CALL FOR PAPERS

3^rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

 ON

 Accounting and Finance

 Skiathos Island, Greece, August 26-27, 2010

 Department of Accounting & Finance,

University of Macedonia,

Thessaloniki, Greece

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA

The Postgraduate Program of the Department of Accounting and Finance of University of Macedonia, due to the celebration of the twenty years, since the Department of Accounting and Finance has been established, is seeking papers for its upcoming conference. Authors are invited to submit theoretical and empirical papers in all categories of finance and accounting. The broad topics include:

We plan to hold a joint finance/accounting session in which postgraduate students and Ph.D. Candidates will present their work and receive feedback from faculty in their discipline.

CONFERENCE LANGUAGE

The official language of the Conference will be English.

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

Abstracts should be limited to 200 words and should include the following: Name of author(s), title, affiliation (s), full address of corresponding author(s), including their phone, fax and e-mail. Send submit your abstracts (electronic form) to the:

Conference Secretary:        Ipatia Konstantinidou

                                                Department of Accounting & Finance

                                                University of Macedonia

                                                N. Egnatia Str. 156, 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece

                                                Tel:  0030 2310 891687, Fax:  0030 2310 891678

                                                E-mail:  icaf@uom.gr

DEADLINES AND MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

 Abstracts submitted for consideration should reach the Organising Committee by 12^th February 2010. Notifications of acceptance will be sent to authors by 19^th March 2010. Full papers should be submitted by 21^st May 2010.

PUBLICATION OF PAPERS

 The papers presented at the conference will be published in the Proceedings of the 3^rd International Conference on Accounting & Finance.

 The “Journal of Computational Optimization in Economics and Finance” will dedicate a special issue to the Conference from selected papers from the main session.

 The “Journal of Financial Decision Making” will dedicate a special issue to the Conference from selected papers from the Ph.D. session.

 Furthermore, the “Investment Research & Analysis Journal” will publish the best four papers that refer to finance and accounting from the Conference, two being chosen among the Ph.D. session and the other two from the main session.

VENUE AND CONFERENCE DATES

 The Conference dates are 26-27 August 2010, Skiathos Island, Greece