2007 AFAANZ Conference

ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND LIMITED

1-3 July 2007
The Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Papers are invited for the 2007 AFAANZ Conference to be held at The Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

The conference is very broad in its scope and we intend to include concurrent sessions in finance, financial reporting, international accounting, auditing and governance, management accounting, public sector accounting, environmental reporting, accounting information systems, tax, accounting history, critical perspectives, qualitative methodologies and interdisciplinary research. We would like to encourage young researchers and those who are not members of AFAANZ to consider submitting a paper so that they can experience the benefits of attending the conference. AFAANZ is devoted to a very broad sphere of accounting and finance research and we welcome innovative research approaches as well as those that are well-established.

The advantages of presenting a paper include feedback from the audience, and usually from a discussant. There will also be a prize for the best paper in each major topic stream. Advantages of attending the conference include the opportunity to network with colleagues including many leading researchers in the accounting and finance disciplines as well as developing research ideas from the many other papers presented.

For this year's conference, there will be no poster sessions. There will be concurrent sessions (as in previous conferences) and a forum. The forum will consist of short presentations with no discussants. There will be a chair and a general discussion at the forum session. This change is intended to benefit newer researchers.

Papers should conform to the style and format of Accounting & Finance, the journal of AFAANZ.

Independent reviewers will consider all submitted papers.

Guidelines for submission
All papers are to be submitted online only via http://www.afaanz.org/openconf/openconf.php. Papers submitted in hard copy form will not be accepted. Your submission should contain the following in one document:

- A one page abstract of up to 300 words (including at least 3 keywords)
- The main body of the paper

Each presenting author may only submit one paper. You may be the co-author of more than one paper, but each paper must be presented by an author who is not presenting any other paper, and who has paid the conference registration fee.

Submission Date
Papers must be submitted by 31 January 2007. Late submissions will NOT be accepted.

Notification
Email notification of the outcome of submissions will be sent to the submitting author by the end of March 2007 at the latest.

Enquiries
Any enquiries regarding the submission process for papers may be directed to:
Professor Jenny Stewart
Co-Chair, Technical Committee
Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
Griffith Business School
Griffith University
PMB 50, GCMC, Qld, 9726, Australia
Email: j.stewart@griffith.edu.au

Or

Associate Professor David Hay
Co-Chair, Technical Committee
Department of Accounting & Finance
The Business School
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland, New Zealand
Email: d.hay@auckland.ac.nz