Dear PSAAR friends,

We would like to draw your attention to a Special Issue in Financial Accountability and Management under the title Public financial management for Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges, experiences and perspectives.

The guest editors are Francesca Manes Rossi, Isabel Brusca, Sandra Cohen, Eugenio Caperchione, Anna Thomasson.

The Special Issue welcomes papers within the broad area of public sector financial management, assessing the current situation, challenges and future prospects regarding sustainable development, and SDGs in particular. New approaches from both the theoretical and the methodological point of view would provide a fresh contribution for the advancement of public financial management studies and are therefore appreciated. The research may be contemporary, historical or comparative. 

Submission process and deadline: Papers submitted will be reviewed for publication in a Special Issue of Financial Accountability & Management.

The authors can contact Francesca Manes Rossi (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Anna Thomasson (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) for any further queries regarding the SI.

The deadline for submission of full papers via the FAM online platform is 15 September 2023 15 October 2023.

For the call for paper 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 “A new era for public sector reporting: Technology and digitization in service to meet user needs” in the International Journal of Public Sector Management. 

The Guest editors of the SI are Sandra Cohen, Sotirios Karatzimas and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

This special issue focuses on how emerging technologies and digitalization could impact on the stakeholders role in the production and shaping of financial and non-financial reporting in the public sector as well as on the development of good practices in this area. The guest editors welcome submissions of papers addressing financial and non financial reporting by adopting technology and digitization for multiple stakeholders, challenges in terms of IT knowledge and skills for accountants and auditors, public sector reporting and big data, papers that consider the impact of the implementation of emerging technologies (Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Blockchain, Big Data) on public sector reporting and auditing, digital divide and the implementation of the digitization on public sector reporting, and citizens' rights to information access in different electronic formats and channels.

The deadline for submissions to the special issue is May 31, 2023. The platform will open for submissions on January 2, 2023. Accepted papers will be published in a Special Issue on 2024 (Vol. 37, Issue 3).

For inquiries and further information please contact the corresponding Guest Editor Prof. Sandra Cohen (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) – 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/a-new-era-public-sector-reporting-technology-and-digitization-service-meet-user

Dear PSAAR friends,

We would like to draw your attention to the track "Rethinking the Public Administration: Sustainability Challenges for Public Governance, Management and Accounting Studies for the New Generation" of the IIAS-EUROMENA 2022 Joint Conference on Next Generation Governance and Young Global Public Administration, that will take place in Rome, on June 27-July 1.

Abstract submissions can be made on https://www.conftool.org/iias-euromena2022/ by April 1.
Registrations will open by April 18
Notification of acceptance will be made by April 30
The deadline for full paper submissions is set on May 29
The conference will take place on June 27-July 1

For further details, please visit the conference website at the following link: https://iias-euromena-conference2022.org 

Potential contributors are welcome to contact the track chairs who are the following.
Prof. Manuela Samantha Macinati This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Prof. Silvia Testarmata This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Prof. Francesca Manes Rossi This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Prof. Isabel Brusca This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Prof. Sandra Cohen This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

For the call for paper click here

Read more

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.

Read more

Dear PSAAR friends,

We would like to draw your attention to the 2022 EGPA PSG “Public Sector Financial Management” Spring Workshop that will take place in Rome, Italy, on May 26th and 27th 2022 at LUMSA University. The theme of the EGPA Spring Workshop is "Rethinking Public Sector Financial Management: Public Value and Other Challenges for Accounting Studies (in the Aftermaths of COVID-19)".

Practical information

• Abstracts (no more than 1000 words) should be submitted to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by March 1^st 2022.
• Notification of acceptance will be made by March 15^th 2022.
• Full papers (20 pages maximum) should be submitted by April 15^th 2022 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• The registration fee is € 120 until April 22^nd 2022 (€ 170 for late registration after April 22^nd 2022).

Read more

Dear PSAAR friends,

On 21-23 September 2022, the 16th CIGAR Workshop will be held in Germany in Berlin. Starting with the PhD Colloquium and closing with the IPSASB Research Forum on Friday 23rd, in the afternoon. The theme of the CIGAR Workshop will be “Educating for Institutional Change in Public Sector Accounting?” and will therefore focus on public sector accounting education (PSAE).  The organising committee of the workshop comprises Berit Adam, Jens Heiling, Nicole KüchlerStahn and John Siegel.

Paper proposals (maximum 2 pages) should be submitted to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by April 30, 2022 and – if accepted – full papers will be due by July 30, 2022 August 20, 2022 .

For the call for papers click here.

Read more