Fourth Asian Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting Conference

Organised by Singapore Management University (supporting organisation:Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University). In association with Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

The triennial APIRA conference now moves to the "Lion City"Singapore, following on from its predecessors in Sydney (1995), Osaka (1998) and Adelaide (2001). APIRA is the premier interdisciplinary accounting research conference in the Asia-Pacific region, rotating in a three-year cycle with the European IPA and the New York CPA conferences.

With a reputation for academic rigor, and the participation of accountancy's foremost thinkers, APIRA 2004 promises to attract strong representation from accounting researchers the world over. Some of the most prolific researchers from the UK, Europe, North America, the Asia-Pacific region, and many other countries are represented in APIRA's International Editorial Committee. A strong interdisciplinary program of research papers and forums addressing the relationships between accounting, auditing and accountability and their social,institutional, economic and political environments will be included in the program.

This interdisciplinary accounting conference is dedicated to the advancement of accounting knowledge and practice. It provides a platform to discuss the interaction between accounting/auditing and their social, economic,institutional and political environments.

Conference sessions and papers will critique contemporary theory and practice, examine historical and interdisciplinary dimensions of accounting,debate policy alternatives, and explore new perspectives for understanding and change in the accounting discipline.

Papers may explore policy alternatives and provide new perspectives for understanding the accounting discipline, covering the following themes:

• Accounting Communication

• Intellectual Capital

• Knowledge management

• Risk management

• Corporate governance

• Social and environmental accounting

• Critical financial analysis

• Accounting and gender and/or feminist theories

• Accounting and accountability in the public sector

• Non-profit organizations' accountability

• Accounting policy and standard setting

• Corporate regulation and accountability

• Accounting professions

• New Forms of accounting and auditing

• Auditing and accountability: professional and business ethics

• Accounting in the Third World

• Accounting and the public interest

• Critical, explanatory, oral and visual approaches to accounting history

• Critical and ethnographic case studies of accounting in action

• Accounting and management planning and control

• International accounting and globalisation

• Accounting and technology

• Accounting and culture

• Accounting and the home

• Methodological and theoretical issues

APIRA 2004 will be held at the Grand Hyatt Singapore, and its associated Emerging Scholars' Colloquium (2-3 July) will be held at the beautiful Bukit Timah campus of Singapore Management University. The conference's plenary speakers on the subjects of corporate governance and management control will include Professors Niamh Brennan (University College Dublin), Trevor Hopper(University of Manchester), and Ken Merchant (University of Southern California).

For full conference and colloquium details, access the SINGAPORE APIRA Web site now! http://www.accountancy.smu.edu.sg/Apira/index.htmusing www.Google.com, type in "APIRA 2004"

Key dates:Deadline for electronic submission of papers:30 January 2004 (only full papers considered for refereeing)Submission of Revised Paper: 30 April 2004Early Bird Conference Registration: 30 April 2004

Fees:Early Bird registration by 30 April 2004:Full registration (S$595)Full-time Postgraduate Student (S$365)Emerging Scholars' Colloquium (S$50);

Regular registration after 30 April 2004:Full registration (S$695)Full-time Postgraduate Student (S$415)Emerging Scholars' Colloquium (S$60)

For further enquiries, please contact:Ms Adelene Ang,Singapore Management UniversityE-mail: aang@smu.edu.sgorProfessor Lee D. Parker, The University of AdelaideE-mail: aaaj@commerce.adelaide.edu.au

Conference co-chairs:Professor Lee D. Parker, The University of AdelaideE-mail: aaaj@commerce.adelaide.edu.auAssociate Professor Low Aik Meng, Singapore Management UniversityE-mail: amlow@smu.edu.sg