The Sixth Accounting History International Conference: Accounting and the State
Conference call for papers from Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal
The Sixth Accounting History International Conference
“Accounting and the State”
Wellington, New Zealand
18 - 20 August 2010
Sponsored by:
School of Accounting and Commercial Law, Victoria University of Wellington and Accounting History Special Interest Group of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand
Papers will be accepted across the full range of accounting history topics and methodological and theoretical perspectives. As the conference is taking place in a national capital city, authors are encouraged to think about the relationships between the State and accounting, such as:
- Accounting in the public sector at the national, sub-national and local levels
- New public financial management
- Taxation and public finance
- Regulation of the profession and standard setting process
- The State and accounting in social institutions
- Accounting education and the State
- Regulation of the not-for-profit sector
- Regulation of corporate governance, fraud and collapse
- Comparisons between the public and private sectors
- Accounting, politics and public policy
- Accounting reforms and their implications for inter-generational equity
- The roles, influence and impacts of transnational State-like organisations, such as the EU.
Submission and Review of Papers: Papers written in the English language should be submitted electronically no later than 19 March 2010 to 6AHIC@ballarat.edu.au
All papers will be subject to a double-blind refereeing process and will be published on the conference web site, as refereed conference proceedings, unless otherwise advised. Papers should be written in accordance with the Accounting History manuscript submission guidelines, which are available at: http://ach.sagepub.com A special issue of the journal on the conference theme will be published following the event.
Notification of Acceptance: Notification of papers accepted for inclusion in the conference program will be made by 10 May 2010.
An Accounting History Doctoral Colloquium will be held as part of the event.
Inquiries may be directed to the Conference Convenor, Philip Colquhoun, Victoria University of Wellington, at the following e-mail address: philip.colquhoun@vuw.ac.nz Information about visiting Wellington can be found at http://www.wellingtonnz.com/ and for visiting New Zealand see http://www.newzealand.com/