Call For Papers
4th International Conference on Accounting and Finance

Corfu Island, Greece, August 29-31, 2012

Department of Accounting & Finance, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

Under the Auspices of the University of Macedonia

The Postgraduate Program of the Department of Accounting and Finance of University of Macedonia, celebrating the twenty years since the Department's establishment, is seeking papers for its upcoming conference. Authors are invited to submit theoretical and empirical papers in all categories of finance and accounting.

TOPICS: The broad topics include: Corporate finance, asset pricing, derivatives, corporate governance, market microstructure, financial intermediation, international finance, financial accounting, disclosure, valuation, forecasting, earnings management, strategic cost, international accounting etc. We plan to hold a joint finance/accounting session in which postgraduate students and Ph.D. Candidates will present their work and receive feedback from faculty in their discipline.

CONFERENCE LANGUAGE: The official language of the Conference will be English.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://eos.uom.gr/~icaf

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: Abstracts should be limited to 200 words and should include the following: Name of author(s), title, affiliation (s), full address of corresponding author(s), including their phone, fax and e-mail. Send submit your abstracts (electronic form) to the Conference Secretary:

Ipatia Konstantinidou
Department of Accounting & Finance
University of Macedonia
N. Egnatia Str. 156
54006, Thessaloniki, Greece
Tel: 0030 2310 891687
Fax: 0030 2310 891678
Email: icaf@uom.gr

DEADLINES AND MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION: Abstracts submitted for consideration should reach the Organising Committee by 8th April 2012. Full papers should be submitted by 21st May 2012.

PUBLICATION OF PAPERS: The papers presented at the conference will be published in the Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Accounting & Finance. The "Journal of Computational Optimization in Economics and Finance" will dedicate a special issue to the Conference from selected papers from the main session.

The "Journal of Financial Decision Making" will dedicate a special issue to the Conference from selected papers from the Ph.D. session.

Furthermore, the "Investment Research & Analysis Journal" will publish the best four papers that refer to finance and accounting from the Conference, two being chosen among the Ph.D. session and the other two from the main session.

VENUE AND CONFERENCE DATES: The Conference dates are 29-31 August 2012, Corfu Island, Greece