As financial markets integrate and business operations diversify, the need for adoption of common global accounting practices intensifies. Heightening this need further are inadequacies in reporting systems that sometimes undermine the credibility of published financial data. Incidences of inadequate reporting in turn have brought a call for research on how to align the content and presentation of corporate financial statements better with the interests of those statements’ users.

The Accounting and Finance Conference is a research forum for academics, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in the areas of accounting and finance. Through its broadly defined scope, we welcome research in areas such as accounting history, finance, financial reporting and communication methodologies, interdisciplinary perspectives on accounting, management control, and public sector financial management. The AF conference provides an outlet for high-quality, refereed, empirical research on all aspects of accounting and finance. Purely theoretical research with the potential for empirical applications and in-depth literature reviews also are welcome.

Major topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Auditing, Accounting Education, Accounting History, Accounting and International Capital Market, Financial Analysis and Reporting, Global Accounting and IFRS, Corporate Governance, Accounting and Information systems, Data Analytics and Extensive Business Reporting Langiage (XBRL), Management Accounting and Control, Public Sector and Nonprofit Accounting, Taxation, Sustainability Accounting and Reporting, Environmental Accounting and other related topics.

Papers/topics dealing with Accounting and Finance Conference, including but not limited to:

Accounting Challenges – Strategic Accounting

Management Control Systems

Creative Accounting and Earnings Management

Forensic Accounting and Fraud

Tax Accounting and Fraud

Prevention of fraud and unacceptable accounting practices

Information security audits

Electronic crime

Best Practices in Corporate Governance

Asset-liability management

Bank assurance

Banking crises

Derivatives and structured financial products

Efficiency and performance of financial institutions and bank branches

Financing decisions of banks

Investment banking

Management of financial institutions

Regulation and supervision of the banking industry, both nationally and internationally

Technological progress and banking

The role of central banks

Accountability

Accounting standards and regulations

Environmental accounting

Financial accounting

Management accounting

Risk management and internal control

Social accounting

Asset pricing

Bankruptcy prediction and determinants

Corporate finance

Credit risk modelling and management

Financial engineering

Foreign exchange markets

Law and finance

Mergers and acquisitions

Mutual funds management

Portfolio management

Regulations of financial markets

Venture capital

Accounting and Finance

Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation

Auditing Technology

Banking, Accounting and Finance

Behavioral Accounting and Finance

Corporate Governance

Critical Accounting

Economics and Accounting

Education Economics and Development

Electronic Banking

Electronic Finance

Financial Markets and Derivatives

Financial Services Management

Culture and Business Management

Managerial and Financial Accounting

Monetary Economics and Finance

Revenue Management

Strategic Engineering Asset Management

Applied Economic Studies

Complexity in Business and Economics

Business and Economics Engineering

Experimental Design and Process Optimization

Product Development