Conference description and information
Thursday April 25th - Saturday April 27th, 2002
Baruch College: City University
of New York
AIMS AND SCOPE
The 2002 Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference provides a forum for exploring critical research on emerging issues in accounting and auditing. It brings together interested faculty, professionals, policy makers, accounting students and others concerned with professional and regulatory issues in the corporate, university, government, and financial sectors.
TOPICS AND THEMES
The conference seeks original contributions that examine issues of organizational and social accountability which presently face professionals, educators, and scholars. Several "Boutique" session-streams are planned, following the genre of previous conferences:
The following are illustrative, but not exhaustive, of the general conference themes: Problems facing Emerging Scholars, Commodifying practice and teaching; Race & Class; Multicultural Issues; Poetry of Accounting; Institutional Failures - Litigation, Malpractice &Competition; Impact of Information Technologies; Social Audits, Accounting & the State; Ecology & Green Accounting; Gender Relations & Feminist Theories; Globalization & International Issues; Critical Histories -Auditing as Social Dialogue; Public Sector and Healthcare Issues; New Technologies in teaching & practice; Management Accounting Developments; Regulation, standard setting and capital markets; Critical Ethnographies.
LOCATION AND DATES
The conference will be held at the Baruch College conference facilities from Thursday through Saturday, April 25-27, 2002, beginning with the all-day Emerging Scholars program and an evening reception on Thursday, and ending late Saturday afternoon (allowing visitors to enjoy the city and its facilities for the remainder of the weekend).
SUBMISSION DEADLINES AND PUBLICATION SUPPORT
Complete manuscripts, working papers, abstracts and panel proposals are welcome. Conference submissions: 3.5" disk sent by regular mail (no email attachments please -- viruses!). Add 4 printed copies if you would like your work to be reviewed by the journal. Use Word format. Avoid tables, special symbols, graphs, etc. In addition, an HTML version of your paper would be appreciated (but without sub-file inserts such as jpg or gif images, tables, etc). Submissions should include the name, address, email, telephone, and FAX numbers of all authors, designating the corresponding author. Submission is taken to signify that the author(s) grants permission to have their paper loaded on the conference website. Early submissions are encouraged. The deadline is January 20, 2002. Authors will be advised of the editorial decision no later than February 25, 2002. A selection of manuscripts will be published in Critical Perspectives on Accounting, the Accounting Forum, Advances in Public Interest Accounting, and other sponsoring journals. Journal editors will contact authors independently about papers for journal consideraton.
SPONSORSHIP
Previous conferences sponsors and participants include the Critical Perspectives on Accounting Journal , Deloitte & Touche, Centre for Accounting Ethics (Binghamton University), the Public Interest Section and the Gender Section of the American Accounting Association (AAA), the Advances in Public Interest Accounting journal, Accounting Forum and the Accounting, Auditing, and Accountability Journal ( AAAJ ), and Alternative Perspectives on Financial Accounting (APFC).
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor Tony Tinker
Baruch College: Box B12-225
City University of New York
17 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10010
USA
Tel: 646-212-3175
Fax: 646-312-3161
EMail: TonyTinker@MSN.com