1. APMAA 2023 Conference (tentative) Call for Papers (Academic Paper Sessions)

The APMAA 2023 Annual Conference tentative theme is "Challenges and Opportunities to Management Accounting in the Digital Era." Digitalization seems to have disrupted the accounting domain. Digital technologies such as big data, cloud, blockchain, and artificial intelligence look like they will influence accounting, auditing compliance practice, and financial procedures. Today, we observe the automation and robotization of routine processes, the introduction of business intelligence, and the application of data analytics. Management accountants use data analytics to support value creation, which can be through increasing efficiency, improving profitability and cash flow, but also through customer management, innovation, and intellectual property. However, there seems to be insufficient academic research about digitalization in accounting and its impact on practices, education, and research. Thus, APMAA 2023 highly welcomes your research on this subject area.

Academic paper sessions have always been the center of the APMAA annual conferences. Of course, as in every other year, the 2023 Academic Paper Sessions provide subject areas that encompass various fields and accept manuscripts of almost any accounting subject.

Primary and secondary subject areas of the Academic Paper Sessions

01. Management Accounting: Recent Themes and Directions for a Digital Future

-Accounting in a Digital era

-AI and robotic process automation in Accounting and Auditing

-Data Science and Analytics in Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation 

-Cloud accounting and Cyber security

-Accounting education and curriculum in a Digital era

-Accounting research in a Digital era

-Others

02. Cost management and Manufacturing Industries

-Cost accounting

-Supply chain management

-Production management 

-The changing roles of management accounting in Industry 4.0

03. Performance Management

-Performance Management Systems and Budgeting in an uncertainty environment

-Data analytics, Enterprise Planning, and Performance Management

-Performance Appraisal and Incentives

-Multi-Criteria Decision-Making and Accounting

-Impacts of management accounting practices on forecast-based business valuation

04. Strategic Management Accounting

-Factors influencing the deployment of SMA techniques

-Strategic Planning and Performance Management

-Profit-sharing within a supply chain

-Accounting for servitization business models

-Accounting for start-up and unicorn companies

-Intellectual Capital, Intangibles, and Knowledge Management

05. Management Accounting for Multinational Enterprises

-Transfer pricing

-International Tax planning

-Performance management in MNEs

-Management accounting roles and Risk management in a borderless business environment

06. Management Accounting for State-owned Companies, Public Sector, and Non-profit Organizations (NPOs)

-Management accounting in state enterprises

-Open data management for the government

-Management accounting for the third sector (NPOs and civil societies)

07. Management Accounting for SMEs and Family Businesses

-Decision Making in Publicly Traded vs. Private Companies

-Issues of Business continuity and succession 

-Tax planning for the family business

08. Business Reporting and Communication

-Financial Reporting and Business Communication

-Impact of IFRS on corporate management

-Corporate Social Responsibility Accounting

-Social, Environmental and Sustainability Management (SDGs) Accounting

09. Business Ethics and Internal Control

-Internal Control and Accountability

-Business Ethics, and Fraud Prevention and Detection

-Corporate Governance

10. Mathematical Models in Accounting

-Contract Theory

-Capital Market

-Disclosure

-Product Market Competition

11. Comparative (Cross-cultural) Management Accounting

-Cross-cultural comparison

-Cross-national comparison

12. Management Accounting of Islamic Business

-Management Accounting of Islamic Finance and Banking

-Electronic Transactions in Islamic Banks and Markets

-Islamic Financial Industries and Sustainable Development

-Sukuk, Wakaf, and Zakat management

13. Management Accounting Education and History

-Accounting Education

-History of Accounting discipline

-History of Management Accounting practices

14. Other Management Accounting Issue

1. All submitted manuscripts should report original, unpublished research results.

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2. The official language of APMAA 2023 is English in both writing and presentation. If English is not your mother tongue (first language), check your draft using a professional editor and/or with a spelling and grammar matching application such as Grammarly before submitting your manuscript. You can download a free version and install it on your PC. If your document is hard to read, we will decline it before sending it to our reviewer.

3. Manuscripts should follow the structure of a traditional research paper, i.e., you will need to adjust your document to the academic format so that it can be accepted . An empirical research paper's typical organization is Title, Abstract, Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, and References (proceedings papers (sakura.ne.jp)).

4. Use Times New Roman font with font size 12, page size A4, single-spaced.

5. Abstract should be 200-300 words on a separate page immediately preceding the text. Show five keywords below the abstract. The text should be as concise as the subject and research method permit. To be considered, the text length should be over 5,000 but usually not exceed 10,000 words.

