April 2023

NEWSLETTER

AFAANZ 2023 CONFERENCE

It is with great excitement that the AFAANZ Board announce that the 2023 AFAANZ Conference registrations are now open; and we are looking forward to seeing our AFAANZ members at The Star on the Gold Coast from July 2 – July 4, with SIG events beginning on July 1.

The theme for the final dinner is "Golden Sands", so you can interpret that anyway you want... Gold, Beach, Summer....

We also welcome our plenary speakers: Professor Jennifer Joe from the University of Delaware; and Professor Henk Berkman from the University of Auckland.

The AFAANZ Board have again kept registration fees to previous year's rates:

Early Bird Registration (up until Friday 26th May)

AFAANZ Member $690.00 ($790.00 after 26th May)
Non Member $1,100.00 ($1210.00 after 26th May)
First Time Attendee $550.00 *
Research Student $440.00 *
Retirees $440.00 *

To register for the * discounted rates, please email info@afaanz.org for the discount codes, along with any required documentation to support your discount. Also note that you must be an AFAANZ member to eligible for the discount code.

Click HERE to go to the registration page

The AFAANZ Board and our sponsors: CA ANZ, CPA and MYOB, and our exhibitors look forward to catching up and connecting!

Call for Applications - AFAANZ Research Fund

The AFAANZ Research Fund (ARF) Annual Grants Program is designed to encourage and support members by providing funding for research projects. The 2023 round will focus on quality projects that address or respond to contemporary and future challenges to, and/or have implications for, accounting and finance practice, policy and/or the professions. Grants are competitive, and are primarily intended to support small-scale projects of up to one year’s duration or to assist in seed funding for larger scale projects. Applicants must demonstrate their ability to conduct the proposed research and show how the project will benefit the research profile of the individuals and the discipline. The pool of funds comes directly from fees paid by institutional members. As such, access to the ARF is limited to AFAANZ members based at a member institution.

To view categories, eligibility and application process please see HERE. To download the Dean or Head supporting letter to upload with your application, click HERE.

Access the grant application system at https://pitchmyresearch.com/grants.

Note that you will receive an email of confirmation from pitchmyresearch@gmail.com on successful submission.

Application Closing Date: 30 April 2023

AFAANZ Board Election

Voting is now open for the 2023-2025 AFAANZ Board, which closes 30th April at 5.00pm AEST.

There are eight nominations for five vacant positions on the Board:

David Bond
Banita Bissoondoyal-Bheenick
Lily Chen
Robert Czernkowski
Craig Deegan
Lisa McManus
Michaela Rankin
Yaowen Shan

The biographies of the nominees can be found HERE

To vote, please go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Z2SBKSZ

Notice of the Annual General Meeting of AFAANZ

Dear member,

This is to advise you of the upcoming Annual General Meeting of the members of AFAANZ. The details of this meeting are as follows:

Date: Friday 5th May, 2023
Time: 4.00pm AEST

This meeting will be an online meeting using Zoom. If you wish to attend the meeting or submit a question, please email info@afaanz.org and the link, agenda and reports will be emailed to you.

Message from MYOB CEO Greg Ellis

Greg Ellis, MYOB’s CEO, discusses the importance of using a comprehensive business management platform to streamline operations, increase efficiency, and drive growth.

Watch this insightful address on the future of business management HERE

SIG EVENTS AT THE AFAANZ CONFERENCE

FINANCIAL REPORTING INTEREST GROUP

2023 FINANCIAL REPORTING FORUM JULY 1

The 2023 Financial Reporting Forum will be held at the Gold Coast on July 1 from 9am. We encourage in person attendance and all presentations will be made in person but we will cater for people to listen online. The format will commence with the various accounting standard setting bodies making presentations on current reporting issues in the morning session. This will include a comprehensive update but with particular focus on hot topics on the agenda.

The afternoon session will be devoted to presentations by PhD students, established academics and practitioners.

