AF 2012

2nd Annual International Conference on Accounting and Finance AF 2012

http://www.acc-finance.org/

Date: 21 - 22 May 2012 Venue: Hotel Fort Canning, Singapore

As financial markets integrate and business operations diversify, there is a need for adoption of common global accounting practices. This need is further intensified when inadequacies in the financial reporting system have surfaced more often than not in the recent past infringing the credibility of reported financial data. Such incidents have bought a call for a research on better alignment of corporate financial reporting requirements amongst users of financial statements.

The AF conference is a forum of communication for academics, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in the areas of accounting and finance. Through its broadly defined scope, we welcome research in areas such as accounting history, finance, financial reporting and communication methodologies, interdisciplinary perspectives on accounting, management control and public sector financial management. The AF conference provides an outlet for high-quality refereed empirical research on all aspects of accounting and finance. Purely theoretical research with the potential for empirical applications and in depth literature reviews will also be considered.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

•	Accounting Challenges – Strategic Accounting •	Management Control Systems •	Creative Accounting and Earnings Management •	Forensic Accounting and Fraud •	Tax Accounting and Fraud •	Prevention of fraud and unacceptable accounting practices •	Information security audits •	Electronic crime •	Best Practices in Corporate Governance •	Asset-liability management •	Bank assurance •	Banking crises •	Derivatives and structured financial products •	Efficiency and performance of financial institutions and bank branches •	Financing decisions of banks •	Investment banking •	Management of financial institutions •	Regulation and supervision of the banking industry, both nationally and internationally •	Technological progress and banking •	The role of central banks •	Accountability •	Accounting standards and regulations •	Environmental accounting •	Financial accounting •	Management accounting •	Risk management and internal control •	Social accounting •	Asset pricing •	Bankruptcy prediction and determinants •	Corporate finance •	Credit risk modelling and management •	Financial engineering •	Foreign exchange markets •	Law and finance •	Mergers and acquisitions •	Mutual funds management •	Portfolio management •	Regulations of financial markets •	Venture capital •	Accounting and Finance •	Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation •	Auditing Technology •	Banking, Accounting and Finance •	Behavioral Accounting and Finance •	Corporate Governance •	Critical Accounting •	Economics and Accounting •	Education Economics and Development •	Electronic Banking •	Electronic Finance •	Financial Markets and Derivatives •	Financial Services Management •	Culture and Business Management •	Managerial and Financial Accounting •	Monetary Economics and Finance •	Revenue Management •	Strategic Engineering Asset Management •	Applied Economic Studies •	Complexity in Business and Economics •	Business and Economics Engineering •	Experimental Design and Process Optimization •	Product Development

GENERAL CHAIR

Prof. the Hon. Dr. Stephen Martin Member, Board of Governors, Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF) Former Speaker Parliament of Australia Former Deputy Vice Chancellor (Strategy and Planning) Curtin University of Technology Former Pro Vice Chancellor International, Victoria University

PROGRAM CHAIR

Prof. Shailesh Gandhi (F&A Area) Chairperson, PGPX Programme IIM, Ahmedabad, India

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Prof. Jianing Fang Associate Professor Accounting Department Hagan School of Business Iona College, NY, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Prof. Roy Chandler Professor in Accounting, Cardiff Business School, United Kingdom

Prof. Dhananjay Nanda Professor, Accounting School of Business Administration University of Miami USA

Prof. Ambrish Gupta Fore School of Management New Delhi, India

Prof. Ajay Pandey Finance & Accounting IIM Ahemdabad India

Prof. Raj S. Dhankar Faculty of Management Studies University of Delhi, India

Dr. NL Ahuja Director & Professor BLS Institute of Management, India

Assoc. Prof. Nan Zhou Associate Professor of Accounting School of Management State University of New York at Binghamton

Dr. B. Charumathi Associate Professor in Finance, Department of Management Studies, School of Management Pondicherry University, India

Dr. Yanling (Fiona) GUAN Assistant Professor in Accounting School of Business The University of Hong Kong

Dr. Marco Tutino Assistant Professor in Accounting Department of Business and Law University of Roma Tre, Italy

Prof. Arvind Sudarsan Assistant Professor Management Department BITS, Pilani, India

Dr. Poonam Gupta BLS INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT India

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