Abstract
We are pleased to announce the 22nd annual Financial Reporting and Business Communication (FRBC) Conference organised by the University of Bristol and the British Accounting and Finance Association’s (BAFA) Financial Accounting and Reporting Special Interest Group (FARSIG). This is the premier conference of its kind worldwide and attracts an international audience. The conference, supported by Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) charitable trusts, comprises parallel full paper with discussants, developmental paper sessions and a doctoral stream.
The conference addresses key areas of interest to accounting academics and practitioners and includes the following:
The role of financial reporting and corporate governance in capital markets;
The purpose of the modern corporate report and the effectiveness of financial reporting standards;
Accounting measurement and disclosure;
Sustainable, integrated and environmental reporting;
The composition and format of corporate reports and the role of the visual;
Corporate reporting and accountability in the private and public sectors.
Papers are invited on these topics and on all aspects of financial reporting and business communication and include empirical, theoretical and conceptual papers as well as case studies and experimental studies.
Papers can be either:
Please note: Discussants will only be allocated to full paper submissions, and we expect that all submitters of full papers will be prepared to act as discussants.
As part of the main conference, we intend to run streams for papers on Social and Environmental Disclosure and Integrated Reporting (organiser: Stuart Cooper, Bristol) and the History of Accounting (organiser: David Oldroyd, Newcastle). Please indicate on your submission if you want your paper considered for one of these two streams. Otherwise it will be allocated to the general stream of the conference with parallel sessions organised around relevant research areas.