PhD PRESENTATIONS: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

We invite students working on PhD (or Master) projects in financial reporting especially projects that are likely to have significant relevance to accounting standards to present papers on their research. This is an opportunity for research students to obtain valuable feedback from an audience with a strong interest in financial reporting. If you are working on a topic for a higher research degree that is likely to have significant relevance to accounting standards and you would like to nominate for the afternoon session you should e-mail an abstract of no more than 300 words to Phil Hancock. (phil.hancock@uwa.edu.au) no later than May 31. Applicants will be notified by 14 June 20232. If you would like more details, call Phil on 08 6488 1835.

ACADEMICS AND PRACTITIONERS: CALL FOR PAPERS

The Forum also provides an opportunity for the academic and practitioner communities to show the standard setters that some academic research currently in progress in Australia and New Zealand that may be very relevant to them as standard setters. We invite interested academics and practitioners to submit papers on any topic related to financial reporting/accounting. Full papers or abstracts of 300 words maximum will be considered for acceptance. These should be sent to janice.loftus@adelaide.edu.au no later than May 31. Applicants will be notified by 14 June 2023. Full papers for successful applicants will be required by June 30.

So, register HERE for the forum either in person or online and hear from the accounting standard setters in Australia and New Zealand.

Phil Hancock

Chair

Join us at The Star on the Gold Coast, Australia, to participate in a symposium on accounting education that celebrates best practice education and research through a program of papers, panel sessions, and presentations by academics and industry. This year the symposium will engage you with the theme ‘Accounting Education and Culture’. We invite participants to explore this theme broadly, considering cultural identity, classroom and learning culture, institutional culture, industry culture and more.

We invite presentations on topics such as:

What does accounting look like in different cultures historically, and how does this affect teaching and learning?
How (if at all) are Indigenous perspectives being introduced into the accounting curriculum in Australia and New Zealand?
How is accounting education viewed from an institutional and student perspective, and how does this impact staff and resources?
How has Covid impacted classroom and learning culture, and what does the future look like?
How do the accounting profession and industry influence classroom culture and curriculum content?
What is the culture of the accounting profession? Who fits in? How does this affect teaching and assessment?
What is the impact of cancel culture on accounting education?

We look forward to meeting again for the AFAANZ SIG symposium in person. Please note that all presenters are expected to attend in person. However, to make the event accessible to those unable to attend, we are exploring the possibility of offering some of the symposium sessions online.

Contributions to the symposium are invited from educators, industry members and professional bodies. In addition to the research papers presented and providing an opportunity to meet to discuss ideas, share best practice and suggest directions for future research, we are continuing several previously offered sessions:

Resources Workshop. Do you have any interesting videos, YouTube clips, music, videos, artifacts relevant to accounting and the symposium’s theme? We’d like to know. You will be asked to showcase your resource in this session.
Student Engagement Strategies. Share new and innovative learning and teaching strategies with the accounting education audience.
Poster Sessions. Have an emerging idea that you would like feedback on? Want to share and engage other accounting educators? Submit your idea to host a poster session this year!
Engaging Emerging Scholars in Education Research. HoD nominations for HDR students engaged in Accounting Education PhD Research and Scholarship. Students will be asked to discuss their research, highlights and their journey. Send an expression of interest to the committee if you would like one of your students to be a part of this session.
Professional Development Session. Special guests will be announced on a rolling basis up to the symposium date.

Submissions, nominations and expressions of interest should be made electronically. For further information or to make a submission please email us @ edsigafaanz@gmail.com. Abstracts will be peer reviewed. Accepted students and presenters will have their symposium fee covered. The deadline for abstract submission is Friday 5 May 2023. Earlier submission is encouraged.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by 19 May 2023 and will be required to notify us of their intention to attend and present by 26 May 2023.

We look forward to meeting you all on the Gold Coast for what promises to be an engaging and invigorating experience.

