160 Paper Submissions to the 2019 Doha Conference

Near East 50: Qatar (44), Jordan (2), Turkey (1), Kuwait (1), Oman (1), Iraq (1))

Asia 46:　Japan(15), Indonesia (13) ,Malaysia (7), China (5), Thailand (2), Taiwan (2), Nepal (1) ,Vietnam ( 1)

Europe 37:　UK(24), Poland (4), ,France (4),Sweden (2), Estonia (1), Italy (1), Germany (1)

Africa10:　Tunisia(6), Algeria (2), Nigeria (1), Uganda (1)

Oceania 10:　Australia (10)

North America7:　USA (4), Canada (3)

2019-2010 Annual Conference Statistics　(Need to re-examine 2019 statistics)　

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Doha

Tokyo

Shang-hai

Taipei

  Bali

Bang-

 kok

Nagoya

Xiamen

Shah-Alam

Taipei

Ph.D. Colloquium Presentations

19

12

12

7

24

6

6

3

10

   0

Parallel sessions

104

91+4

48

70

108

51

56

48?

42

 24

Talks/Panel sessions

3+24

6+3

6+3

6

4

6

7

7

16

5

Reception

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

           0

0

　0

Total Presentations

150

116

69

83

136

64

69

55?

68

29

International participants

117

106

 63

80

49

61

53

43

62

34

Paid Local participants

0

105

43

3

63

10

56

?

?

26

Total Paid participants

85

211

106

83

112

71

109

40

62

60

No Fee

275

50 

 55

70

50

48

39

50

88

40

Total participants

360

261

 161

153

162

119

148

93

150

 100

Words from the APMAA 2019 Conference Chairs

It is a great pleasure to see our association growing internationally and even accommodating researchers from other areas related to management accounting applications, like finance and management. In the name of the organizing committee, we are pleased to invite you to the APMAA 15^th annual conference in Doha that will be hosted by the College of Business and Economics, Qatar University.

Since this is the first time for the APMAA conference to take place in the Gulf cooperation Council (GCC), we are enthusiastic and eagerly working at Qatar University with the APMAA board and international scholars to make the APMAA 2019 conference an international destination for Accounting and Finance scholars.

The main theme of the conference will be “Management Accounting and Finance in the 21^st Century: Challenges and Perspectives”. Manuscripts covering any topical area of management accounting and finance will also be welcomed. They can be theoretical, teaching-based or practice-oriented.

The scope of the APMAA 2019 conference will be to celebrate the new theoretical and practical developments in management accounting and managerial finance of the 21^st century with particular attention to Asia-Pacific and GCC accounting issues. In fact, the GCC oil-based economy is in transition to a more sustainable knowledge-based economic model. This transformation creates an eager motivation to actively investigate contemporary issues related to management accounting and finance.

We hope the APMAA 2019 conference will be an opportunity for you to have a productive and an unforgettable experience in Doha. Meanwhile, we are looking forward to seeing you in November 2019.

APMAA 2019 Conference Call for Paper 

Theme and Scope 

The main theme of the conference will be “Management Accounting and Finance in the 21st Century: Chal- lenges and Perspectives”. Manuscripts covering many topical areas of management accounting and finance will also be welcomed. They can be theoretical, teaching-based or practice-oriented.

The scope of the APMAA 2019 conference will be to celebrate the new theoretical and practical developments in management accounting and managerial finance of the 21st century with particular attention to Asia-Pacific and GCC accounting issues. In fact, the GCC oil-based economy is in transition to a more sustainable knowledge-based economic model. This transformation creates an eager motivation to actively investigate contemporary issues related to management accounting and finance.

