The Past Speaks

23rd Accounting History Review Conference Cardiff University, 12-13 September 2011

AS’s note: Accounting history might sound like a dry, worthy-but-dull topic. It’s actually a vital important subject of scholarly inquiry. As the acclaimed development economist Hernando De Soto has recently pointed out in his Business Week article “The Destruction of Economic Facts“, (honest) accounting played a big role in the rise of the western world. Dishonest accounting (e.g., Enron) threatens the ability of our societies to allocate capital efficiently and is therefore a big, big problem. So this conference is important. Plus Cardiff is a wonderful city, so you have an additional reason to come to it.

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The 23rd accounting history conference organised at Cardiff Business School
will be the launch event for Accounting History Review. In accordance with
the focus of the journal a key theme of the conference will be ‘Accounting
in History’ – exploring the scope for greater interdisciplinary engagement between accounting and mainstream historians. The guest speakers are historians whose work has important implications for accounting history research.

Also with a view to stimulating the development of new research agendas
there will be a panel discussion on future research directions in accounting
history involving leading commentators on the state of the field over the
past two decades. Panellists include Salvador Carmona, Warwick Funnell,
Christopher Napier and Stephen Walker.

The conference will also feature parallel sessions. Theoretical, empirical
and review papers are welcomed in all areas of accounting history.

Delegates are provided with the opportunity of receiving constructive
feedback, in an informal setting, on papers ranging from early working
drafts to fully developed manuscripts. The programme allows approximately 35 minutes for presentation and discussion.

The conference, organised by Malcolm Anderson and Stephen Walker, will be held in the prestigious Glamorgan Building of Cardiff University. Sessions
will commence on the morning of 12th September 2011 and conclude in the late afternoon of 13th September.

The event will feature a wine reception sponsored by Taylor & Francis on
11th September, conference lunches, teas and a dinner in the Great Hall of
Caerphilly Castle, one of the most impressive medieval fortresses in western
Europe.

Those wishing to offer papers to be considered for presentation at the
conference should send a one page abstract (including name, affiliation and
contact details) formatted in Word as an email attachment by 1st June 2011
to carbs conference@cf.ac.uk. Tel +44 (0)29 2087 5731. Applicants will be
advised of the conference organisers’ decision by 10th June 2011.

Part of the costs of this conference are being paid by the ICAEW’s
charitable trusts.  These trusts support educational projects relating to
accountancy and economics.