The SIG5 Committee:
Leopold Bayerlein, Scott Copeland, Ellie Chapple, Ruth Dimes, Matt Dyki, Kimberly Ferlauto, Hoa Luong, Nick McGuigan, Lisa Powell, Bernadette Smith, Meredith Tharapos, Paul Wells and Amanda White

Public Sector and Not-for-Profit Interest Group (SIG 6) Symposium

Call for Abstracts

Theme : Next generation of researchers in the public and not-for-profit sectors

Format : Hybrid (Onsite venue: The Star on the Gold Coast & Online: Zoom)

Date : Sunday 02 July 2023

Time : 10:00 am to 1:00 pm

Join us in Gold Coast for the 2023 AFAANZ Public Sector and Not-for-Profit Accounting forum. This hybrid event will focus on building the next generation of researchers in the public and not-for-profit sectors and presents the opportunity to hear from an expert panel, as well as for presenters to receive feedback on their research.

Call for abstracts

The forum provides an opportunity for academics, research candidates, and practitioners to present their study/research project to an expert panel and receive feedback on how to extend the contribution and/or impact of that study/research project.

We invite interested persons to email an abstract of 250 words (max.) to Dr Ushi Ghoorah (ushi.gh@westernsydney.edu.au) by 31 May 2023. Applicants will be notified by 14 June 2023. A one-page summary of the study/ research project will be required by 18 June 2023.

SIG Registration Information

No charge for in-person or online attendance.

For queries, please contact SIG 6 Chair: Dr Ushi Ghoorah

Management Accounting SIG Annual Forum

The MA SIG will host its annual forum on Saturday 1 July from 6 p.m. at The Star Gold Coast. The forum will include dinner and drinks, a networking session, panel discussion, and 3-Minute PhD thesis presentations. The theme for the evening’s panel discussion is: ‘The Use of AI in Management Accounting Teaching and Research.’ Associate Professor Jodie Moll, QUT, will chair the panel. All welcome! Please consider joining the MA SIG (http://www.afaanzconference.com/sigs) and supporting our local MA community.

Tax Special Interest Group & Australian Tax Review Journal

CALL FOR PAPERS

‘Tax on the Homefront: Australia’s Evolving Tax Regime’

For research papers presented at the inaugural Tax Special Interest Group (SIG) at the Accounting and Finance Association of Australian and New Zealand (AFAANZ) conference in July 2023.

Special Issue Editor: Dr Bronwyn McCredie (General Editor: Professor Kerrie Sadiq)

Brief

The focus of tax policy in recent years has been one of a global approach with jurisdictions debating significant changes to international tax rules affecting multinational companies. While Australia is a significant contributor to the work of the OECD, it arguably also maintains its status as a leader of tax policy through domestic policy initiatives. Most recently, the ‘Multinational Tax Integrity Package – improved tax transparency’ proposed in the 2022-23 budget, seeks to impose public country by country reporting on significant global entities and was applauded worldwide by transparency advocates as a call to action for other jurisdictions (FACT coalition, 2022). Similarly, other introduced and proposed legislation focuses on changes to interest limitation rules (thin capitalisation), digital currency, deductions for intangibles, off-market share buybacks, electric car discounts, deductible gift recipients, and compliance to enhance tax system integrity through the Tax Practitioners Board.

The 2023 AFAANZ Tax SIG, followed by a special issue of Australian Tax Review, an ‘A’ ranked journal on the ABDC list, comprising papers from the SIGs inaugural meeting, aims to showcase these improvements. Papers should focus on Australian tax law in operation, rather than in theory, to provide timely and practical information for stakeholders on these policy developments. Qualitative and quantitative empirical research, including but not limited to archival analysis, case studies, surveys, experiments, and simulations are welcome.

Submission Details

This call for papers involves the submission of a working paper to the AFAANZ Tax SIG by Sunday the 14th of May 2023. Submissions need to follow Australian Tax Review formatting guidelines and should indicate whether the authors wish their paper to be considered for the special issue. Authors should also be a member of the AFAANZ Tax SIG (details on obtaining membership are attached).

Please send working papers to Bronwyn McCredie at: bronwyn.mccredie@qut.edu.au.

Authors will be notified of their acceptance to present at the AFAANZ Tax SIG by Sunday the 28th of May 2023. Please note the AFAANZ Tax SIG is currently scheduled for Sunday the 2nd of July 2023 from 9am to 1pm at the Star on the Gold Coast.