Tracks

Ø  Track 1: Strategic Management Accounting:

•                     SMA techniques in SMEs

•                     Factors influencing deployment of SMA techniques

•                     Data analytics and SMA 

•                     Strategic Management Accounting and Organizational Culture

Ø  Track 2: Performance Measurement:

•                     Performance Measurement Systems

•                     Strategic Planning and Performance Measurement

•                     Performance Appraisal and Incentives

Ø  Track 3: Role of Management Accountants in different Organizations

•                     Management Accounting for Multinational Enterprises

•                     Management Accounting for the Public Sector and Non-profit Organizations

•                     Management Accounting for State-owned Companies

•                     Management Accounting for Small-Medium Enterprises

Ø  Track 4: Business Ethics and Internal Control

•                     Corporate Governance

•                     Enterprise Resource Planning

•                     Fraud Detection and Prevention

•                     Business Ethics

•                     Internal Control and Accountability

Ø  Track 5: Business Reporting and Communication:

•                     Financial Reporting and Business Communication

•                     Corporate Social Responsibility

•                     Social, Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting

•                     Accounting Information Systems

Ø  Track 6: Islamic Accounting and Islamic Finance

•                     Islamic Accounting

•                     Islamic Finance/ banking

Ø  Track 7: Financial Markets and Economic Growth

•                     Stock Markets and Capital Asset Pricing Models

•                     Banking performance and credit risk

•                     Sustainable economic growth in developing countries

•                     Risk Management 

Ø  Track 8: Multi-Criteria Decision-making and Accounting

Ø  Track 9: Management accounting and Finance In Emerging Economies:

•                     Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management

•                     Management accounting and finance in SMEs in emerging economies

•                     Management accounting and finance in transforming public sector in emerging economies

•                     The behavioral aspects behind management accounting practices in emerging economies.

Ø  Track 10: Other Accounting and Finance Issues

The Paper Submission Deadline is scheduled for August June 1st, 2019. The submitting authors will be notified of the acceptance decision by September 1^st, 2019. All submissions are subject to a double-blind review process organized by the Review Committee consisting of a panel of leading scholars. 

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, 2019 and attend as well as present the paper in the conference.  
　

    If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact:
Dr. Mohammed Elgammal (m.elgammal@qu.edu.qa) Chair of APMAA Doha 2019 Conference

2019 Doctoral Colloquium Call for Papers 
　

The main objective of the APMAA 2019 Doctoral Colloquium is to offer an opportunity for PhD students to receive high-quality feedback from external reviewers and to directly interact with peers, exchange ideas, discuss concepts, and establish (in) formal cooperation with various research groups. Doctoral students and candidates at all stages are welcome to submit a thesis-position paper, but preference will be given to students in the earlier stages of their doctoral work. Participants will be expected to give short and informal presentations of their work during the Colloquium, to be followed by a panel-like discussion.
　

    Doctoral students interested in participating on the doctoral colloquium should submit a single PDF file consisting of:

　1 A one-page research statement on the research field you will pursue. If you are at the doctoral dissertation stage, this statement should focus on the dissertation.

　2. A letter of recommendation from your primary dissertation advisor, who should state what you could contribute as well as gain from the doctoral consortium.

　3. Your paper (The text should be about 4,000- 8,000 words.).

    Your paper for the APMAA 2019 Doctoral Colloquium submitted paper should clearly state:

    ・An overview of related work in the area of the doctoral work

    ・The original key idea/hypothesis of the thesis

    ・The problem domain and the specific problem addressed

    ・Methodological approach

    ・The expected contributions

    ・Research carried out 
　

    The colloquium chairs will arrange the selection of the accepted papers using a peer review process. The accepted papers will be published in the Doctoral Colloquium proceedings. At least one of the authors should register (pay the participation fee) for the conference before September 15^th, 2019 and attend as well as present the paper in the conference. Otherwise, the paper will not be included in the conference program and proceedings. 

In addition, the colloquium will offer 3 workshops for PhD students

• Session 1: Qualitative research methods for business students (Professor Aziz Jaafar Director of PhD program at

Bangor Business School and Dr. Fadi Alkaraan , University of Lincoln).

• Session 2: Quantitative research methods for business students (Professor Basil Al-Najjar, Huddersfield University)

• Session 3: Current topics in Accounting and Finance, (Professor Khaled Hussainey, University of Portsmouth and

Professor David McMillan, Stirling University).

