NOTICEBOARD

10th WORLD CONGRESS OF ACCOUNTING HISTORIANS
ST. LOUIS/OXFORD, AUGUST 1-5, 2004
CALL FOR PAPERS
ONE — TWO — THREE ONE CONFERENCE—TWO LOCATIONS—THREE THEMES

The 10th World Congress of Accounting Historians will meet in the USA with a dual venue of St. Louis, MO and Oxford, MS, from August 1-5, 2004. The Congress will commence in St. Louis on August 1 to celebrate the centenary of the first International Congress of Accountants that was held in St. Louis in 1904 as a part of the World’s Fair commemorating the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis & Clark Expedition. Sessions will be held at the St. Louis Mercantile Library, which was founded in 1846. The headquarters hotel will be the Renaissance Airport Hotel. The Congress will then move by air-conditioned motor coaches to Oxford, MS, on August 3 to give delegates an opportunity to visit the National Library of the Accounting Profession at the University of Mississippi. The Ole Miss Library is the largest accountancy library in the world. The Alumni House Hotel will be the Congress headquarters. There will be activities during the motor coach trip devoted to accounting history topics, such as featured speakers and videotapes. After the Congress, delegates may proceed to Orlando, FL, for the American Accounting Association meetings. It may be the most convenient to continue your post-Congress air travel from nearby Memphis International Airport.

Papers are invited on any accounting history topic. Papers are address any of the three Congress themes are particularly desired. The three Congress themes are:

1. International Congresses of Accountants
2. Accounting for Transportation and Financial Industries
3. Archival-Based Accounting Research

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES OF ACCOUNTANTS:

Since 2004 marks the centenary of the first International Congress of Ac-countants in St. Louis, a major theme of the 1 0th World Congress of Accounting Historians is scholarship on the sixteen International Congresses of Accountants, the nine International Congresses of Accounting Educators, and the nine preceding World Congresses of Accounting Historians. There is a need to increase the relatively limited scholarship about each of these congresses. The dates and sites of these previous congresses are:

International Congresses of Accountants World Congresses of Accounting Historians

1904 St. Louis 1972 Sydney 1970 Brussels
1926 Amsterdam 1977 Munich 1976 Atlanta
1929 New York 1982 Mexico City 1980 London
1933 London 1987 Tokyo 1984 Pisa
1938 Berlin 1992 Washington 1988 Sydney
1952 London 1997 Paris 1992 Kyoto
1957 Amsterdam 2002 Hong Kong 1996 Kingston
1962 New York 2000 Madrid
1967 Paris 2002 Melbourne

The International Congress of Accounting Educators started in 1962 and were conducted just before or after the International Congresses of Accountants, either in the same city or nearby. Leadership of the IAAER [International Association for Accounting Education and Research] will assist in reviewing papers for this theme. Some examples of possible paper topics include (1) Examination of a Specific Congress; (2) Continuity and Discontinuity of the Congresses; (3) Concept of International Congresses; (4) Key Players at Each Congress (Biographies); (5) Seminal Papers; (6) Splitting the Congresses in 1962; (7) Continuing Themes and Topics Across the Years; and (8) International Accounting Standards Movement.

ACCOUNTING FOR TRANSPORTATION AND FINANCIAL INDUSTRIES:

As the Gateway to the West, St. Louis is an appropriate venue for research on accounting for railroads, canals, riverboats, stagecoaches, airlines, and automobiles. The Mercantile Library is also a repository of several transportation collections. Thus, the Congress will highlight papers dealing with transportation-related industries throughout the world. Papers can include analyses of financial statements, accounting innovations, and the people who played a role in the development of transportation accounting. Similarly, St. Louis has historically been a financial center for Western development, so histories related to accounting for all types of financial institutions will be a focus of the Congress.

ARCHIVAL-BASED ACCOUNTING RESEARCH

Because the library at the University of Mississippi is a treasure trove of accounting archival records, one of the Congress themes will be to emphasize archival-based research. Such research can be based on any type of organization. Examples include analyses of accounting innovations, diffusion of accounting innovations, impact of environment (such as war, depression, or competition) on accounting, impact of accounting on the environment, and examples of company histories based on accounting records.