Based on the submitted papers and presentations at the AFAANZ Tax SIG, the special issue editor, along with the general editor, will invite selected authors to proceed with a full submission. Authors will be notified of this outcome by Sunday the 9th of July 2023.

Full submissions of completed papers are due by Monday 23 October 2023 and will undergo a formal review process. Papers will be initially assessed for suitability and compliance with the style guide (link below) and then sent out for peer review.

(https://legal.thomsonreuters.com.au/support/pdf/authorsupport/Australian-Tax-Review-Thomson-Reuters.pdf.),

The approximate timeline is:

December 2024: Papers returned to authors with revise and re-submission instructions from peer reviewer(s),

February 2024: Re-submission after addressing peer review(s),

February 2024: Final decision of the special issue editors,

March 2024: Papers submitted to Thomson Reuters production editor.

The special issue will be published as Issue 2, 2024.

NOTE:

All participants are invited to submit their papers to be considered for inclusion in the special issue. However, based on the number of papers presented and space restrictions for the special issue (50,000-60,000 words), it is likely that not all papers will be accepted for publication in the journal. Papers will be subject to a double-blind peer review.

Completed papers should be a maximum 10,000 words in length (excluding footnotes) and comply with the style guide for the journal. Please note that the journal generally follows the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (attached to this email).

Early submissions and communications with the guest editor are encouraged.

For further information please contact Bronwyn McCredie: bronwyn.mccredie@qut.edu.au.

All the best,

Dr Bronwyn McCredie and Prof. Kerrie Sadiq

SIGMA Virtual Brownbag

Members (and soon-to-be-members) of Management Accounting Special Interest Group are invited to present their research at our monthly virtual research workshop. The aim of this virtual workshop is to provide a friendly environment for SIG-MA members to receive feedback about their work-in-progress. We particularly encourage early career researchers to put their hands up for this opportunity to receive useful feedback about their research. The first two SIGMA virtual research workshops will be held on:

May 9th Tuesday, 12.30-1.30pm
June 6th Tuesday, 12.30-1.30pm

If you are interested in presenting your work, please email Mandy Cheng m.cheng@unsw.edu.au

All are welcome to attend the May virtual brownbag to support MA colleagues and connect with other MA researchers by joining:

https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/88511907689?pwd=TXVUMGdENEE5d2tmN09YWGQ3eXluQT09

Meeting ID: 88511907689

Password: 945219

Kia Ora/Welcome!

The AccountingPod and CPA Australia are excited to bring you Carbon Accounting Challenge 2023, which will go live at 12pm AEST on Earth Day, Saturday 22nd April 2023.

We invite final year and master level accounting students across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to participate in this challenge.

As a participant, students will complete a series of online accounting and carbon management tasks using cloud accounting and business management platforms in a 45-60 minute window.

This fun and engaging challenge will get you thinking, and provide exposure to the following:

Carbon management for a Small to Medium Business (SMB)

SMB cloud accounting and business tools
Carbon data and financial data
Business problem solving

Spaces are limited so get your friends involved, and join us to make some noise for carbon accounting on Earth Day 2023!

AccountingPod and CPA Australia will donate native trees for planting in the winners/their institution's name.

We look forward to seeing you online.

CPA Australia and AccountingPod

Accounting and Finance Special Issues

Research on Application and Impact of the hedge accounting requirements of IFRS 9 Financial Instruments

Papers must be submitted via the online system no later than 1 September 2023. Early submission is encouraged. Decisions on submitted papers will be made by 8 October 2023. All details are available HERE

Special Issue Guest Editors

Holger Daske, University of Mannheim, holger.daske@uni-mannheim.de
Kevin Li, University of New South Wales, k.li@unsw.edu.au
Lili Dai, University of New South Wales, lili.dai@unsw.au

Please email the guest editors if you have any questions.

