Please see below a list of Call for Papers

 

The 23rd Annual ANCAAR Audit Research Forum will be held in-person at ANU on 5-6 December 2025 (Friday-Saturday). The Forum is focused on emergent issues and new research in auditing, attestation and assurance.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

To have your current research considered for presentation at the Forum, you need to submit an extended abstract only at this stage (but full papers are acceptable).

Submissions must be sent as email attachments to ancaar@anu.edu.au (only) and must be received by Friday 26 September 2025 to be considered.

Preference will be given to papers that have not previously been presented at a conference or submitted to a journal (excluding papers that have been substantially changed subsequent to its prior presentation). Your submission email should include a statement in this regard. As in previous years, we strongly encourage submissions from PhD candidates and Early Career Researchers.

Outcomes will be notified by 17 October. When deciding to submit an extended abstract, note that full versions of accepted papers must be provided by 14 November.

INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE FORUM

Attendance at the Forum is by invitation only. You will receive a separate invitation closer to the event date.

FURTHER INFORMATION

General information on the ANCAAR Audit Research Forum is available here.

If you have any questions about paper submission or the Forum, please email us at ancaar@anu.edu.au

2025 ANCAAR Audit Research Forum Coordinators: Dr Eunice Khoo and Dr Madhukar Singh

24th A-CSEAR Conference 2025

Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia

3rd – 5th December 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Rewilding accounting research, education, and practice

Th Monash Business School warmly invites you to the 24th Australasian Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (A-CSEAR) Conference and Early Scholars’ Colloquium. The Early Scholars’ Colloquium will be held on 3rd December 2025, followed by the main conference from 3rd to 5th December 2025.

The conference theme for 2025 is Rewilding accounting research, education, and practice. Rewilding is often conceived as a phenomenon confined to conservation biology, yet rewilding is increasingly seen as a broader, multi-faceted concept that involves embracing messiness, complexity, interconnectedness, curiosity, and compassion. Drawing upon the concept of rewilding in its broadest sense, we encourage the widest possible array of understandings, applications, and interrogation of rewilding in the context of accounting. This may include themes related to (but not limited to) rewilding in the context of accounting and accountability research, including the research process itself; rewilding accounting knowledge and practices; rewilding accounting education including curriculum and pedagogy; and rewilding ourselves, academics, and the accounting profession. The conference will hold space for diversity of perspectives, including the visible, invisible, and those that do not have a voice. We encourage interdisciplinarity, collaboration with those who think and do differently, to nurture imagination and craft collective insight into accounting’s role in addressing the challenges of our time.

Full Conference Submissions

We invite paper presentations on any aspect of social and environmental accounting. The deadline for submissions is 25th August 2025. Notification about the decision will be made by 29th September 2025.

All papers should be submitted via the conference online submission system found at: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=acsearconference2025. Two types of submissions are encouraged: (1) full papers and (2) work in progress. Authors submitting full papers are expected to provide a complete manuscript by the submission deadline, whereas authors submitting a work in progress are invited to submit a 250-word abstract. Emerging scholars who would like to take part in the Emerging Scholars’ Colloquium please refer to the separate details provided on the conference web page. Please note that abstracts will be made available to all delegates prior to the conference. Submissions will be subject to review by a scientific committee.

For more information, please contact the conference organisers at acsear2025@monash.edu

Visit conference website at https://www.monash.edu/business/events/a-csear-conference-2025

To download the Call for Paper documents, please click either:

Announcing AAAJ’s APIRA 2028 – Suva, Fiji

The Asia-Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting (APIRA) 2028 conference and its Emerging Scholars' Colloquium returns to its traditional AAAJ management, philosophy, format and scope, convening for the first time in APIRA’s long history, in Suva Fiji in the South Pacific.

APIRA hosts are The University of the South Pacific (USP) School of Accounting, Finance and Economics (SAFE) in association with Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal (AAAJ).

The APIRA conference will take place on 11-13 July 2028 and its Emerging Scholars’ Colloquium will take place on 10 July 2028.  Both will be convened on USP’s Suva campus

The website for the conference can be found at: https://www.usp.ac.fj/usp-safe/apira-conference/

Our Fiji location is an exciting step for APIRA and AAAJ as we continue to develop the interdisciplinary accounting research community across the Asia Pacific region and globally. 

Please include this conference, its website and dates in your forward planning diaries. We look forward to meeting with you in Suva, Fiji, 2028!

