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The Society's mission is to promote the development of theory in accounting and its use in empirical discourse. The Society is open to anyone interested in taking an active role in promoting this mission. Please browse this site for information about webinars, present and past accounting theory conferences, the SSRN Accounting Theory e-journal and memberships.

What can the AES do for you? Whether a member or a non-member, the AES helps disseminate and organize academic meetings ranging from education (summer school) to academic research conferences. Do you have a paper that you would like to present or needs feedback? Work-in-progress for which specialized parts of the analysis requires a co-author? Is there an event that you would like to organize but which may need support? A question about an ongoing stream literature for which one of the members has expertise? Please send us an email to admin@accountingtheory.org, or to any of the founding members, and we will do our best to help.

Important Announcements: AES Congress Aug. 8th - Aug. 9th: Program

The Third Annual Conference of the Accounting and Economics Society (AES 2026)

May 15–16, 2026 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

The Accounting and Economics Society (AES) invites scholars to the Third Annual AES Conference, to be held at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

The conference provides a vibrant platform for scholars to present and discuss research at the intersection of accounting and economics, fostering dialogue that deepens our understanding of economic institutions and market mechanisms. While theoretical inquiry remains central, the AES welcomes all methodological perspectives—empirical, analytical, and experimental—and encourages interdisciplinary collaborations integrating insights from the broader social sciences.

The event is co-sponsored by Duke University and the Accounting and Economics Society, alongside two complementary gatherings:

Junior Theory Conference, hosted by New York University on May 17, 2026

Accounting Theory Summer School, held at Duke University on May 18–20, 2026

The AES is an open scholarly community dedicated to advancing theoretical, archival, and experimental research in accounting. The Society promotes the dissemination of innovative ideas, the sharing of teaching materials, and the cultivation of intellectual exchange through its conferences and seminars.

Submission Link: www.accountingtheory.org

Important Dates

Date Event

February 28, 2026 Submission Deadline

March 31, 2026 Decision Letters Sent

May 15–16, 2026 Research Sessions (AES 2026)

May 17, 2026 Junior Theory Conference (NYU)

May 18–20, 2026 PhD Students Summer School (Duke)

Keynote Speakers

Qi Chen, L. Palmer Fox Professor of Business Administration, Duke University

Professor Chen’s research bridges empirical and theoretical approaches, with several major contributions to the fields of banking, market feedback, and managerial accounting. His influential paper “Price Informativeness and Investment Sensitivity to Stock Price” (Review of Financial Studies) demonstrates how managers learn from stock prices when making investment decisions.

Chandra Kanodia, Professor and Arthur Andersen & Co. Kullberg Chair, University of Minnesota

Professor Kanodia’s research has shaped the understanding of the two-way interactions between firms’ reporting choices and investment decisions. His seminal work “Accounting Conservatism and the Efficiency of Debt Contracts” (Journal of Accounting Research) has inspired a broad body of follow-up studies on investment efficiency and standard-setting.

Submission Guidelines

Paper Preparation

Submit papers in PDF format.

Papers must be original and unpublished.

Submissions may be single-blind or double-blind.

Submission

Submit your paper via the AES website: www.accountingtheory.org

Deadline: February 28, 2026

Decision

Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by March 31, 2026.

Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to volunteer as discussants.

Presentations

Each paper is allocated 45 minutes:

30 minutes for presentation

15 minutes for discussion

Session chairs may adjust timing as appropriate.

Review Process

All submissions are reviewed by AES’s scientific committee members and qualified external reviewers specializing in relevant research areas.

Scientific Committee

Cyrus Aghamolla (Rice University) • Ranjani Ananthakrishnan (Michigan State) • Tim Baldenius (Columbia) • Phil Berger (Chicago Booth) • Jeremy Bertomeu (Washington University) • Anne Beyer (Stanford) • Thomas Bourveau (Columbia) • Matthias Breuer (Columbia) • Judson Caskey (UCLA) • Qi Chen (Duke) • Edwige Cheynel (Washington University) • Phil Dybvig (Washington University) • Vivian Fang (Indiana) • Richard Frankel (Washington University) • Henry Friedman (UCLA) • Joseph Gerakos (Dartmouth) • Jonathan Glover (Columbia) • Ilan Guttman (NYU) • Rachel Hayes (Utah) • Mirko Heinle (Wharton) • Robert Knechel (Florida) • Lisa Liu (Columbia) • Ivan Marinovic (Stanford) • Xiumin Martin (Washington University) • Xiaojing Meng (NYU) • Venky Nagar (Michigan) • Lin Nan (Purdue) • Phil Stocken (Dartmouth) • Alfred Wagenhofer (Graz) • Gaoqing Zhang (Carnegie Mellon)

For general inquiries regarding the AES Conference, please contact: [Insert email address]

AES Congress Aug. 8th - Aug. 9th: Program

The Second Annual Conference of the Accounting and Economics Society (AES 2024) will take place on August 8-9, 2025, at Columbia University in New York City. This conference serves as a dynamic platform for scholars to explore and advance economic analysis in accounting and related fields. While theoretical frameworks provide a foundation for understanding economic institutions, the event embraces diverse methodologies and strongly encourages interdisciplinary collaboration.

