris et al., 2022), and genocide (Funnell, 1998; Funnell et al., 2022). Under neoliberal regimes, accounting legitimises policies prioritising market efficiency and shareholder value, often at the expense of social justice (Bigoni and Awais, 2024; Nikidehaghani et al., 2021). By obscuring the human costs and demands behind key performance indicators (KPI) or metrics, accounting practices rather contribute to the maintenance of unequal power structures, reinforcing wealth disparities and fostering the exploitation of marginalised groups (Carnegie et al., 2021a; Hammond et al., 2017; Lehman et al., 2018; Nikidehaghani and Cortese, 2023). For instance, accounting rationalises policies related to tax regimes (Sikka, 2015) and welfare programs (Nikidehaghani, 2023; Walker, 2008), often reinforcing systemic inequalities. Further, as automated systems streamline public service delivery, they usually rely on accounting-driven KPIs or metrics prioritising fiscal targets over equity, exacerbating inequalities for marginalised groups (Bracci, 2022; Nikidehaghani et al., 2023).

Yet, just as accounting has contributed to creating these problems, it also holds the potential to become part of the solution, contribute to equitable and sustainable development, and shape a better world (Carnegie et al., 2021b; Carnegie et al., 2024; Pupovac and Nikidehaghani, 2024). This Special Issue of AAAJ seeks to open new discussions and revisit earlier dialogues about the intersection of accounting, accountability and inequality. As the world faces mounting social, environmental, and economic challenges, it is timely to reconsider and reassess the role accounting plays—not just as an apparently neutral calculative practice but as an instrument for both perpetuating inequalities and promoting equity and justice. We invite scholars holding concerns about inequality, or envisaging proposals for reducing inequality, to examine how accounting has been involved in creating and reproducing inequalities and explore how it can embrace new possibilities to address and reduce unfairness and related disparities across societies. The overarching aim of this Special Issue is to foster innovative thinking that pushes the boundaries of accounting research, theory, and practice in addressing some of the most pressing issues of our time.

The last submission date for this Special Issue is 30 November 2025.  All details are available HERE

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Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management

Special issue on

Climate Change Accounting, Reporting and Account-ability: Responses by Governments, Not-for-Profit Organisations and Charities

Despite the proliferation of research on sustainability accounting and ac-countability, only recently have accounting researchers started to focus on issues relating to climate reporting, investment and accountability in great-er depth in the public sector. This is perhaps unsurprising, given that the importance of paying attention to climate change within public management research has only just begun to be recognized. However, few accounting scholars have highlighted the role of public budgeting in addressing climate-related challenges and the fact that this requires significant financial resources.

Public sector organizations, charities and other civil society institutions can play an important role in promoting climate resilience and sustainable development. However, despite a growing interest in exploring how the public sector can contribute to climate change initiatives, the existing literature is yet to conceptualize and extend our understanding of climate accounting, reporting and accountability in the public sector. Given the gaps in the ex-tant accounting literature, the guest editors of this JPBAFM special issue would like to invite high quality research papers that provide evidence-based accounts of climate change mitigation and adaptation that will help to extend our understanding of climate accounting, reporting and account-ability by central, regional, or local governments, charities and not-for-profit organizations.

A workshop on the above research themes will be held at the Essex Business School in June 2024 (date will be announced in due course) at which potential authors can present their work. However, a presentation at this workshop will not be a prerequisite for submission to the special issue. Authors interested in presenting at the workshop must submit an extended abstract by emailing Prof. Pawan Adhikari at padhik@essex.ac.uk by 31 May 2024.

Paper submission is open from September 2024 to 31 December 2024. Guest editors of this special issue are Pawan Adhikari, Bedanand Upadhaya, Chaminda Wijethilake, Zlatinka Blaber, and Wei Qian. More information is available HERE

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 Call for Expressions of Interest: Associate Editors – Pacific-Basin Finance Journal

The Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (PBFJ) is seeking multiple qualified candidates for the role of Associate Editor (AE). These voluntary and unpaid AE positions involve collaborating with the editorial team to oversee the peer review process, contribute to editorial decisions, and uphold the journal's commitment to scholarly excellence. The AE roles will begin on January 1, 2025, with a 3-year duration and potential for renewal based on performance. For more details, please visit HERE.

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Call for Papers

Engaging with Responsible Science – An Ongoing Initiative in Pre-registered Research

PBFJ is actively embracing and fostering the principles of responsible science, captured by three central pillars: Credible research, Relevant research, and Independent research. As part of this commitment, we issue an ongoing call for research that engages a “pre-registration” design.

Pre-Registration in a Nutshell

The pre-registration process focuses on accepting proposed projects based on innovative ideas (clearly linked to finance research questions), highly capable expert research teams, and frontier “gold standard” techniques that promise to deliver credible and reliable knowledge. The primary evaluation occurs before the research has been conducted, ensuring that the decision to publish is not affected by the significance or direction of the results but rather by the importance of the research question and the strength of the methods.

Four-Phase Process

1. Expressions of Interest: We invite expressions of interest as the first step in a 4-phase process of pre-registration studies.

2. Pitch: Approved teams are invited to pitch their idea in 1,000 words.

3. Pre-registered Report: For approved pitches, teams are invited to create a detailed pre-analysis plan (before any data are collected), which will be peer reviewed. Accepted reports will be published stand-alone in PBFJ.

4. Pre-registered Study: For accepted pre-registered reports, teams are invited to execute the study under the status of “in principle accept”.  These fully executed studies will undergo peer review, primarily to ensure adherence to the agreed protocol. Accepted studies will be published in PBFJ as companions to their matching reports.

For further details (including eligibility and submission details), please refer to the full editorial note.

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Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics in Applied Finance

This special issue will provide a knowledge base for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to disseminate novel findings and fresh insights to facilitate progress in the field.

Guest editors:

• Adrian Gepp, Bond University, Australia / Bangor Business School at Bangor University, UK
• Christopher Bilson, Bond Business School, UK
• Abhay Singh, Macquarie University, Australia
• Bruce Vanstone, Bond University, Australia / Bangor Business School at Bangor University, UK

Special issue information:

The rise of machine learning and big data presents challenges and opportunities for financial investment research and practice. This special issue will provide a knowledge base for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to disseminate novel findings and fresh insights to facilitate progress in the field. While this is a cross-disciplinary topic by its nature, all papers must have finance at its core to be consistent with the overarching aims of the Pacific Basin Finance Journal, including its focus on the Asia-Pacific Region.  For further details, click HERE.  Due 30 November 2024.

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