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27th Annual Financial Reporting & Business Communication (FRBC) Conference

Thursday 4 - Friday 5 July 2024 University of Bristol

We are pleased to announce the 27th Annual Financial Reporting and Business Communication (FRBC) Conference on 4–5 July 2024 organised by the University of Bristol and the BAFA FARSIG. FRBC is one of the premier conferences of its kind worldwide and it attracts an international audience. The conference comprises sessions with full papers with discussants, 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. These include, but are not limited to:

  • The role and limitations of the corporate annual report
  • The effectiveness of financial reporting standards
  • Accounting measurement and disclosure
  • Sustainability, integrated and environmental reporting
  • The composition and format of corporate reports and the role of the visual
  • Corporate reporting and accountability in the public sector
  • The effectiveness of narrative and textual information in corporate reporting
  • The role of financial reporting and governance mechanisms in capital markets
  • Historical perspectives on financial accounting and reporting

Keynote Speaker 

Richard Barker, Professor of Accounting, University of Oxford, International Sustainability Standards Board.

Session in Honour of Professor Mike Jones

The 2024 conference will include a session in honour of Professor Mike Jones, who founded the FRBC conference in 1996 and organized it until 2021. The session will celebrate Mike’s academic legacy, recognising his key contributions to the accounting literature, and discussing the possible future directions in these areas.

Registration

Opens: 20 February 2024
Closes: 30 June 2024.

Fees

  • Regular fee / Early Bird (registration on or before 15.06.24): £200
  • Regular fee (registration after 15.06.24): £250
  • PhD students: £100

Registration is via your BAFA membership account.

All delegates must be a member of the British Accounting and Finance Association. Non-BAFA Members will need to join BAFA to attend the conference. Further details of the benefits of membership and where to join are available at https://bafa.ac.uk/membership/. The BAFA membership fee is £30, or £15 for PhD students and retired academics.

Submissions

Submission Deadline (Extended): 15 May 2024.

Papers, full or developmental (up to 7,000 words), are invited on the above-mentioned topics or other aspects of financial reporting and business communication. Papers may take empirical, theoretical and/or conceptual approaches, including case studies or experiments.

Papers (please mark as FULL or DEVELOPMENTAL paper) should be submitted by email to frbc-conference2024@bristol.ac.uk. 

For doctoral students wishing to present in the doctoral stream, a structured abstract of up to 1,000 words should be submitted. A Sue Hrasky Scholarship is available for the 2024 conference 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-conference2024@bristol.ac.uk.

Further details are available here.

Accommodation & Travel

Getting to FRBC 2023

The nearest train station is Bristol Temple Meads. The nearest airport is Bristol Airport. Regular buses run from Bristol airport to the city of Bristol.

For some international travel, you may need to fly into London Heathrow airport. Using the Heathrow Express, you can travel directly to London Paddington, from where there are regular trains to and from Bristol Temple Meads. Information on train times is available on the National Rail website.

Accommodation

There are a number of places to stay in Bristol.

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Organisers

Mark Clatworthy (University of Bristol)

Stuart Cooper (University of Bristol)

Silvia Gaia (University of Essex)

Diogenis Baboukardos