The program is now available and can be downloaded at:

Link to the final program

There are only a few spots left so if you are a discussant or presenter, please register as soon as possible at the link below.

Registration Link

Location and Time. The conference begins with a lunch on Friday, Aug 8 at 11:45am and will conclude on Saturday, Aug 9 at 5pm. It will take place at Kravis Hall in Columbia Business School (665 W 130th St, New York, NY 10027). Please note that the CBS building is not on the main campus but instead part of the Manhattanville Campus. If you are using a cab or a GPS, make sure to type Columbia Business School, or there will be a walk of approximately 10-15 minutes from the main campus. The closest subway station is at Broadway and 125th Street (the 1 line). (See the map below.) CBS has two buildings facing each other, and Kravis Hall is the building pictured on the map. Please make sure that you bring an ID with you. On occasion, some uber drivers will get confused and may try to drop you off on Riverside Drive or on the Hudson Parkway (which is elevated and without a well-marked path to the business school). If this occurs, just let them know they have to get 130th or 131st street.

Conference check-in. The check-in table will be in the lobby of Kravis Hall, 665 West 130th Street. Lunch will be in Kravis 1040. All presentations room will also be on the 10th floor of Kravis. There will be signs indicating where the presentation rooms are.

Keynote. There was a last-minute cancellation for one of our keynote speakers; however, it is our pleasure and honor to announce that Wouter Dessein, who is the Eli Ginzberg Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, will be the second keynote and will present on Aug. 9 at 4pm.

Presentations. Each paper is allocated a total of 45 minutes. Authors will have 30 minutes (seminar style) to present the paper (first 7 minutes uninterrupted) followed by 15 minutes for the discussant. Given the short presentation time, we kindly ask participants to keep questions short.

The discussant of the second paper will serve as a moderator for each session.

Wireless Internet. There is an open wifi connection ("Columbia University") available to all participants.

AES Jr. Accounting Theory and Summer School 2025

The Congress is a separate event from the AES Summer school (Aug. 6-7 at Baruch College) and the Jr. Accounting Theory Conference (Aug. 10 at NYU). You may attend to both events but, if you would like to submit a paper to the Jr. Accounting Theory Conference, you should make your submission here. A paper may be submitted to both events.

For the summer school, the curriculum will be available in early March. If you have an interest in attending and would like to be kept to up to date, please fill out the form here.
The Junior Accounting Theory Conference is open to advanced graduate students and untenured faculty, and designed to promote interactions by researchers at early stages of their career. A flyer for the conference can be dowloaded here and please fill out the submission page here if you would like to present.

AES-Duke Accounting Theory Summer School, May 29th-31st

We are pleased to announce the 3rd Accounting Theory Summer School, hosted by the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, in conjunction with the Accounting and Economic Society.

The program aims to introduce participants to several theoretical frameworks relevant to accounting research, to develop the ability to generate theory-based insights and to apply them to accounting research, to appreciate the connection between accounting research and broader research paradigms in economics and finance, and to stimulate new insights in both analytical and empirical research.

Towards this goal, the program will feature 3 days of lectures by Profs. Itay Goldstein, Thomas Hemmer, Chandra Kanodia, and Qi Chen on a variety of contemporary accounting theories. These lectures will primarily discuss existing theoretical research, their motivation and relevance to accounting research, main intuitions, and implications for future research.

Due to limited space, registration is required with a non-refundable registration fee of $250. The fee will cover lunch, dinner, and break snacks during the summer school. Participants are responsible for their own travel and lodging expenses. We encourage you to stay at the JB Duke Hotel as it is located at the Fuqua School.

The summer school is a part of the events organized under the Accounting and Economic Society to promote theory-based research in accounting. Please see AES website for additional events for the year.

15th EIASM Workshop on Accounting & Economics – Call for Papers

This is an announcement and call for papers for the 15th EIASM Workshop on Accounting & Economics to be held on June 20-21, 2024 in Vienna, Austria. The purpose of the workshop is to promote the application of economic analysis in accounting research.

