CALL FOR PAPERS: 5th International Conference on Accounting and Finance Syros Island, Greece, September 4-5, 2014

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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 5^th International Conference on Accounting and Finance.

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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. 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. You can submit your paper in English but you can make your presentation in Russian (and we can interpret it in English (the official language) during your presentation with an additional fee of 100 Euro).

Please contact us (icaf@uom.gr) for further information.

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 
                                     E-mail:  icaf@uom.gr

DEADLINES AND MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION 

Abstracts submitted for consideration should reach the Organising Committee by 10^th March 2014. Notifications of acceptance will be sent to authors by 14^th March 2014. Full papers should be submitted by  23^rd May 2014.

PUBLICATION OF PAPERS
The papers presented at the conference will be published in the Proceedings of the 5^th 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 4-5 September 2014, Syros Island, Greece

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Conference Chair  

Lazaridis Ioannis, University of Macedonia