NOTICEBOARD

Eleventh Accounting and Management History Conference
Thursday 17th and Friday 18th March 2005 ASSOCIATION OF FRANCOPHONE DE COMPTABILITE
With the support of the Research Centre in Control and
International Accounting (CRECCI) at the University of Bordeaux (Institute of Management)
Businesses, Accounting Data and Law

The University of Bordeaux Montesquieu and the Research Centre in Control and International Accounting will hold the 11th Accounting and Management History Conference, with the support of the Association Francophone de Comptabilité, in March 2005.

The University of Bordeaux is one of France’s oldest universities: Burdigala already had a Roman University in the fifth century A.D. and offered specialised training in grammar and the art of rhetorical speech for the whole Atlantic coast area. Being the equivalent of Narbonne, it gained its legal status of Universitas famosa in 1441, when Henri VI, 15th King of England (1422-1461) and the 207th Pope, Eugène IV (elected on the 11th March 1431, died on the 23rd February 1447) officially patronised it. The University continued to function until it was closed down by the municipality of Bordeaux in 1792, following the French Revolution. This decision was promulgated by the law of the 15th September 1793, and confirmed by the decree of the 25th February 1795. The University was reopened in 1870. The School of Law, in which the Institute of Management will continue to be based for several more months, was inaugurated in 1873. In 1969, the Schools of Law and Science founded the University of Bordeaux I.

The University of Bordeaux has trained Lawyers of international renown. Montesquieu, whose name was given to the School of Management, Law and Economics, was the most prominent. More recently, Léon Duguit, who is inter-nationally renowned, Maurice Duverger and many others have started their careers in Bordeaux. Some of these Lawyers have turned their attentions towards accounting. Pierre Boucher, author of “Science des négocians et des teneurs de livres” was inspired by Mathieu de La Porte Gobain, author of three famous books on arithmetics and accounting. One could also cite Moulinier, author of “Grand trésor des marchands” or J. Rodrigues, who severely criticised E.T. Jones. Another important point to remember is that the first French Accounting Plan was printed in Bordeaux, in 1943, by Delmas editions, next to the current Institute of Management.

In many areas, Lawyers and Accountants share similar perspectives. At the same time, there are points of divergence. The conference will provide a forum in which delegates can interact and network, with the topic areas focussing on businesses, law and accounting from a historical perspective. Papers are welcome on issues relating to any field linked to this subject area. Three sub-topics are proposed:

– Businesses and Law
– Businesses and Accounting
– Lawyers and Accountants: Parallel paths and points of divergence

Simultaneous translation will be available during conference sessions, so papers may be presented in French or in English.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Nicolas Berland, Henri Bouquin, Trevor Boyns, Bernard Colasse, Jean-Guy Degos, Serge Evraert, Patrick Fridenson, Jacques Igalens, Yannick Lemarchand, Cheryl McWatters, Marc Nikitin, Robert Parker, Christian Prat Dit Hauret, Gary John Previts, Michèle Saboly, Stéphane Trébucq.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Jean-Guy DEGOS, Serge EVRAERT, Christian PRAT DIT HAURET, Stéphane TREBUCQ (CRECCI, University of Montesquieu – Bordeaux IV)

Eleventh World Congress of Accounting Historians NANTES (FRANCE) 19-22 JULY 2006
First Announcement Call for Papers

Six years after the Madrid Congress in 2000, the WCAH will return to Europe, after stops in Melbourne in 2002 and St. Louis in 2004. In fact in July 2006, the Eleventh World Congress of Accounting History will take place in Nantes, and France will welcome this gathering for the first time.
Ideally situated, Nantes is only two hours from Paris by TGV (the high speed train with 20 round trips daily) and approximately two hours by plane from the majority of European Capitals. Gateway to Brittany and its ports, it is equally very close to a number of major tourist sites, such as Mont Saint-Michel, le Puy du Fou, the Futuroscope, and the “Chateaux of the Loire”.

Settled over two millennia ago on the banks of the Loire, fifty kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean, Nantes was, during the middle ages, the capital of the Duchy of Bretagne. In the eighteenth century, the city became the great merchant port of the French crown, opening commercial and maritime routes of the Americas and Africa. The leading industrial shipyards of the western half of France from the nineteenth century, noted for its naval engineering and its canning industry, Nantes and the Loire estuary have developed into a leading metropolis for the service and high technology sectors. Economic capital of western France and the major French city in terms of its rate of demographic growth, Nantes draws interest not only for its economic achievements but also for its quality of life and its environment.

The Congress will take place on the campus of the University of Nantes, a few steps from the historic centre of the city and from the majority of the hotels likely to lodge congress attendees. In 1995, the Journées d’histoire de la Comptabilité et du Management, which takes place in France in March of each year, was organized for the first time in Nantes. The same year, the University of Nantes made a major acquisition of a collection of works dealing with accounting and its history, amassed by the Belgian Accounting Historian Ernest Stevelinck. Deceased in 20011, Ernest Stevelinck was the initiator and organiser of the first World Congress of Accounting Historians, which took place in Brussels in 1970. Holding the eleventh Congress in Nantes will therefore possess symbolic value and will be an opportunity to recognise his legacy.