Invited plenary speakers are Robert Göx and Lin Nan.

Submissions should be made by March 31, 2024 through the following website:

https://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=1694

You can also find further information about the Workshop on this website.

We look forward to receiving your submissions and to welcoming you in Vienna.

Best regards,

Eva Labro, Alfred Wagenhofer, and Christian Riegler

Junior Accounting Theory Conference UC Denver August 6 2023

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to attend the 2023 Junior Accounting Theory

Conference co-organized with the University of Colorado Denver on August 6, 2023. The conference provides a venue for researchers from all methodologies with an interest in incorporating theory into their work to discover new studies, find collaborators, and share knowledge between fields and methodologies. We are excited to resume the conference in person.

This year’s conference will include papers by Ellen Wang (U of Houston), Seung Lee (U of Southern Denmark), Charles McClure (Chicago), Frank Zhou (Wharton), and Shuo Zhuo (Tilburg).

The conference is open to Ph.D. students and faculty in accounting, finance, economics, and related disciplines, with a focus on research relevant to accounting. Please feel free to forward the invitation to anyone you think might be interested in attending. In particular, please forward this to any PhD students that you think may be interested in attending.

Registration: Please register for the conference at this link. To assist us with planning, please do so by July 23, 2023. We can only guarantee your space if you register by this date. To aid in our planning, please only register if you are reasonably confident you will make it.

After that date, registration will be on a first-come-first-serve basis. There is no registration fee, and all participants are responsible for their own hotel and transportation. We will provide light breakfast and lunch on the conference day, and there will be a dinner after the conference.

Logistics: University of Colorado Denver is about a 30-minute drive from Denver international airport and a similar distance from the Gaylord Rockies Resort, where the AAA meeting will be held. If you wish to stay closer, there are several hotels in walking distance including The Westin Denver Downtown, Hotel Teatro, and The Oxford Hotel. We will provide more details to

registrants as the date approaches.

CALL FOR PRESENTERS: 3rd ANNUAL RESEARCH PROPOSAL CONFERENCE: FARS and the Journal of Financial Reporting

The 3rd Annual Research Proposal Conference will be held online on September 21-22, 2023. The goal is to bring together researchers who are interested in learning about the opportunities and challenges associated with novel theories that can enhance inferences for financial reporting. Novel theories could be new theories based on formal mathematical analysis or logical verbal narratives or could be existing theories that might offer novel inferences for financial reporting, such as theories from other disciplines.

The Research Proposal Conference will consist of short presentations on a variety of topics. Presentations are expected to highlight the most important features of the theory, including its novelty to potential inferences in financial reporting, underlying foundations, and utility in explaining financial reporting choices or outcomes. Accepted presenters will be invited to submit an accompanying article to the Journal of Financial Reporting.

Submission Details

Presentation proposals should be emailed to Henry Friedman (henry.friedman@anderson.ucla.edu), Nicole Cade, (ncade@katz.pitt.edu), and Ethan Rouen (erouen@hbs.edu) no later than Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Feel free to contact us if you have questions or would like to discuss a potential presentation idea.

Deadlines

Initial proposals are due Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Authors of promising submissions will be informed in mid-April and may be asked to submit an expanded proposal by June 30, 2023, with final decisions made by August 15, 2023.

Conference: September 21-22, 2023, remote format, split across 2 days

VIEW THE FULL CALL HERE

2023 ARW Conference Call for Papers

Please find attached the first Announcement and Call for Papers for the 13th Accounting Research Workshop on June 29-30, 2023 in Zurich. The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2023.

We are glad to inform you that Eti Einhorn (Tel Aviv University) and Daniel Taylor (Wharton) have agreed to act as our keynote speakers and we are looking forward to their plenary talks.

We are particularly happy to host the conference on-site again in the beautiful city of Zurich which will greatly facilitate the interaction among participants and the exchange of ideas. As in the past we will do our best to assign motivated discussants to each paper to assure that presenters get detailed feedback on their work.

For further details please see arw-suisse.ch .

We look forward very much to receiving your submissions and to welcoming you in Zurich next summer.

Best regards

Hui Chen, Robert F. Göx, and Ulf Schiller

2022 Junior Accounting Theory Conference Program

Due to the recent increase in cases of vaccine-resistant Covid 19 Omicron variant and on request by many attendees and presenters unable to attend in-person, the 2022 Junior Accounting Theory Conference will be held in remote format. this year’s conference will include papers by I. Luneva (Wharton), Z. Huang (Yale), D. Luo (Stanford), A. Ramchandani (UT Austin), L. Zhang (Chicago) and S. Wu (Columbia).