6. The cover page should contain the title of the paper, the author's name (first name, initial(s), and family name), position, and affiliation (capitalize the first character of each word). Also, it should contain email addresses and phone numbers. Please indicate the corresponding author. About the detailed information for formatting, please follow the

    2022 Guideline for Authors (Formatting and Template) on this page.

7. To promote anonymous review, authors should not identify themselves directly or indirectly in their writing.

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8. Author(s) should not use the pronoun "I" or "we." Instead, please use the terms "this study" or "this research". Referencing should follow the APA style (http://www.apastyle.org).

9. Each author registering for the conference is limited to two (2) full-length paper submissions (including co-author papers) for the Academic Paper Sessions.

10. Authors who received a "Minor Revision" or "Major Revision" notification are expected to resubmit their revised (final) manuscripts before a specified date (the temporal deadline is August 20) to get an "Accept" notification by September 1. Our review team engages in review on a first-come-first-served basis.

11. All authors of accepted manuscripts must complete and submit their camera-ready papers for inclusion in the Proceedings and abstracts for the Book of Abstracts before the due date (Sep.15, 2022). Authors can choose a full-length paper or executive summary submission for the conference proceedings. Authors, in principle, cannot make their presentations if they refuse to have their camera-ready papers included in the Proceedings.

Executive summaries are more extended than abstracts, running 3–7 pages (around 1500-2,000 words). They summarize the research output's purpose, methods, results, and conclusions, such that someone who reads only the summary can obtain a solid understanding of the research as a whole.

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12. To attend and present their papers, at least one of the authors (including the presenter) must register (pay the participation fee) for the Conference before September 15, 2023.

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2. APMAA 2023 Doctoral Colloquium (tentative) Call for Papers

We hold the 2023 Doctoral Colloquium in conjunction with the APMAA 2023 Conference. Our Doctoral Colloquium will offer doctoral students an opportunity to receive high-quality feedback from external advisers (mentors), interact with peers, exchange ideas, discuss concepts, and establish (in) formal cooperation with various research groups. In mentorship, a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person. The mentors comprise a group of international professors.

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. Doctoral students interested in participating in the Doctoral Colloquium should submit a single file (in both PDF and Word) consisting of:

1. An introductory letter in which you indicate what you wish to obtain from the Doctoral Colloquium and what you will be bringing to the Doctoral Colloquium.

2. A one-page research statement in the research field you will pursue. This statement should focus on the dissertation if you are at the doctoral dissertation stage.

3. Your CV.

4. A letter of recommendation from your primary dissertation advisor should state what you could contribute and gain from the doctoral consortium.

5. Your research paper

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The submitted thesis-position paper should clearly state:

 1. An overview of related work in the area of the doctoral work

2. The original fundamental idea/research questions/hypothesis of the thesis

3. The problem domain and the specific problem addressed

4. Methodological approach

5. The expected contributions

6. Research carried out

The paper content follows a generic thesis structure, including abstract, keywords, introduction with research question, related work, theory, methodology, and preliminary results. A student at an earlier stage can present the original key idea or hypothesis that they would like to develop, including the problem domain and the specific problem addressed; An overview of related work in the area of the Doctoral work; a possible methodological approach and then elaborate on the specific paper they would like to present. It can be a case study, a pilot work discussion, a proposed data analysis etc.

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Notification:

1. The first author should be a doctoral student responsible for researching the topic. If the supervisor becomes a co-author, he or she should be a second or subsequent author.

2. The official language is English in both writing and presentation. If English is not your mother tongue (first language), check your draft by employing a professional editor and/or with a spelling and grammar matching application such as Grammarly before submitting your manuscript. You can download a free version on a webpage and install it on your PC. If your document is hard to read, we will decline it before sending it to our reviewer.
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3. The abstract should be 200-300 words on a separate page immediately preceding the text. Show five keywords below the abstract. The text should be as concise as the subject and research method permits. The text length should be about 4,000- 8,000 words. (If not, Desk Rejected). Use Times New Roman font with font size 12, page size A4, single-spaced. About the detailed information for formatting, please follow the  

4. The colloquium chairs will arrange the selection of the accepted papers using a peer-review process.

5. Accepted manuscripts whose first author (doctoral student) will have completed registration and submission of the camera-ready full-length paper before the due date (Sep.15, 2022) will be included in the in-house proceedings (a collection of camera-ready full-length papers). Authors, in principle, cannot make their presentations if they refuse to have their full-length papers included in the conference proceedings. Alternatively, authors can submit a short camera-ready paper whose length is no less than 4,000 words when they get permission beforehand from the Doctoral Colloquium Chair.

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