Professors Lee Parker & James Guthrie - AAAJ Editors - Glasgow & Macquarie Universities
Professor Sumit Lodhia – Co-Director Centre for Markets, Values & Inclusion - University of South Australia
Professor Gurmeet Singh – Deputy Vice-Chancellor - The University of the South Pacific

 

Special issue - Call for papers

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Management, reporting, and assurance to address social and environmental challenges

Guest Editors:

Sumit Lodhia (Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia)

Amanpreet Kaur (Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia)

Nathalie Crutzen (HEC Liège, ULiège, Liège, Belgium)

The United Nations established the SDGs in 2015. These represent 17 global goals and 169 associated targets (UN, 2015).  Organisations are impacted by these goals, and they have responded through their management, reporting and assurance processes (Lodhia, 2025, Lodhia et al, 2023 2025, Kaur et al, 2025) to address systemic societal and environmental challenges (Dimes et al, 2025, Grana et al, 2025). However, existing research has touched the surface only and there is scope for exploring the management, reporting and assurance of the SDGs in greater depth (Bebbington and Unerman, 2018, 2020), given that more than a decade has elapsed since these goals were formulated. This Special Issue is an opportunity to bring together research that addresses how organisations have responded to the SDGs since their inception.

Organisations respond to their sustainability challenges internally (sustainability management) and externally (sustainability reporting) (Lodhia, 2013). Assurance provides credibility to these processes (Farooq and de Villiers, 2019, 2020). Thus, the development of SDGs management, reporting and assurance is critical and provides an understanding of how organisations respond to these goals.

SDGs impact most organisations, including corporations (Lodhia et al, 2023), the public sector (Kaur et al, 2025, Lodhia et al, 2025), and other institutions such as NGOs, B-Corps, charities, social enterprises, universities and hybrid organisations (Lodhia, 2025). An understanding of SDGs management, reporting and assurance overall in specific sectors or across the sectors is lacking. Research approaches such field research encompassing methods such as interviews, content analysis, observation and focus groups are needed to understand the context within which management, disclosure and assurance of SDGs takes place. It is also essential to consider country specific and regional studies into SDGs management, reporting and assurance in order to understand the similarities and differences in these practices.

There is also a need to explore specific SDGs, as each of the 17 goals aims to address a distinct social, environmental or economic issue affecting global communities. Moreover, the SDGs are inherently interconnected, whereby progress in one area can generate cascading effects, either beneficial or adverse on others (Nilsson et al, 2018). Despite this complexity, the interrelationships among the goals remain largely underexplored in current research and practice. Hence, it becomes worth exploring how organisations address specific goals and whether a tradeoff is involved in addressing the goals. 

There is indeed further scope for expanding our knowledge base in relation to the management, reporting and assurance of the SDGs and this special issue attempts to address this. Potential issues to consider in this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • The management of SDGs by organisations, the organizational and behavioral processes involved, and the measurement of SDGs.
  • The disclosure of SDGs, the motivations for such disclosures and the links with internal processes.
  • The assurance for SDGs and the role of auditors in this process.
  • The role of stakeholders in management, reporting and assurance of SDGs, stakeholder perceptions of corporate SDGs practices, and stakeholder engagement processes
  • The role of modern technologies (such a blockchain and artificial intelligence) in SDGs management, disclosure and assurance
  • The use of social media for corporate information dissemination on SDGs
  • The impact of the Covid pandemic on SDGs management, reporting and assurance.
  • The impact of regulatory requirements on the management, disclosure and assurance of SDGs
  • Partnerships between organisations for the management, reporting and assurance of SDGs
  • Rainbow washing of SDGs management, disclosure and assurance.

Submission deadline: 28th February 2026.

Papers should be submitted through the journal’s online submission system at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/medar choosing the SDG special issue in step 5 of the submission process.

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There is a special issue running in Meditari Accountancy Research on the main topic "ACCOUNTING INFORMATION USE IN PUBLIC SECTOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT", which stands out and calls for innovative pieces of research in the area.

The guest editors Susana Jorge (University of Coimbra, PT), Sandro Brunelli (University of Roma Tor Vergata, IT), Eugenio Caperchione (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT), and Liliana Pimentel (University of Coimbra, PT) would like to invite your entity to spread the voice of this SI and to encourage your members and associates to propose valuable research and make the related submission(s).

There is an opportunity for your scholars that might elevate the quality and interest of this special issue.

Further information can be found in the following link:

https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/accounting-information-use-public-sector-financial-management

The deadline for full paper submissions is December, 31st 2025.

Accepted papers will be published on a rolling basis and the related journal issue will be released in the late 2026 or early 2027.

Upcoming special sections of the British Accounting Review (BAR)

2026 International Consortium for Values-based Governance Conference

The International Consortium for Values-based Governance (ICVG) at the Department of Accounting at Monash Business School invites paper submissions for the 2026 ICVG Conference, a two-day event exploring the interplay between shareholder and stakeholder interests from a firm’s perspective.

More details are provided in the attached Call for Papers.

Submission deadline: Friday 14 November 2025
Submit via this Google Form  Google Form

For more details please contact the Conference Chair, Associate Professor Christo Karuna, at christo.karuna@monash.edu