APMAA 2018 Conference Call for Paper

    The APMAA 2018 (14th) Annual Conference will be held on October 29^th -November 1^st , 2018 in Tokyo. The conference theme for the APMAA 2018 (14th) is “The Forefront of Management Accounting:  Research and Practices” (a tentative theme).   

    We welcome academia and practitioners around the world to join us in the 14th APMAA conference. Manuscripts in the following areas (but is not limited to) are welcomed：
　

  Management Accounting Topics

　・   Cost Management

　・ Management Accounting and Culture

　・   Management Control

　・  Multinational Enterprises

　・  Performance Evaluation

　・  Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

　・   State-owned Companies and Non-profit Organizations 
　

     Interdisciplinary Topics

　・ Accounting Education

　・ Accounting History

　・ Contracting and Incentives

　・ Corporate Governance

　・ Financial Analysis

　・ Intangibles

　・ Intellectual Capital and Innovation

　・ Internal Control and Ethical Issues

　・ Methodological and Theoretical Issues

　・ Organizational Behavior and Society  

　・ Risk Management

　・ Social and Environmental Accounting

    The Paper Submission Deadline is scheduled for July 10^th, 2018. The submitting authors will be notified of the acceptance decision by September 1^st, 2018. All submissions are subject to a double-blind review process organized by the Review Committee consisting of a panel of leading scholars. 

   Submitted Online

    Your paper for the APMAA 2018 (14th) should be submitted from the paper submission page. We will open the page on May 1^st , 2018). 

    Formatting

    All manuscripts should be in Times New Roman, font size 12, single–spaced with an abstract of 200-300 words. Include up to 5 keywords. An abstract should be on a separate page immediately preceding the text.

    Manuscripts should be as concise as the subject and research method permit. The length of text should be over 5,000 but not exceed 10,000 words.   

    All papers will be double blind reviewed. To promote anonymous review, authors should not identify themselves directly or indirectly in their paper. Single authors should not use the editorial “we.” Referencing should follow the APA style (Refer to http://www.apastyle.org).

The cover page should contain the title of the paper (all bold capitals), the author’s name (first name, initial (s), and family name), title and affiliation, fax and phone numbers, and email address.   

    Please indicate clearly the corresponding author. 

    Notification:

　1) All submitted articles should report original, previously unpublished research results, experimental or theoretical.

　2) The final papers must be submitted before the deadline and the version of your submission must be in the requested format.

　3) Official language is English in paper and presenting.

　4) At least one of the authors should register (pay the participation fee) for the conference before September 15^th, 2018, and attend as well as present the paper in the conference.  
　

    If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact:

    Susumu Ueno (ueno@konan-u.ac.jp) APMAA Board Chair

    Shoichiro Hosomi (hosomi@tmu.ac.jp) Chair of APMAA 2018 Doctoral Colloquium