Special Issue on Qualitative Research with practical relevance and impact in Accounting

The due date for submissions for this special issue is 1 May 2023. All details are available HERE

The guest editors are

Conor Clune, UNSW Sydney, email:c.clune@unsw.edu.au
Ralph Kober, Monash University, email:ralph.kober@monash.edu
Paul Thambar, Monash University, email:paul.thambar@monash.edu

If you have any questions please feel free to contact any of the editors for the special issue, Connor Clune (c.clune@unsw.edu.au), Paul Thambar (paul.thambar@monash.edu), or Ralph Kober (ralph.kober@monash.edu).

Special Issue on Reporting and Assurance of Climate-related and Other Non-financial Information

The due date for submissions for this special issue is 1 August 2023. All details are available HERE

The guest editors are:

Dr Shan Zhou (University of Sydney, shan.zhou@sydney.edu.au)
Professor Louise Lu (Australian National University, louise.lu@anu.edu.au)
Dr Xinning Xiao (Monash University, xinning.xiao@monash.edu)

With the Accounting & Finance Journal's move to online only publication in 2023, and with Wiley's partnership with trees.org; AFAANZ and the journal will be planting 163 trees in 2023 (490 in 2024), which will save 4,827.16 kgCO2 by the planting of trees and no longer printing hard copies.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for Papers

The twelfth Accounting History International Conference

“Accounting for arts, culture and heritage in historical perspectives”

Siena, Italy, 4-6 September 2024

Sponsored by: University of Siena, Italy and Accounting History Special Interest Group of the

Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand

While papers will be accepted across the full range of accounting history topics and methodological and theoretical perspectives, authors are encouraged to address topics relevant to the conference theme: “Accounting for arts, culture and heritage in historical perspectives”.

This involves studying the relationship between accounting, arts, culture and heritage and may include, but is not limited to, historical studies of:

Accounting, accountability and organising practices in arts, culture and heritage sectors
Accounting for heritage sites, museums, theatres, opera houses, universities, cultural organisations, and beyond
Accounting and culture through historical perspectives
Accounting and the shift of cultural paradigms
Arts-inspired research methods: exploring history through arts
Accounting profession for the arts, culture and heritage sectors
Accounting standards for heritage assets: past, present and future
Time perspectives into accounting and culture
Interdisciplinary perspectives into accounting for arts, heritage and culture

Key deadlines:

Submissions open 1 November 2023. All details are available HERE

Upcoming special sections of the British Accounting Review (BAR)

Performance Measurement, Sustainability and Governance in the Healthcare Sector, (deadline: 31 May 2023)
New challenges in governance, sustainability and accountability of universities. Click HERE for more details (deadline: 30 April 2023)

All details are available HERE

Accountability in a Sustainable World Conference
September 20 & 21, 2023

The third annual Accountability in a Sustainable World conference will again coincide with the Sustainable Investment Forum, North America (SINVNA) in conjunction with the United Nations Environmental Program Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI). The conference will include 12 plenary speeches, 4 panel discussions, and 12 contributed talks. In order to minimize the carbon footprint and to accommodate as many delegates as possible, these sessions will be presented virtually.

Speakers will have the opportunity to publish their talk or a paper in an upcoming issue of Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly (ASWQ), the first peer reviewed sustainability journal to deliver academic content to the broader business and academic audiences. The goal of the journal and the conference is to form a firm foundation for the exchange of ideas about pressing questions which have the potential to be answered/informed by academic research.

Contributed talks are sought from academics and practitioners. Practitioners are asked to pose questions they believe should be on the academics’ research agendas and academics are asked to present aspects of their research that are particularly informative to a wide cross-section of practitioners. Submissions of a summary (2,000 to 4,000 words) of the talk are sought. The Editors of the journal will choose the 12 most suitable submissions. Accepted submissions will be presented at the conference and published in the journal. Other submissions may be considered for future issues of the journal. Submission of practitioner-friendly versions of research that has been published in the leading academic journals is encouraged. Consistent with the goals of ASWQ, publication of these summaries increases the impact of the original work by exposing it to a wider readership base.

The founding editors of ASWQ recognize the continued urgent need for dialogue among academics and practitioners about sustainability, accountability, measurement, assurance of the measures, data to inform (responsible) investment decisions and accountability in setting personal, corporate and public sector goals. The aim of ASWQ is to meet this need.