Tentative Conference Program
　

Conference Organizing Committee
　

�  Chair: Dr.  Khalid Al-Abdulqader, Dean of CBE, Qatar University, khld-shams@qu.edu.qa

�  Chair: Dr. Mohammed Elgammal  Finance and Economics Department , m.elgammal@qu.edu.qa

�  Prof. Belaid Aouni, Associate  Dean for Research and Graduate Programs , Chair of Financial committee- Email: belaid.aouni@qu.edu.qa

�  Professor. Said Elbanna, Department of Management and Marketing -selbanna@qu.edu.qa

�  Dr. Emad Awadallah, Accounting and Information Systems Department- emad.awadallah@qu.edu.qa

�  Dr. Mohamed Elbashir, Chair of Scientific Committee,  Accounting and Information Systems Department, mohamed.elbashir@qu.edu.qa

�  Dr. Rami Zeitun, Finance and Economics Department, rami.zeitun@qu.edu.qa

�  Dr. Ousama Anam, Department of Accounting and Information Systems - ousama.anam@qu.edu.qa

�  Dr. Ghassan H. Mardini , Accounting and Information Systems Department-  Ghassan.Mardini@qu.edu.qa

�  Dr. Karim Al-Yafi , Chair of Logistic committee, Accounting and Information Systems Department- karim.alyafi@qu.edu

�  Dr. Abdulsamad Mohammed, Accounting and Information Systems Department, alazzani@qu.edu.qa

Welcome Message from the Chair of the Board of Directors
of the Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Association (APMAA)

 The Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Association (APMAA) holds its 15th Annual Conference (APMAA 2019) at Qatar University (OU), in Doha from November 2^nd (Saturday) to 5th (Tuesday), 2019. The conference is organized by the College of Business and Economics (CBE), Qatar University, under the leadership of Dr. Khalid Al- Abdulqader and Dr. Mohammed Elgammal, Chairs of the APMAA 2019 Annual Conference Organizing Committee. This is the first time for APMAA to hold its annual conference in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Established in May 1981, the GCC is a political and economic alliance of six Middle Eastern countries: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Oman. As everyone knows, Qatar is a high-income economy, backed by the world third-largest natural-gas reserves and oil reserves. The country is classified by the UN as a country of very high human development. Qatar will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. 

Qatar University is the main state university in Qatar, hosting nine colleges – Arts and Sciences, Business and Economics, Education, Engineering, Law, Sharia and Islamic Studies, Pharmacy, College of Health Science, and College of Medicine. QU currently boasts a population of over 20,000 students. The University has a growing number of specialists, Masters and Ph.D. programs, and enjoys multiple significant research successes. In fact, the university ranked at No. 393 in the 2018 QS World University Ranking. We, directors of APMAA, are all excited about having APMAA 2019 at Qatar University, the most respected university in Qatar. 

The Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Association, founded in 2004, has grown into one of the world’s leading associations of scholars and specialists in the field of management accounting. The main goal of the APMAA annual conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners to exchange theories, ideas, techniques and experiences relating to all aspects of management and business accounting. Our annual conferences provide a very good opportunity for our members to interact face-to-face with experts from all over the world. 

Qatar University applied to be the APMAA 2019 conference venue at the APMAA 2015 board meeting held at Warmadewa University Bali, Indonesia, and we unanimously approved. Immediately after receiving an approval notification, the conference organizing team at the CBE started to prepare for APMAA 2019.  I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the dedication of all organizing team members in making this conference an attractive one. I am confident that the APMAA 2019 conference, with the main theme of the conference, “Management Accounting and Finance in the 21st Century: Challenges and Perspectives,” will fascinates participants from all over the world. There is no doubt that the conference in Doha will be one of the most fantastic and impressive meetings in APMAA’s history. 

I am looking forward to seeing you at Qatar University in November 2019.

Susumu Ueno
Chair, Board of Directors, Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Association
Professor Emeritus, Konan University, Japan