Call for papers

Conference submissions can examine any aspect of the history of accounting, but the history of Nantes, the presence of the Stevelinck Collection, and the experience with the Journées d’histoire de la Comptabilité et du Management motivates us to encourage papers dealing with the following themes:

• Accounting and Ocean Routes: maritime trade, major commercial companies, colonialisation . . .
• 1970-2006: 36 years of accounting-history research: thematics, authors, methodologies, prospective approaches . . .
• Accounting writers: biographies, works, influence . . . privileging new research approaches and new issues . . .
• Accounting in relation to other management disciplines: strategy, management, human resources management, marketing, finance . . .
• Interdisciplinary approaches to accounting history

Manuscripts must be submitted in English, and will be reviewed by the members of the Scientific Committee. Submissions by electronic mail are acceptable.
Submissions for proposals:

The deadline for proposed manuscripts is January 15, 2006 and should be sent to:
Yannick Lemarchand
Congress Convenor
Centre de Recherches en Gestion Nantes-Atlantique CRGNA
Faculté des Sciences économiques et de gestion
Université de Nantes
BP 52331
44322 Nantes Cedex

FRANCE

Email: wcah@sc-eco.univ-nantes.fr
Authors of accepted papers will be advised at the latest by March 15, 2006.
Further information about the Eleventh WCAH will be available progressively on the Congress website: www.iae.univ-nantes.fr/1 1wcah

Accounting Business & Financial History
Call for papers (Special Issue)
Women, accounting and finance

In his study of investment in the nineteenth century, Preda comments that ‘Women are always excluded from financial discussions, on the explicit ground that they cannot understand investments’. Certainly a number of nineteenth-century commentators treated women as likely to be victims of financial chicanery: ‘the widow, the clergyman and the reckless’ were grouped as potential losers on the markets. This is consonant with the ‘separate spheres’ view of women’s history, seeing women as barred from finance as from other male domains.

Though widely held, the ‘separate spheres’ view has attracted some challenges. For some time there has been a recognition of the role of women in the accounting profession from the early twentieth century onwards. In the realms of bookkeeping, Connor has stressed the role of women in household accounting in the eighteenth century, while Walker has recently drawn attention to the extent to which women were encouraged in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to use accounting in order to run the household thriftily and effectively. He has also pointed out the role played by women as bookkeepers and cashiers in small businesses, before they started to make an entry into the professional world of accounting. Implicit here is the recognition that knowledge of accounting and financial practice was accepted as part of the skills needed of the accomplished woman, in the domestic as well as the business sphere.

It has recently been noted that women were active as investors where cir-cumstances permitted or demanded it. The range of investors ran from middle-class women who needed to stretch a small fixed income to the affluent middle-classes and aristocrats who had considerable money at their disposal. This phenomenon began in the early eighteenth century in Britain with the South Sea Bubble, and acquired momentum after the series of Companies Acts beginning in 1844 made the limited liability company a widespread vehicle for investment. Some women investors were passive, others sought opportunities on the Stock Exchange and were active in the corporate governance context. Others again had holdings in private (family) companies.

The objective of this special issue is to draw together work on the financial role of women, whether as investors, managers, advisers or employees, in the period from the eighteenth century up to the Second World War. Submissions are welcome which deal with

• women as investors
• women as accountants
• women’s financial priorities in corporate, sectorial, local, regional, national and international contexts.

Informal enquiries or offers please to either Janette Rutterford (j.rutterford@open.ac.uk) or Josephine Maltby (j.maltby@sheffield.ac.uk).
We would like to receive completed papers no later than 30 June 2005 for publication in the November 2005 edition of Accounting, Business & Financial History.

Call for Papers

The fourth Accounting History International Conference
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
7-9 September 2005

Accounting History is the journal of the Accounting History Special Interest Group of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand. The conference will feature papers which comply with the editorial policy of Accounting History. The journal publishes quality historical papers that may be concerned with the establishment and development of accounting bodies, conventions, ideas, practices and rules. The should attempt to identify the individuals and the local, time-specific environmental factors which affected accounting, and should endeavour to assess accounting’s impact on organisational and social functioning.

Conference papers will be accepted across a wide range of topics, using a variety of approaches including biography, prosopography, business history through accounting records, institutional history, public sector accounting history, comparative international accounting history and oral history. The use of theoretical perspectives drawn from relevant disciplines such as sociology, economics and political theory is encour-aged in conducting investigative, explanatory studies of accounting’s past.

As part of the fourth Accounting History International Conference, the Accounting History Doctoral Colloquium will be held on 7 September 2005.
Submission and Review of Papers

Papers written in the English language should be submitted electronically by 31 May 2005, to: 4ahici-group@deakin.edu.au
All papers will be subject to a double-blind refereeing process and will be published on the conference website, as refereed conference proceedings, unless otherwise advised.

Notification of Acceptance

Notification of papers accepted for inclusion in the conference program will be made by 30 June 2005.
Conference information will be available through the Conference website at: http://www.eeg.uminho.pt/4AHIC

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