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EDITORIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: SUBMISSIONS
Please note that from 1 July 2005
new submissions should be sent to
the incoming editor:
Professor Richard K. Fleischman
Boler School of Business
John Carroll University
University Heights
OH 44118
USA

Accounting Historians Journal Prize Winners 2004
Following a vote by the members of the editorial
board, the prize for best paper in Volume 31 is
awarded to:
Warwick Funnell
for his article
“Accounting and the Pursuit of Utopia: The Possibility of Perfection in Paraguay”
which appeared in the June issue.
The following authors were also highly commended:
Rob Bryer
for his article
“The Roots of Modern Capitalism:
A Marxist Accounting History of the Origins
and Consequences of Capitalistic Landlords
in England”
which appeared in the June issue
and Sally M. Schultz and Joan Hollister
for their article
“Single-Entry Accounting in Early America: The Accounts of the Hasbrouck Family” which appeared in the June issue.

Academy of Accounting Historians 2005 Research Conference jointly sponsored with
The Accounting Hall of Fame
October 6, 2005 through October 8, 2005
Columbus, Ohio, USA

The theme of the 2005 conference is “The Accounting Profes-sion in Transition: Historical and Contemporary Perspec-tives on Change.” Concurrent paper sessions will address both historical and public policy issues related to recent and continu-ing change in the accounting profession and its regulatory and market environment, both in the United States and around the world. In addition to Concurrent Paper Sessions, the program plan includes speeches by Don Nicolaisen (Chief Accountant of the SEC) and Bill Gradison (Member of the PCAOB) plus panel discussions chaired by Art Wyatt (University of Illinois), Bill Kinney (University of Texas), Gary Previts (Case Western Reserve University) and Joel Demski (University of Florida), that will provide perspectives on business reporting, auditing, public policy, and accounting education. Panelists will include senior members of accounting academe and the accounting profession. The conference will begin on Thursday evening, October 6, 2005, with a reception, and conclude on Saturday, October 8, 2005, with a luncheon. The registration form appears on the second page of this announcement.

Concurrent Paper Sessions: Papers are invited that develop his-torical and contemporary perspectives on the ongoing evolution of the accounting profession, including changes in business re-porting, auditing, corporate governance, and international ac-counting. The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2005 but earlier submissions would be appreciated. Papers should include an abstract of approximately 50 words. Papers should be sent in both paper and electronic form (the latter via e-mail if possible) to Dan Jensen at: Jensen. 7@osu.edu; Dan Jensen, Department of Accounting and MIS, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, 2100 Neil Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210. Papers will be reviewed for inclusion in the conference by a board of reviewers including Anil Arya of Ohio State University, Richard Fleischman of John Carroll University, Edward N. Coffman of Virginia Commonwealth University, David Dennis of Otterbein University, Ann Gabriel of Ohio University, Laura MacDonald of Wilfred Laurier University (Canada), Alan G.

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Mayper of University of North Texas, James McKinney of Howard University, and Alan Reinstein of Wayne State University.
The City: Columbus is the capital of the State of Ohio. Over 1.25 million people live in the metropolitan area, one of the fastest growing in the nation. It is home to The Ohio State University and 15 other colleges and universities. It is also home to major corporations including Nationwide Insurance, American Electric Power, The Limited, and Wendy’s. A typical October day in Columbus has temperatures ranging from 60-80 degrees F with light winds.

Hotel Reservations: The conference will be held at the The Blackwell Inn on Ohio State University’s campus (2110 Tuttle Park Place at corner of Tuttle Park Place and Woodruff, Columbus, Ohio 43210). Hotel reservations should be made directly with The Blackwell (toll free: 866-247-4003; local: 614-247-4000). Indicate that you are attending the “Accounting Historians/OSU Accounting Hall of Fame Conference;” the special rate for the conference is approximately $120 per night (plus taxes). In addition, registrations can be made on-line at http:// www.theblackwell.com; use the group code ACCOUN1005 to receive the special rate. Valet parking service is available at the main entrance to the hotel for a nominal charge. The cutoff date for reservation requests is Wednesday, August 31, 2005.

Transportation from Airport: The Blackwell Inn is about 20 minutes from Port Columbus International Airport. The Blackwell operates a courtesy shuttle service. Taxi fares run about $25.

Doctoral Students: The registration fee for accounting doctoral students will be waived. In addition, four travel grants of up to $250 each are offered subject matching by the student’s home institution. Details are available from Dan Jensen (614-292-2529 or Jensen.7@osu.edu).

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

17th Annual Conference on
Accounting, Business & Financial History at Cardiff Business School 15-16 September 2005
Announcement of Conference Guest Speaker – Warwick Funnell

Theoretical, empirical and review papers are welcomed in all areas of accounting, business and financial history.
The conference provides delegates with the opportunity of presenting and dis-cussing, in an informal setting, papers ranging from early working drafts to fully developed manuscripts. The format of the conference allows approximately 40 minutes for presentation and discussion in order to help achieve worthwhile feedback from those attending.

In the past, many papers presented at Cardiff have subsequently appeared in print in Accounting, Business and Financial History, edited by John Richard (Dick) Edwards and Trevor Boyns, or in another of the full range of international, refereed academic accounting, business and economic history journals.
The conference will be held at Aberdare Hall, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF14 3UX, UK, from lunchtime on Thursday, 15 September 2005 to mid-afternoon on Friday, 16 September 2005.

The fully inclusive conference fee (covering all meals, the conference dinner on Thursday and accommodation) is £120.
Contact Debbie Harris, Cardiff Business School, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
Tel +44 (0)29 2087 5730 Fax +44 (0)29 2087 4419 Email: HarrisDL@cardiff.ac.uk

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