The goals are to

build and strengthen the links between academia (both teaching and research) and practice,
encourage younger academics by providing an opportunity to present their work to both other academics and practitioners, and
provide opportunities for practitioners to communicate with academics and influence their work.

The journal is cross-disciplinary, with a focus on measurement, assurance of the measurements, and use of the measures. Articles will be short (2,000 to 4,000 words) and written by academics and practitioners with the intended readership comprising both of these groups.

ASWQ advances the creation and dissemination of knowledge and understanding of issues of topical practical relevance through the publication of rigorous, peer-reviewed, research and thought-pieces written by cutting edge academics and practitioners. The main focus of the peer-review process will be on the authenticity of the results, claims, and conclusions in the paper.

The most important features of published papers are topics related to climate change, ESG, CSR, and sustainability reporting provided that:

The findings are of interest to and useful for accounting and investment practitioners
The findings have inference and application to an accounting and investment management audience beyond a particular region or sector
The exposition is not excessively theoretical or technical, although some technical presentation may sometimes be necessary
The arguments incorporate practical considerations, such as implementation, relevance to regulators and standard setters, implications for preparers, auditors and users of reports etc.

Where possible, alternative and supported opinions will be published in the same issue or consecutive issues In addition to submissions of work that has not been published elsewhere, submissions may be non-technical expositions of technical work that have been published in journals where the primary audience is academics.

Please submit papers via email to asw@care-mendoza.nd.edu on or before May 31, 2023. A non-refundable submission fee of $200 must be received within 10 business days of submission. For further details on the submission process, visit https://care-mendoza.nd.edu/accountability-in-a-sustainable-world-quarterly/paper-submission/. Direct all questions to asw@care-mendoza.nd.edu.

A copy of the inaugural issue of ASWQ may be found at https://online.fliphtml5.com/jdbmp/bjni/#p=1. Videos of presentations at past conferences may be found by navigating to the conference page at: https://care-mendoza.nd.edu/.

CGIR Paper Development Workshop
Brisbane, Saturday, July 1st, 2023

The Corporate Governance: An International Review journal is delighted to announce a paper development workshop for scholars seeking to publish high-quality scholarship in the area of Corporate Governance. The workshop is open to new and established scholars and will take place at QUT in Brisbane, Australia on Saturday July 1st, 2023. CGIR’s Editors-in-Chief, Konstantinos Stathopoulos and Till Talaulicar, will attend the workshop, and Professor Abe de Jong and Professor Yu Flora Kuang will give keynotes on contemporary governance issues.

The deadline for submissions is Monday April 8th, 2023. Please see the full call for papers for more details and feel free to reach out to the PDW organisers (Gavin Nicholson, Bo Qin & Pieter-Jan Bezemer) in case you have any questions.

AAAJ Special Issue - The impact of accounting and accountability in identifying and mitigating social and environmental grand challenges

Submission deadline: 30 April 2024

Further information: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/impact-accounting-and-accountability-identifying-and-mitigating-social-and

You may also consider attending the associated workshop in Rome, Italy, on 9-10 June 2023 – For further information: Fabrizio Grana <fgrana@escp.eu>

Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies

Special issue call by the Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, co-edited by Yasean Tahat from Gulf University for Science & Technology (GUST), Kuwait, Rania Kamla from Heriot-Watt University, UK and Teerooven Soobaroyen, University of Essex, UK.

https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/accounting-accountability-and-governance-middle-east-and-north-african-mena-region

An associated in-person development workshop (optional) will be held Gulf University for Science & Technology (GUST), Kuwait in February 2024. Full details about the workshop are available at https://aaee.gust.edu.kw . The deadline for considering early drafts/extended abstracts and for consideration to the workshop is 1 July 2023. Journal submission will formally start on 1st June 2024.

Meditari Accountancy Research Conference 2023, Verona, Italy, 14-15 September 2023

Conference Theme: The standardisation of sustainability reporting: organisational and professional challenges (Note: Accounting research papers not directly related to the conference theme are welcomed for presentation at the conference.)