In addition to papers on the three Congress themes, papers on other topics of accounting history are also welcome.
The 10th World Congress is sponsored by the Academy of Accounting Historians. The co-conveners of the Congress of Richard Vangermeersch of the University of Rhode Island, and Dale L. Flesher of the University of Mississippi. Manuscripts for review should be sent to the following address:

Dr. Dale L. Flesher
Patterson School of Accountancy
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677 E-mail: acdlf@olemiss.edu

Papers may be submitted in either hard copy or electronic format (electronic submissions should be in either WORD or WordPerfect format). All papers should be submitted in English. Special consideration will be accorded those papers prepared by scholars who use English as a second language so as to facilitate the broadest acceptance and presentation of materials. The Congress program will focus around the best papers received. All papers will be double-blind refereed and, subject to consent, the accepted papers will be published as refereed Congress Proceedings on the Congress website. A hard-copy volume of abstracts will also be distributed. The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2004. Earlier submissions are encouraged.

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EMERGING SCHOLAR’S COLLOQUIUM
APIRA 2004 SINGAPORE
2-3 July 2004

In association with: The 4th Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting Conference
and Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal

This forum is designed for doctoral degree students, new faculty and emerging researchers. It will run immediately before the main APIRA 2004 conference scheduled for 4-6 July 2004 and will be held at Singapore Management University.
It will provide participants with the opportunity to:

• discuss their research with peers and senior research faculty who will lead the colloquium
• present their current research in small group settings
• network with scholars in their fields
• benefit from presentations and advice of leading scholars in subject areas and methodological traditions supported by the APIRA 2004 conference and Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal.

Senior faculty who will lead the colloquium will include

Professor Niamh Brennan, University College Dublin Professor Trevor Hopper, University Manchester Professor Kenneth Merchant, University of Southern California Professor James Guthrie, Macquaire University, Sydney Professor Lee Parker, The University of Adelaide
Further international professorial faculty will be announced in the coming
months.

The previous emerging scholars’ colloquium held before the APIRA Adelaide 2001 conference attracted 40 emerging scholars who were supported by 13 professors as colloquium faculty. The feedback on that colloquium’s success was outstanding. We expect the Singapore colloquium to follow on this successful path.
Formal electronic application is required, and interested persons are advised to apply early, to ensure admission. For further information, application forms and instructions, please go to the Emerging Scholars’ Colloquium page on the APIRA 2004 conference website: http://www.accountancy.smu.edu.sg/Apira/colloquium.html

This is the premier emerging scholar forum in the Asia-Pacific region, drawing together the strongest international cohort of scholars and faculty seen at any one time in the region. It only occurs once every three years. If you are an emerging scholar or the supervisor or head of school for eligible scholars, then act on this opportunity without delay.

Further enquiries regarding the colloquium can be made through:

• Professor Lee Parker, the University of Adelaide,
Email: lee.parker@adelaide.edu.au

• Ms. Adelene Ang, Singapore Management University
Email: amlow@smu.edu.sg

200 Accounting Historians Journal, December 2003
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS
FOURTH ASIAN PACIFIC INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN ACCOUNTING CONFERENCE
Singapore 4-6 July 2004
&
APIRA 2004 Emerging Scholars’ Colloquium (2-3 July 2004)
Organised by Singapore Management University
(Supporting Organisation: Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University)
In association with Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

The triennial APIRA conference now moves to the “Lion City” Singapore, follow-ing on from its predecessors in Sydney (1995), Osaka (198) and Adelaide (2001). APIRA is the premier interdisciplinary accounting research conference in the Asia-Pacific region, rotating in a three-year cycle with the European IPA and the New York CPA conferences.

With a reputation for academic rigor, and the participation of accountancy’s foremost thinks, APIRA 2004 promises to attract strong representation from accounting researches the world over. Some of the most prolific researchers from the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, the Asia-Pacific region, and many other countries are represented in APIRA’s International Editorial Committee. A strong interdisciplinary program of research papers and forums addressing the relationships between accounting, auditing and accountability and their social, institutional, economic and political environments will be included in the program.

This interdisciplinary accounting conference is dedicated to the advancement of accounting knowledge and practice. It provides a platform to discuss the interaction between accounting/auditing and their social, economic, institutional and political environments.

Conference sessions and papers will critique contemporary theory and practice, examine historical and interdisciplinary dimensions of accounting, debate policy alternatives, and explore new perspectives for understanding and change in the accounting discipline.

