26th Annual Financial Reporting and Business Communication (FRBC) Conference

We are pleased to announce that the 26th Annual Financial Reporting and Business Communication (FRBC) Conference will be organised by the University of Bath School of Management and the BAFA FARSIG. The conference will take place on 6-7 July 2023. Download the conference programme.

This is one of the premier conferences of its kind worldwide and attracts an international audience. The conference comprises parallel full paper with discussants and developmental paper sessions and a doctoral stream.

The conference addresses key areas of Accounting and Financial reporting, which are of interest to accounting academics and practitioners and includes:

• The purpose of modern corporate reports
• The effectiveness of financial and non-financial reporting standards
• Accounting measurement and disclosure
• Sustainability, integrated and environmental reporting
• The composition and format of corporate reports and the role of infographics
• Corporate governance and sustainability
• Corporate reporting and accountability in the public sector
• The role of corporate reporting and corporate governance in capital markets
• Historical perspectives on accounting or corporate reporting

Keynote Speakers

Tim Kassim: International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) Technical staff at International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation

Ana Simpson: Technical staff at International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation

Thomas Toomse-Smith: Head of Innovation and Digital, Regulatory Standards at Financial Reporting Council (FRC)

Steven Young: Professor of Accounting, University of Lancaster

Registration

Full fee: £265
Early bird registration: £230 (by 15 June 2023)

PhD students: £150

The conference fee includes coffee on registration, lunch and afternoon tea both days and the Conference Dinner on Thursday.

Registration and payment can be made online at: https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/the-frbc-conference-2023/

Call for Papers

Deadline: 30 April 2023

Papers, full or developmental (up to 7,000 words), are invited on the above mentioned topics and on other aspects of financial reporting and business communication. Papers may take empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches, including case studies or experiments. Papers (please mark as FULL or DEVELOPMENTAL paper) should be submitted by emailing FRBC@bath.ac.uk. The submission deadline is 30 April 2023.

Doctoral students wishing to present in the doctoral stream, a structured abstract up to 1,000 words should be submitted. A Sue Hrasky Scholarship is available for 2023 to doctoral students in the doctoral stream. This comprises a doctoral fee waiver, receipted travel within the UK to the conference, subsistence and accommodation costs related to the conference. All submissions by doctoral students will be considered for the scholarship. The award of the Scholarship will be communicated via email. Abstracts (please mark as DOCTORAL) should be submitted by emailing FRBC@bath.ac.uk. The submission deadline is 31 March 2023

Accommodation & Travel

Please visit: https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/the-frbc-conference-2023/

Organisers

If you have any questions, or need more advice about the conference, please contact Fanis Tsoligkas (ft271@bath.ac.uk) or Silvia Gaia (sgaia@essex.ac.uk)