Plenary speakers: David Cooper, Jane Andrew, Warren Maroun

Paper submission deadline: 20 May 2023, emailed to meditari.verona@ateneo.univr.it

Further information is available in the attached call for papers.

Enquiries can be sent to the conference convenors: alessandro.lai@univr.it (Alessandro Lai), riccardo.stacchezzini@univr.it (Riccardo Stacchezzini)

Meditari Accountancy Research

Accounting as technical, social and moral practice for shaping a better world

This Special Issue is concerned with accounting as a combined technical, social and moral practice with an overarching concern for shaping a better world from tomorrow, including by means of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other key mechanism. This special issue aims to facilitate the focus of minds around the effects of accounting, whether intended or unintended; accounting may have narrow premises or roles or potentially concerning consequences for the world we pass on to our children and future generations.

The last date for submission of papers for consideration for publication in this Meditari Accountancy Research Special is 16 June 2023. All details are available HERE

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and sustainability accounting: Opportunities and Challenges for public, non-governmental and hybrid sector organisations

Special issue call for papers from Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting, and Financial Management

What is this special issue about?

The adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations in 2015 has been a well-received and globally accepted iteration of the sustainable development agenda (Abhayawansa et al., 2021; Adams et al., 2020; Bebbington and Unerman, 2018). With 17 holistic goals and 169 targets, the SDG agenda aspires to stimulate action in areas that are of critical importance for humanity and the planet including hunger, poverty, inequality, health and well-being, clean energy and quality education (United Nations, 2015). Given the critical importance of SDGs, this initiative has drawn considerable attention in the policy debate and research. A number of conceptual studies have set the agenda and directions for advancing and achieving SDGs and the role of accounting and finance therein. However, little is known about how organisations, especially in the public, non-governmental and hybrid sectors are addressing and implementing the SDG goals and targets, and account for sustainability performance.

All details are available HERE

Closes: extended to June 30, 2023

SAMPJ Special Issue - The use of technology by organizations to enhance social and environmental sustainability

Submissions may include the examination of non-accounting research questions.

Submission deadline: 30 September 2023

Further information: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/use-technology-organizations-enhance-social-and-environmental-sustainability

You may also consider attending the associated conference in Lille, France, on 25-26 May 2023 – For further information: ELEONORA VEGLIANTI <eleonora.veglianti@univ-catholille.fr>

22nd A-CSEAR Conference

The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) School of Accountancy is honoured to be hosting the 22nd annual A-CSEAR Conference (Australasian - Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research).

A‐CSEAR aims to foster a supportive and inclusive community of emerging and established scholars undertaking research on the social and environmental aspects of accounting and accountability theory and practice. The conference provides an international forum in which to showcase this work and to foster much needed interdisciplinary research in accounting.

Since its inception in 2002, the A-CSEAR conference has been held in cities around Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, however this will be the first time A-CSEAR will be held in Queensland.

The conference will take place from 7-8 December, 2023.

The Early scholar colloquium will take place on 6 December, 2023.

Full details can be found on the website - QUT - A-CSEAR Conference

AFAANZ Members Areas of Expertise

To enable better collaboration between AFAANZ Members and our main sponsors – Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and CPA Australia – we are collecting information around areas of expertise of our members. The member portal has been updated to allow for selection into topic areas. Should our sponsors require expertise in a certain area, AFAANZ will be able to provide connections to provide opportunities for engagement.

To enter this information, enter your AFAANZ member portal and click on the Additional Profile Information tab and select the Personal Information tab. Click on the edit/create button and the areas of expertise multiple check-box topics will appear along with an areas of interest text box to enter your information. Email info@afaanz.org if you have any questions.

The AFAANZ Doctoral Education Network (AFDEN) aims to encourage and help enable the broad offering of a rich suite of doctoral-level subjects suitable for accounting and finance students in their first year of study, leading up to confirmation.

Subjects for 2023 are now open for registration:

Research Process "Lite" - presented by Professor Robert Faff

Finance Theory - presented by Professor Tom Smith

Empirical Finance - presented by Professor Tom Smith

Research Methodologies - presented by Professor Tom Smith

Please click HERE for more details.