AFAANZ Doctoral Symposium Program
The Association is proud of its tradition in promoting its annual Doctoral Symposium to those undertaking their PhD studies.
2025 American Accounting Association/Deloitte Foundation/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium
The AFAANZ Board may nominate a PhD student from Australia or New Zealand who has met the eligibility criteria stated below to attend as the AFAANZ representative at the AAA Doctoral Consortium in the USA. The selected applicant (or their university) will be required to pay a registration fee of US$800.00. AFAANZ will contibute $3000 towards flights and accommodation. It is expected that the nominee would have completed all necessary course work for their PhD and would have a reasonably well-developed dissertation proposal.
The 2025 AAA/Deloitte Foundation/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium will be held June 8–11 at Deloitte University in Westlake, Texas.
Consortium Objectives
The primary objective of the Consortium is to improve the quality of future accounting education and research by enriching the experience of selected doctoral candidates from U.S., Canadian and international universities. The Consortium provides a forum for examining accounting issues from different research perspectives. Formal presentations, panels and social activities provide opportunities for students to interact with today's leading teachers and researchers and with their peers from other universities. Breakout groups provide opportunities for feedback on participants' ongoing research and presentation skills.
Criteria for Participation
The nominee for participation must:
- Be a current member of AFAANZ
- be enrolled full-time in a Ph.D. or DBA program in accounting and have completed at least TWO YEARS of doctoral studies,
- have at least one more year remaining "in residence" at their University after the Consortium, and
- NOT have been a full-time faculty appointee at any rank during the current academic year
- Have attended a past AFAANZ Doctoral Symposium.
Procedure
Nominations in writing must be emailed to the AFAANZ Office (info@afaanz.org) and include the following documents:
- Cover letter, including how the Consortium will benefit the applicant (one page);
- A copy of your PhD Abstract;
- A detailed report from the applicant on progress with the PhD (up to three pages);
- Curriculum vitae, including names of three academic referees, one of which is the applicant’s supervisor (one page);
- A questionnaire to be filled in by the main thesis advisor (see attached template).
Applications close Friday, 8 November, 2024 and must reach the AFAANZ office by email on info@afaanz.org. The Board’s decision on the AFAANZ nominated representative to the AAA will be announced in the second week in December. Each representative must provide a detailed report to the AFAANZ Board following the Consortium.
2025 European Accounting Association
The AFAANZ Board may nominate a PhD student from Australia or New Zealand who has met the eligibility criteria stated below to attend as the AFAANZ representative at the EAA Doctoral Colloquium. The 41 st EAA Doctoral Colloquium will take place at the Luiss Campus, Viale Romania, Rome, Italy on 24-27 May 2025 immediately prior to the EAA Annual Congress. AFAANZ will contibute $3000 towards flights and accommodation. It is expected that the nominee would have completed all necessary course work for the PhD and would have a reasonably well-developed dissertation proposal. Students accepted for the Colloquium will be required to prepare a short paper for presentation at the meeting. The Board’s decision on the AFAANZ nominated representative to the EAA will be announced in the second week in December.
The nominee for participation must:
- Be a current student member of AFAANZ
- Be enrolled full-time in PhD or DBA program in accounting and have progressed beyond their first year.
- Have attended a past AFAANZ Symposium
Nominations in writing must be emailed to the AFAANZ Office (info@afaanz.org) and include the following documents:
- Cover letter, including how the Consortium will benefit the applicant (one page);
- A copy of your PhD Abstract;
- A detailed report from the applicant on progress with the PhD (up to three pages);
- Curriculum vitae, including names of three academic referees, one of which is the applicant’s supervisor (one page);
- A questionnaire to be filled in by the main thesis advisor (see attached template).
Applications close Friday, 8 November, 2024 and must reach the AFAANZ office by email on info@afaanz.org. The Board’s decision on the AFAANZ nominated representative to the EAA will be announced in the second week in December. Each representative must provide a detailed report to the AFAANZ Board following the Consortium.
2024 Doctoral Symposium Program
AFAANZ is proud to announce nominations are now being called for its annual Doctoral Symposium from students undertaking a PhD program at Institutional member Schools and Departments. This year's Doctoral Symposium is being held from Wednesday 26 June to Friday 28 June 2024 at the Cordis Hotel, Auckland, prior to the commencement of the AFAANZ conference. All details are provided in the Nomination form which has also been sent to Heads of AFAANZ Institutional Member Schools/Departments. The final date to nominate a student to attend this year’s Symposium is 28 February 2024.
The objectives of the Symposium are to:
- Enable you to present an overview of your research (as described below) in a constructive forum and to receive feedback from other doctoral students and leading faculty;
- Guide you on the process for managing your thesis;
- Offer advice as to how to improve the probability of publishing your research;
- Enable you to provide constructive feedback to other doctoral students; and
- Give you opportunities to interact with doctoral students from other universities and with leading faculty in accounting and finance.
Ideally students should be about 12-18 months into the PhD program. The format of the Symposium will be such that students will have ample opportunity to interact with faculty members and other students on an informal basis. Further, participants are required to undertake prior reading of all PhD proposals within their study group, and they should come prepared to participate in the discussion of all proposals within their study group. Students are to arrange their own accommodation.
The Doctoral Symposium will be held at the Cordis Hotel before the AFAANZ annual conference at the same venue. There is a $590 registration fee payable by the department of attending students. Continuing initiatives from prior years, AFAANZ will provide all symposium participants free registration to the annual conference should they wish to attend. Also, AFAANZ will make available five (5) assistance grants for students who are unable to fund their travel.
The nomination form is available HERE . Nominations are due by Wednesday 28th February.
Candidates must be individual members of AFAANZ.
Useful Information in Managing your Thesis - This is a a compilation of advice and suggestions from doctoral students and faculty at recent symposia, and may be useful to new or intending doctoral students in accounting and finance.
See list of Doctoral Program Participants and Faculty since 1994 HERE.