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The mission of the IAAER is to promote excellence in accounting education and research on a worldwide basis and to maximize the contribution of accounting academics to the development and maintenance of high quality, globally recognized standards of accounting practice.

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 COSMOS Accountancy Chronicle Vol. 23 No. 1 - COSMOS contains news about upcoming IAAER events, grant awards, and calls for proposals as well as news about recent activities of the IAAER and IASB.

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

ACCA/IAAER Call for Proposals and Participation from Emerging Scholars

The International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER) and Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) will host a Paper Development Workshop in Bucharest, Romania on Tuesday June 12 in conjunction with the AMIS 2012 Conference. The objective of the workshop is to provide doctoral students, early career researchers and emerging scholars (hereafter referred to as emerging scholars) from transitional economies with feedback on their research prior to the resulting paper being submitted to a quality journal. Representatives of the ACCA and IAAER will select the research projects to be featured during the workshop and will attend the workshop to provide comprehensive feedback and guidance to the participants.

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Key Dates
Papers and Proposal Deadline: April 2, 2012
Workshop Registration Deadline: May 2, 2012
Paper Development Workshop: June 11-12, 2012

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IAAER Sponsored Conferences

June 20-21, 2012: Mastering Change: Improving Corporate Reporting and Auditing to Match New Demands - Sponsored by IAAER, NBA, and the Vrije University of Amsterdam 
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The ‘Vrije' University of Amsterdam, the Dutch Organization for Registered Accountants (NBA) and the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER) are jointly organizing this International Conference titled ‘Mastering Change, improving corporate reporting and auditing to match new demands' to be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 20 - 21 June 2012.

The event aims to bring together communities in the accounting arena - academics, policy makers, professionals and institutions - to exchange views in a collective and public environment.

The Conference rationale is explained more at length in the Announcement and Call for papers on the ‘programme and papers' page of this website.

We invite you to participate in what promises to be a stimulating intellectual venture and we very much look forward to seeing you in Amsterdam!

February 14-16, 2013: International Accounting Conference sponsored by IAAER, Accounting Section of the German Academic Association for Business Research (AS-VHB), and Ernst & Young, Germany
Frankfurt/Main, Germany

From February 14 to 16, 2013, an IAAER International Accounting Conference will be held in collaboration with the Accounting Section of the German Academic Association for Business Research (AS-VHB) in Frankfurt/Main, Germany; the event will be hosted by Ernst & Young, Germany.

The conference intends to bring together the different strands of research in the broad field of accounting research, creating an increased awareness and deepened understanding on how today’s business challenges in the financial and real economy can be addressed from different viewpoints and with different methodologies. Thus, papers will be invited in all areas of managerial and financial accounting and auditing, including national and international accounting regulation, standard-setting, corporate governance, ethical issues, financial management, risk management or other related topics in the private and public sector. Authors are invited to submit theoretical as well as empirical and normative papers. Independent reviewers will referee all submitted papers. Fast-track review processes will be provided for submissions to selected high-quality accounting journals. Preceding the conference, tentative plans are for IAAER to organize an Early Career Researchers Paper Development Workshop for promising scholars in transitional economies.

Sponsor

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University and Institutional Members

• University members include the accounting departments of universities worldwide with a commitment to accounting education and research. Faculty members of these universities enjoy unlimited access to all electronic International Financial Reporting Standards hosted by the IASCF. Click Join IAAER above to become a university member.
  
  
• Institutional members include leading accounting professional bodies and academic associations worldwide that collaborate with IAAER for the promotion of  accounting education and policy relevant research. Click Join IAAER above to become a university member.