CALL FOR PAPERS

3^rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

ON

Accounting and Finance

Skiathos Island, Greece, August 26-27, 2010

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, due to the celebration of the twenty years, since the Department of Accounting and Finance has been established, 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.

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 12^th February 2010. Notifications of acceptance will be sent to authors by 19^th March 2010. Full papers should be submitted by 21^st May 2010.

PUBLICATION OF PAPERS

The papers presented at the conference will be published in the Proceedings of the 3^rd 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 26-27 August 2010, Skiathos Island, Greece

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Lazaridis Ioannis, Professor (University of Macedonia) (Conference Chair)

Ginoglou Dimitris, Associate Professor (University of Macedonia)

Grambovas Christos, Lecturer (University of Macedonia)

Kousenidis Dimitris, Assistant Professor (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Livanis Efstratios, Adjunct Lecturer (University of Macedonia)

Michalopoulos George, Assistant Professor (University of Macedonia)

Negakis Christos, Associate Professor (University of Macedonia)

Protogeros Nikos, Assistant Professor (University of Macedonia)

Tahinakis Panagiotis, Assistant Professor (University of Macedonia)