ANPCONT (Associação Nacional dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Contábeis) is pleased to announce that the Association is the co-host of IAAER’s (International Association for Accounting Education and Research). first international accounting congress to be held in South America. A special component of the two day conference will be a half day IFRS workshop co-hosted by the IASCF. All conference sessions will be held at the Universidade de São Paulo. The conference theme is Accounting internationalization: current and future trends. The conference will provide an excellent opportunity to meet and discuss relevant issues about accounting in different environments, different perspectives on accounting and different views for future development.
Papers in English, Portuguese and Spanish are welcome.

The following important topics will be addressed:

i) Management Accounting
Addresses research about instruments supporting the organizational planning and control process.
Main sub-areas include: Governmental Controllership, Controllership in the Third Sector, Controllership applied to logistics, Accounting and Cost Analysis, Activity-Based Costing and Management (ABC/ABM), Economic Income Management, Budget Planning and Control, Management Control in Organizations, Technology and Information Systems, Investment Project Assessment, Logistic, Theory of Constraints and Auditing in Information Systems.

(ii) Accounting for external users
Addresses research related to accounting information for external users.
Main sub-areas include: accounting theory, IFRS, financial accounting, international and comparative accounting, social balance sheet (statement of value added, social environmental reports, human resource balance sheet and community service delivery), intellectual capital, public accounting – Governmental and Third sector, Agribusiness, financial statement analysis, recognition of inflation effects, tax accounting and auditing.

(iii) Financial and stock markets
Covers research on conceptual and/or empirical aspects of the respective markets, as well as resource application from the perspective of past and/or projected business performance.
Main sub-areas include: corporate finance, valuation, risk management and quantitative methods applied to accounting.

(iv)Accounting Education and Research
Study of models, methods, techniques and instruments aimed at improving the teaching-learning process and the elaboration of scientific studies in all knowledge areas in Accountancy.