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20th Workshop on Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies

Friday 4 - Friday 4 December 2020 Virtual Workshop

This is a joint call for papers for the 20th Workshop on Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies organised by BAFA's AFEE SIG and the AARG-Brunel Business School,Accounting & Finance Department, Brunel University London. This free online workshop will be held from 9.00am to 4.00pm on 4 December 2020

The workshop aims to bring together academics working on accounting and finance issues concerning emerging economies. The workshop aims to: raise the level of interest in the specific problems of accounting and finance in emerging economies; and increase awareness of real issues, so that accounting and finance in these countries will not just be seen as a matter of copying what is done in the industrialised countries.

It provides an authoritative overview of the research and progress in this field. The coverage of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to:

  • Education, training, women in accounting, and the role of professional accounting Bodies
  • Financial reporting and accounting standards, including international financial accounting standards
  • Auditing
  • Corporate governance, executive compensation, risk management and reporting
  • Management accounting, including taxation, transfer pricing and tax avoidance
  • Finance and banking issues, including behavioural accounting and finance
  • Accounting and business history
  • The impact of structural adjustment programmes on accounting practices
  • Accounting, regulation, and privatisation
  • Accounting and accountability issues, including social and environmental accounting
  • Accounting practices in family businesses.
  • The impact of culture, religion, ethnicity, and history on accounting and finance
  • Public sector accounting and reforms, including new public management
  • Accounting and finance in socio-economic development and poverty reduction.

Guest Speakers

On this occasion, we would be welcoming two distinguished guest speakers:

Professor Paul Chaney, E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Accounting, Owen Graduate School of Business, Vanderbilt University

Professor Kerry Howell, Professor of Governance and Deputy Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University

Paper Submission

Deadline EXTENDED: 8 November 2020

Full papers can be submitted directly to afee-sig@bafa.ac.uk anytime by the deadline, 8 November 2020, with the subject: Paper Submission for the 20th Workshop.

The outcome of your submissions will be communicated to you by 20 November 2020. All correspondence in relation to paper submission must be sent to the above-mentioned email address.

Venue

This workshop will be held virtually on Microsoft Teams platform, nearer the time you will receive further details on how to attend the event.

How to Register

Registration opens: 12 June 2020
Registration closes:
27 November 2020 (midnight)

Fee: Free

The workshop is FREE to attend. However, you will still need to 'purchase' a workshop ticket to register for this event. Tickets to BAFA conferences are only available to members. To purchase a ticket, log in to your account on the BAFA Membership Portal (https://members.bafa.ac.uk/) and click the 'Purchase Tickets' button. Select the appropriate ticket for the event you want to attend, and follow instructions. If you are not already a member of BAFA, please sign up for membership at https://members.bafa.ac.uk/signup. Further information on how to register for BAFA events can be found here: http://www.bafa.ac.uk/assets/uploads/conference-workshop-registration.pdf.

BAFA Annual Membership rates: Academic Staff: £30
Unsalaried PhD/MPhil Student or Retired Academic: £15

Please note that we are unable take payment on the day.


Have questions or need further information? 

If so, then, please direct any enquiries that you may have to:

Dr Karim Sorour
Workshop Organiser
Associate Professor of Accounting
Deputy Head- Accounting & Financial Management Department
Newcastle Business School
Northumbria University, Newcastle, City Campus
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 8ST

E-mail: afee-sig@bafa.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)191 2274376