Announcement

Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance Annual Conference 2016 was held at Banff, Calgary, co-organized by the School of Accounting and Finance at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University of Calgary.

The Special Editors for this conference were

Prof. Philip Joos

Tilburg School of Economics and Management

Prof. Thomas Omer

University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Prof. Linda Myers

University of Tennessee–Knoxville

Prof. Katherine Schipper

Duke University

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The following papers were selected:

Paper Title	Contact Author	Affiliation
Earnings Comparability as a Signal of Earnings Quality and Future Stock Returns: Evidence From Peer Firms’ Earnings Restatements	John Campbell	University of Georgia
Soft Information in Loan Agreements	Zahn Bozanic	The Ohio State University
(Un)intended Consequences of the Mandatory Dividend Payout: Evidence From a Natural Experiment	Ning Zhang	Queen’s University
Does the Market Punish the Many for the Sins of the Few? The Contagion Effect of Accounting Restatements for Foreign Firms Listed in the United States	Jingran Zhao	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Herding on Earnings News: The Role of Institutional Investors in Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift	George Jiang	Washington State University
How Steep Is the Audit Learning Curve? Evidence on the Effects of the Timing of Auditor Changes on Audit Quality	Linda Myers	The University of Tennessee

Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance Annual Conference 2017 was held at Dunedin, New Zealand, and was co-organized by the School of Accounting and Finance at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University of Otago.

Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance will participate in the Hawaii Accounting Research Conference meetings, January 3-5, 2018, to be held at the University of Manoa, Hawaii.

Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance Annual Symposium 2018 will be held at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad, from January 8-10, and is co-organized by The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance Annual Conference 2018 will be held at Jeju Island, Korea, from June 24-27, and is co-organized by the School of Accounting and Finance at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Institute of Business Research and Education (IBRE) at Korea University Business School. Please see Call for submissions on SSRN for further details.