Papers may explore policy alternatives and provide new perspectives for under-standing the accounting discipline, covering the following themes:

• Accounting Communication
• Intellectual Capital
• Knowledge Management
• Risk Management
• Corporate Governance
• Social and Environmental Accounting
• Critical Financial Analysis
• Accounting and Gender and/or Feminist Theories
• Accounting and Accountability in the Public Sector
• Non-profit Organizations’ Accountability
• Accounting Policy and Standard Setting
• Corporate Regulation and Accountability
• Accounting Professions
• New Forms of Accounting and Auditing
• Auditing and Accountability: Professional and Business Ethics
• Accounting in the Third World
• Accounting and the Public Interest
• Critical, Explanatory, Oral and Visual Approaches to Accounting History
• Critical and Ethnographic Case Studies of Accounting in Action
• Accounting and Management Planning and Control
• International Accounting and Globalisation
• Accounting and Technology
• Accounting and Culture
• Accounting and the Home
• Methodological and Theoretical Issues

APIRA 2004 will be held at the Grand Hyatt Singapore, and its associated Emerging Scholars’ Colloquium (2-3 July) will be held at the beautiful Bukit Timah campus of Singapore Management University. The conference’s plenary speakers on the subjects of corporate governance and management control will include Professors Niamh Brennan (University College Dublin), Trevor Hopper (University of Manchester), and Ken Merchant (University of Southern California).
For full conference and colloquium details, access the SINGAPORE APIRA website now!
http://www.accountancy.smu.edu.sg/Apira/index.htm
or using www.Google.com, type in “APIRA 2004”

Key Dates:

• Deadline for electronic submission of papers : 30 January 2004
(only full papers considered for refereeing)
• Submission of Revised Paper : 30 April 2004
• Early Bird Conference Registration : 30 April 2004
Fees:
Early Bird Registration by : Full Registration (S$595)
30 April 2004 Full-time Postgraduate Student (S$365)
Emerging Scholar’s Colloquium (S$50)
Regular Registration after : Full Registration (S$695)
30 April 2004 Full-time Postgraduate Student (S$415)
Emerging Scholar’s Colloquium (S$60)
For further enquiries, please contact:
Ms Adelene Ang or Professor Lee D Parker
Singapore Management University The University of Adelaide
Email: aang@smu.edu.sg Email: aaaj@commerce.adelaide.edu.au
Conference co-chairs:
Professor Lee D Parker Associate Professor Low Aik Meng
The University of Adelaide Singapore Management University
Email: aaaj@commerce.adelaide.edu.au Email: amlow@smu.edu.sg

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Academy of Accounting Historians and the Public Interest Section of the American Accounting Association are jointly sponsoring a one-day conference immediately preceding the Orlando National Convention of the AAA.
CONFERENCE PARTICULARS
Date: Saturday, August 7, 2004 Venue: Orlando Marriott (AAA conference headquarters)
Time: 9:00AM-4:00PM
Cost: approximately $35 (breakeven)
CPE: Yes

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Papers may be submitted on any subject appropriate for the two sponsoring organizations. They should conform to the style requirements of either of the two journals mentioned below. Special consideration will be given to history papers that relate to issues of public interest and to public-interest papers that reference history. Typical topics might relate to accounting’s role in increasing accountability and transparency in democratic societies and how the public interest has been served or impaired historically by the actions of accounting practitioners. Authors of accepted papers will be urged to submit their work to the journals of the two sponsoring organizations – the Accounting Historians Journal and Accounting and the Public Interest.
Papers should be submitted by June 1, 2004 in electronic form only, prepared using Microsoft Word. Papers should be e-mailed to:
History Public Interest
Professor Richard Fleischman Professor C. Richard Baker
c/o Department of Accountancy c/o Department of Accounting & Finance
John Carroll University University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth
University Heights, OH 44118 North Dartmouth, MA 02747
(fleischman@jcu.edu) (rbaker@umassd.edu)
For further information, contact either Dick Fleischman at 216-397-4443 or Richard Baker at 508-999-9243.

THE ACADEMY OF ACCOUNTING HISTORIANS APPLICATION FOR 2003 MEMBERSHIP

Individual Membership: $45.00
Student Membership: $10.00
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