Academic paper sessions have always been the center of the APMAA annual conferences. Of course, as in every other year, the 2024 Academic Paper Sessions provide subject areas that encompass various fields and accept manuscripts of almost any accounting subject.
Primary and secondary subject areas of the Academic Paper Sessions
01. Management Accounting: Recent Themes and Directions for a Digital Future
02. Cost management and Manufacturing Industries
03. Performance Management
04. Strategic Management Accounting
05. Management Accounting for Multinational Enterprises
06. Management Accounting for State-owned Companies, Public Sector,
and Non-profit Organizations (NPOs)
07. Management Accounting for SMEs and Family Businesses
08. Business Reporting and Communication
09. Business Ethics and Internal Control
10. Mathematical Models in Accounting
11. Comparative (Cross-cultural) Management Accounting
12. Management Accounting of Islamic Business
13. Management Accounting Education and History
14. Other Management Accounting Issue
Guideline for Authors
1. All submitted manuscripts should report original, unpublished research results.
2. The official language of APMAA 2023 is English in both writing and presentation. If English is not your mother tongue (first language), check your draft using a professional editor and/or with a spelling and grammar matching application such as Grammarly before submitting your manuscript. You can download a free version and install it on your PC. If your document is hard to read, we will decline it before sending it to our reviewer.
3. Manuscripts should follow the structure of a traditional research paper, i.e., you will need to adjust your document to the academic format so that it can be accepted . An empirical research paper's typical organization is Title, Abstract, Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, and References (proceedings papers (sakura.ne.jp)).
4. Use Times New Roman font with font size 12, page size A4, single-spaced.
5. Abstract should be 200-300 words on a separate page immediately preceding the text. Show five keywords below the abstract. The textshould be as concise as the subject and research method permit. To be considered, the text length should be over 5,000 but usually not exceed 10,000 words.
6. The cover page should contain the title of the paper, the author's name (first name, initial(s), and family name), position, and affiliation (capitalize the first character of each word). Also, it should contain email addresses and phone numbers. Please indicate the corresponding author. About the detailed information for formatting, please follow the 2022 Guideline for Authors (Formatting and Template) on this page.
7. To promote anonymous review, authors should not identify themselves directly or indirectly in their writing.
8. Author(s) should not use the pronoun " I" or "we." Instead, please use the terms "this study" or "this research" . Referencing should follow the APA style (http://www.apastyle.org).
9. Each author registering for the conference is limited to two (2) full-length paper submissions (including co-author papers) for the Academic Paper Sessions.
10. Authors who received a "Minor Revision" or "Major Revision" notification are expected to resubmit their revised (final) manuscripts before a specified date (the temporal deadline is August 20) to get an "Accept" notification by September 1. Our review team engages in review on a first-come-first-served basis.
11. All authors of accepted manuscripts must register, complete, and submit their camera-ready papers for inclusion in the conference proceedings before the due date (Sep.15, 2022). Authors can choose a full-length paper or executive summary submission for the conference proceedings. Executive summaries are more extended than abstracts, running 3–7 pages (around 1500-2,000 words). They summarize the research output's purpose, methods, results, and conclusions, such that someone who reads only the summary can obtain a solid understanding of the research as a whole. Authors, in principle, cannot make their presentations if they refuse to have their camera-ready papers included in the conference proceedings.
12. To attend and present their papers, at least one of the authors must register (pay the participation fee) for the Conference before September 15, 2023.
Contact Persons
If you have any questions regarding the Academic Paper Submissions, please contact:
We hold the 2023 Doctoral Colloquium in conjunction with the APMAA 2023 Conference. Our Doctoral Colloquium will offer doctoral students an opportunity to receive high-quality feedback from external advisers (mentors), interact with peers, exchange ideas, discuss concepts, and establish (in) formal cooperation with various research groups. In mentorship, a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person. The mentors comprise a group of international professors.
Doctoral students and candidates at all stages are welcome to submit a thesis-position paper, but preference will be given to students in the earlier stages of their doctoral work. Doctoral students interested in participating in the Doctoral Colloquium should submit a single file (in both PDF and Word) consisting of:
1. An introductory letter in which you indicate what you wish to obtain from the Doctoral Colloquium and what you will be bringing to the Doctoral Colloquium.
2. A one-page research statement in the research field you will pursue. This statement should focus on the dissertation if you are at the doctoral dissertation stage.
3. Your CV.
4. A letter of recommendation from your primary dissertation advisor should state what you could contribute and gain from the doctoral consortium.
5. Your research paper
The submitted paper should clearly state:
Notification:
1. The first author should be a doctoral student responsible for researching the topic. If the supervisor becomes a co-author, he or she should be a second or subsequent author.
2. The official language is English in both writing and presentation. If English is not your mother tongue (first language), check your draft by employing a professional editor and/or with a spelling and grammar matching application such as Grammarly before submitting your manuscript. You can download a free version on a webpage and install it on your PC. If your document is hard to read, we will decline it before sending it to our reviewer.
3. The abstract should be 200-300 words on a separate page immediately preceding the text. Show five keywords below the abstract. The text should be as concise as the subject and research method permits. The text length should be about 4,000- 8,000 words. (If not, Desk Rejected). Use Times New Roman font with font size 12, page size A4, single-spaced. About the detailed information for formatting, please follow the 2023 Guideline for Authors (Formatting and Template) on this page.
4. The colloquium chairs will arrange the selection of the accepted papers using a peer-review process.
5. Accepted manuscripts whose first author (doctoral student) will have completed registration and submission of the camera-ready full-length paper before the due date (Sep.15, 2022) will be included in the in-house proceedings (a collection of camera-ready full-length papers). Authors, in principle, cannot make their presentations if they refuse to have their full-length papers included in the conference proceedings. Alternatively, authors can submit a short camera-ready paper whose length is no less than 4,000 words when they get permission beforehand from the Doctoral Colloquium Chair.
There are still ways to get involved! Please consider volunteering for reviewers, moderators, discussants, and mentors who tackle the Quality Control Issues of the APMAA 2023. Please send the " Application Note (Format) for a reviewer, moderator, discussant, or mentor" written in Word (shorter than one page) to Prof. Susumu Ueno(ueno@konan-u.ac.jp),
Baolei Qi (baoleiqi@xjtu.edu.cn), and Liuchuang Li (liuchuangli@xjtu.edu.cn) (to all).
The Application Note should include (1) your name, (2) roles you can take on (reviewer, moderator, discussant, and mentor), (3) Email address; Position, Affiliation, and Country, (4)Subject areas that you want to take on. (5) a several-line (short) profile (or your profile URL) with your photo, and (6) a list of your two published papers (in scholarly English journals) in subject areas you apply. We welcome your application to multiple subject areas and roles.
Application Note (Format)
(1) Prof. Dr. Given name; Family name
(2) Role: Reviewer, moderator, discussant, and mentor
(3) Email address; Position, and Affiliation, Country
(4) 01. Subject areas that I want to take on such as,
02. Cost management and Manufacturing Industries
03. Performance Management
(5) Several-line (short) profile (or a profile URL) with your photo (We do not request the photo if you are a 2022 APMAA director).
(6) A list of your two published papers (in scholarly English journals) in the subject areas you apply.
To serve as a reviewer, moderator, discussant, and mentor, you must (1) participate in an online training program and a rehearsal provided by APMAA and (2) register for the 2023 Annual Conference by September 15. Application Due Dates are as below;
Note that we give reviewers and presenters a priority to serve as a moderator and a mentor.
APMAA has guidelines for presenters, moderators, and discussants beneficial to all, including audiences.