6TH ETHICS SYMPOSIUM
Presented by: Centre for Accounting Ethics & CPA Canada
September 26-27, 2024
CPA Canada, 277 Wellington St. W., Toronto
The symposium aims to bring together researchers, educators, practitioners, and students to share and discuss current issues and challenges in accounting ethics. We encourage researchers to submit papers that address any aspect of accounting ethics, using any research methodology (e.g., empirical archival, experimental, analytical, or other methods).
Counts Toward Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Starting January 1, 2019 CPA Ontario began requiring four-hour professional ethics education. Members must complete a mandatory minimum of four verifiable hours in professional ethics during each rolling three-calendar year period. You can receive up to 9 hours of verifiable CPD hours to meet the new ethics requirement.
Call for Papers
The Centre for Accounting Ethics at the University of Waterloo 6th Biennial Symposium
Submission Deadline June 1, 2024.
Symposium Details
The symposium will be held on September 26th and 27th, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. Submissions that are accepted for the Symposium may be considered as submissions to a special section of an issue of the journal Accounting and the Public Interest.
Theme: ACCOUNTING ETHICS
We encourage researchers to submit papers that address any aspect of accounting ethics, using any research methodology (e.g., empirical archival, experimental, analytical, or other methods). The following topics are only some examples of possible areas of interest, but they are not meant to be exhaustive or restrictive:
- Psychological and organizational factors that influence ethical or unethical choices.
- The ethical considerations in using machine learning, blockchain, or big data in accounting practices.
- Ethical considerations in ESG metrics, reporting transparency, and stakeholder impacts.
- The effectiveness, ethical implications, and psychological burden of whistleblowing within accounting firms.
- Tax avoidance and tax planning in a global context.
- The tension between managerial duties and ethical responsibilities when dealing with internal financial information.
- Variants in ethical accounting practices across different cultural, economic, or political landscapes.
- The ethical challenges faced by accountants in government and non-profit organizations.
- Ethical considerations during financial crises, pandemics, or other emergency situations.
- The ethical dilemmas involved in reporting on social impact, employee welfare, and community engagement.
The symposium encourages submissions that adopt an interdisciplinary, comparative, or critical approach to accounting ethics. The symposium also welcomes papers that explore the collaboration and communication between academics and practitioners in accounting ethics.
Paper Submission Process
Papers should be submitted electronically as a PDF file to Jenny Rothwell at jrothwell@uwaterloo.ca by June 1, 2024. Papers should be original and not previously published. If the paper is currently under review elsewhere, authors must disclose this at the time of submission. Papers should be written in English and follow the APA style. Papers should have an abstract of no more than 250 words.
Papers will be reviewed by a panel of experts and selected based on their relevance, quality, originality, and contribution to the field of accounting ethics. Accepted paper authors will be invited to submit to the Journal Accounting and the Public Interest, where they will go through the journal’s review process. Acceptance to the symposium does not guarantee acceptance to the journal.
Notice of acceptance will be sent by July 15, 2024.
Papers accepted subject to revision must be revised by August 31, 2024.
Call for Posters from Canadian Doctoral Students
The Centre for Accounting Ethics invites students presently registered in a Canadian Doctoral Program to submit a short proposal for consideration for inclusion in a Poster Session at the Symposium. We encourage students who have a research project focused on any accounting ethics topic to submit a proposal.
Submission Guidelines:
The proposal should be up to 1000 words, and address one or more of the following:
- A research project for which data has already been collected at least in pilot form.
- A research project design that includes a description of the literature from which the project flows.
- A theoretical problem with proposed research design directions.
Papers should be submitted electronically as a PDF file to Jenny Rothwell at jrothwell@uwaterloo.ca by June 1, 2024. Abstracts (proposals) will be subject to blind review and notice of acceptance will be sent by July 15, 2024. Should the abstract be accepted, students will be expected to prepare a poster for the Symposium and be available at the Symposium to make a brief 5-minute presentation during the conference and to discuss its contents during a poster session. The students will be invited to attend the full Symposium and reasonable financial support will be available for those attending from outside of Toronto.
Register now
Indicate if you are attending Thursday or Friday only, or both days.
Accommodation:
Residence Inn Toronto Downtown
255 Wellington Street West, Toronto ON M5V 3P9
Book using the University of Waterloo group rate of $309 CAD per night. (Link to be provided)
Please book by August 23 to take advantage of the group rate.
2024 Program - TBD