The conference is on Sunday, July 31st.

The conference will now take place from 9:00 AM to 4:20 PM PST at the following Zoom link.

Conference Announcement: Duke AES Theory Summer Camp

We are pleased to announce the 2nd Accounting Theory Summer School, hosted by the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, in conjunction with the Accounting and Economic Society (more information about AES can be found here).

The summer school is designed for accounting junior faculty and advanced PhD students who are interested in analytical accounting research or theory-based empirical research. Participants are expected to have completed at least two years of PhD level course works in accounting, including microeconomics and finance. The program aims to introduce participants to several theoretical frameworks relevant to accounting research, to develop the ability to generate theory-based insights and to apply them to accounting research, to appreciate the connection between accounting research and broader research paradigms in economics and finance, and to stimulate new insights in both analytical and empirical research.

Towards this goal, the program will feature 3 days of lectures by Profs. Itay Goldstein, Thomas Hemmer, Chandra Kanodia, and Qi Chen on a variety of contemporary accounting theories. The detailed topics and schedule can be found on the program page. These lectures will primarily discuss existing theoretical research, their motivation and relevance to accounting research, main intuitions, and implications for future research.

The program will also feature informal social hours and poster sessions for participants to discuss their current research with other participants, the speakers and the accounting faculty and PhD students from local universities. The poster sessions are open to both theory papers and theory-motivated empirical papers by the participants.

Due to limited space, registration is required with a non-refundable $300 registration fee for faculty and $200 for PhD student. The fee will cover breakfast, lunch, dinner, and break snacks during the summer school.

The summer school is a part of the events organized under the Accounting and Economic Society to promote theory-based research in accounting.

To register, please follow the link to the conference site:

Link to Registration

New 2021-2022 Webinar Series

For the 2021-2022 year, the AES will be running its Big Topics Talk series. The Big Talks are in the format of an interview-presentation leading to an important timeless questions in the format of a discussion with an expert in the field. These topics are meant for opening up new research horizons without the formalism of a paper presentation. For the season 2021-2022, Professors Rick Antle, Sudipta Basu, Steve Kachelmeier, Chandra Kanodia, Stephen Penman, Miklos Vasaharhelyi and Greg Waymire will discuss topics that range from the history of the development of accounting to computer science.

The Big Talks are open to everyone and are on Fridays at 10AM PST - 1 PM EST. Please find current Program and link at the page below:

AES Webinars

AES 2021 Summer School

The AES co-organized its 2021 Summer School with New York University and Washington University. This year's summer school will run each week during the month of July and will feature the following speakers:

Week 1, Friday 7/2, Saturday 7/3: 10am – 11:30am EST
Disclosure Theory (R. Dye)

Week 2, Thursday 7/8, Friday 7/9: 10am – 11:30am EST
Earnings Management (I. Guttman)

Week 3: Thursday 7/15, Friday 7/16, 11am – 12:30am EST
Disagreement Models (S. Banerjee)

Week 4: Thursday 7/22, Friday 7/23, 11am – 12:30pm EST
Noisy Rational Expectations (K. Smith)

Week 5: Thursday 7/29, Friday 7/30, 10am – 11:30am EST
Structural Models in Accounting (E. Cheynel)

Registrations are now closed. If you registered, note that you will receive a set of logistics/course emails starting on June 17th. See you soon on Zoom!

AES Youtube Channel

The AES is pleased to announce the launch of the Youtube Channel. Please connect to the channel's URL here and click Subscribe for up-to-date recordings of webinars and AES events.

Twelfth Accounting Research Workshop

Please find below the Announcement for the yearly Accounting Research Workshop.

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Dear colleagues and friends of the ARW,

please find attached the first Announcement and Call for Papers for the Twelfth Accounting Research Workshop on June 24-25, 2021. The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2021.

We are glad to inform you that Judson Caskey (UCLA) and Mirko Heinle (Wharton) have agreed to act as our keynote speakers and we are grateful that both of them accepted our invitation.

Due the Corona pandemic the workshop will be held online for the first time. Of course, we would have preferred to meet in person in the beautiful City of Basel, but we found that an online workshop is still a great opportunity to exchange research ideas and we look forward to this new experience. As in the past we will do our best to assign motivated discussants to each paper to assure that presenters get detailed feedback on their work.

We look forward very much to receiving your submissions and to see you online at the workshop.

Best regards

Hui Chen, Robert F. Göx, and Ulf Schiller

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