Dear PSAAR friends,

We would like to draw your attention to the following announcement of the EGPA PSG XII. The Permanent Study Group “Public Sector Financial Management” invites academics and practitioners to participate in the annual conference that will take place in Zagreb, 5-8 September 2023. The theme for the conference is: Public Financial Management and Accounting facing Digital Transformation and Sustainable Development.

Public sector digitalization processes affect all the areas embraced in public financial management: budgeting, accounting, reporting, management accounting, and auditing. It can also have important implications in accountability and relationships with citizens, as the use of big data, social media and other digital technologies can have important benefits both in changing internal processes and procedures, as well as for accountability and transparency. This will also have important implications for accountants and finance professionals that need accounting and digital skills to drive the process. Further challenges for public sector financial management for future years came from sustainability and ESG (environmental, social, governance), as governments need to provide services that add value for stakeholders maintaining the availability of future generations to meet their own needs. Different tools can be introduced in public financial management to face this challenge, such as Gender Budgeting, Green Budgeting, sustainability, integrated and popular reporting. Assurance and auditing of the aforementioned reporting formats also call for scholars’ attention. In practice, countries and governments are moving on to include these tools for achieving sustainable development and to legitimate their policies.

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We would like to draw your attention to the 19th Biennial CIGAR Conference that will take place on June 29-30 2023 in Tokyo, Japan. The theme of the 19th biennial CIGAR conference is ‘‘Public Accountability and Democracy in Times of Crisis: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue’.

The conference will take place in onsite and online hybrid format. The venue is the International Conference Center at Waseda University located in the center of Tokyo, and online participation is also set for the participants who cannot be at the venue. As usual, there will be the PhD symposium, on June 28, followed by a welcome reception at Waseda University.

Extended abstracts (2 A4 pages) or full papers should be submitted to www.cigar2023tokyo.jp by 15 February 2023.

Following Academic Committee double-blind review, authors will be notified by the end of February 2023.

Full papers shall be submitted by the end of April 2023.

For more information please visit the conference website https://cigar2023tokyo.jp/19th/

For the call for papers click here!

Dear PSAAR friends,

We would like to draw your attention to the call for papers for a special issue (SI) under the theme “Earnings management in public sector, hybrid and non-profit organisations” in the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management. The Guest editors of the SI are Pierre Donatella, Marco Bisogno, Sandra Cohen and Odd J. Stalebrink.

The aim of this SI is to shed further light on Earnings Management (EM) motivations and EM’s impact on decision-making and transparency. The guest editors encourage submission of papers that employ a comparative research approach and that consider the role of different administrative traditions, accounting systems, auditing and oversight systems, political and election systems, and other potential factors that may either stimulate or hinder the use of EM practices among politicians and managers. They also encourage new and novel approaches in terms of theory and method, to advance empirical research further. The special issue welcomes research that adds knowledge and deepens the understanding of EM in different types of organisations (public-sector, hybrid and no-profit organisations) and from different perspectives, capturing both macro- and micro-level studies.

The deadline for submissions to the special issue is May 31, 2023. Accepted papers will be published in a special issue in 2024.

For inquiries and further information please contact the corresponding Guest Editor Dr. Pierre Donatella (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

For the call for papers click https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/earnings-management-public-sector-hybrid-and-non-profit-organisations.

Dear PSAAR friends,

We would like to draw your attention to the Virtual workshop related to the Special Issue in Financial Accountability and Management entitled "Public financial management for Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges, experiences and perspectives" that will take place on the 9th of February 2023. The Guest editors of the SI are  Francesca Manes Rossi, Isabel Brusca, Sandra Cohen, Eugenio Caperchione, Anna Thomasson.  

Please find all the necessary information about the event at this link.

For the call for papers for the special issue and the event click here.

Prof. Jan Bebbington will open the event with a a key note speech on ‘The SDGs at the half way stage: promise and distance still to travel’.

Important dates

Research proposals and abstracts by all those interested in the theme are expected by 10^th December 2022.

Authors of selected research will be notified by 22 December 2022 and invited to submit their revised proposal/research designs for the workshop participation by 15 January 2023.

Please consider that participation in the event is not a prerequisite for the submission to the special issue and we would be pleased to host at the event also research proposals not necessarily intended to be submitted to the special issue.

Dear PSAAR friends,

We would like to draw your attention to the 2023 EGPA PSG XII “Public Sector Financial Management” Spring Workshop that will take place in Zagreb, Croatia, on April 27th and 28th 2023 at the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Zagreb University.

The theme of the EGPA Spring Workshop is  "Challenges and opportunities in public sector financial management and reporting"

Practical information

• Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 20, 2023 January, 30. 2023 (new date)
• Deadline for notification to the authors: February 10, 2023
• Deadline for submission of full papers: March 27, 2023

Abstracts (1-2 pages) for the workshop are to be submitted to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For more information please check the call for papers or contact the Workshop local organizers at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Workshop’s website is available at  https://egpa2023zg.net.efzg.hr/home

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Dear PSAAR friends,

We would like to draw your attention to the on-line seminar discussing the "The future of standard-setting and reporting in the public sector" scheduled for the 5th of October 2022, at 13.00-15.00 CET, as part of the online seminar series of the European Accounting Association (EAA).

The online seminar will host a round table which will bring together reputable scholars and practitioners with more than one hats:

Ian Carruthers, Carolyn Cordery, Susana Jorge, Francesca Manes Rossi, Nils Soguel and John Verrinder will critically discuss the scope of financial and non-financial standards and their expected evolution for the public sector as well as their proposals regarding the governance of the standards with a special focus on the role of academics in this process. Organizers and moderators of the event: Isabel Brusca, Mariafrancesca Sicilia, Sandra Cohen and Ileana Steccolini.

More information about the event is available at https://eaa-online.org/events/the-future-of-standard-setting-and-reporting-in-the-public-sector/

Please, save the date for this online seminar, and register your interest to attend by following the link below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkdeuvqT4qE9RIu2hwS22iagLtjvn0nBYo