2008 AFAANZ/IAAER Conference

ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND LIMITED

6-8 July 2008
Sydney, Australia


Papers are invited for the 2008 AFAANZ/IAAER Conference to be held in Sydney, 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 education, 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. Certificates will be presented for best papers in each major 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 plenary speakers and the many other papers presented.

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. The forum 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-afaanz2008/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 Thursday, 31 January 2008. 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 2008 at the latest.


Enquiries
Any enquiries regarding the submission process for papers may be directed to:
Associate Professor David Hay OR Dr Robyn Moroney at chair@afaanz.org