Dear PSAAR friends,

We would like to draw your attention to the annual conference of the Permanent Study Group XII Public Sector Financial Management of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) that will take place in Lausanne from 5th to 7th September 2018.

The theme in the call for papers of the Study Group is "In the pursuit of financial sustainability: Enablers, facilitators and barriers from a public financial management perspective".

The deadline for abstract submissions is the 18th April 2018.

You can see the call for papers here.

For visiting the conference site click here www.egpa-conference2018.org

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Dear PSAAR friends,

We would like to draw your attention to the PhD seminar and Workshop on “Modernization, Westernization, and Democratization of Public Financial Management in Central and Eastern European Countries” that will take place from 6-8 June 2018 in Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine).

Key note speakers at the Workshop are: Prof. Stephen Zeff (Rice University, USA); Prof. Massimo Sargiacomo (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy); Prof. Shahzad Uddin (Essex Business School, UK); Dmitri Gourfinkel, Senior Financial Management Specialist (World Bank); Einar Gørrissen, Director General (INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI)).

This Special Issue of “Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies”, edited by Anatoli Bourmistrov, Giuseppe Grossi and Toomas Haldma, is associated to this workshop.

For the full Call for Papers click here: https://www.nord.no/no/om-oss/fakulteter-og-avdelinger/handelshogskolen/Sider/Workshop_6-8_june_2018.aspx

Full papers for the workshop should be submitted by 31 March 2018.

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Dear PSAAR friends,

We would like to draw your attention to the Special Issue of “Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies”, edited by Anatoli Bourmistrov, Giuseppe Grossi and Toomas Haldma. This special issue is related to the Workshop “Modernization, Westernization, and Democratization of Public Financial Management in Central and Eastern European Countries” organized in Kyiv in 07-08 June, 2018.

For the full Call for Papers click here: https://www.nord.no/no/om-oss/fakulteter-og-avdelinger/handelshogskolen/Sider/Workshop_6-8_june_2018.aspx

The deadline for the submission to the Special issue of Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies is 31 October 2018.

Please be aware that presentation at the Workshop does not guarantee acceptance of the paper for publication in the Special Issue. Also, participating in the Workshop is not a precondition for submitting a manuscript to the Special Issue.

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The CIGAR network, the EGPA PSG XII, and the Accounting and Accountability SIG of the IRSPM have jointly established a task force that brings together members of the three research networks interested in playing an active and influential role in the worldwide process of developing high quality public sector financial reports. The mission of the task force is to assist the EU legislator and the IPSASB in their efforts to improve public sector financial management and reporting, by drafting theoretically sound and empirically embedded documents, either spontaneously, or in response to an invitation to provide comments and empirical evidence, for example, on exposure drafts.

To date, the Task force IRSPM A&A SIG, CIGAR Network, EGPA PSG XII has contributed on the following public consultations:

IPSAS Consultation Paper Financial Reporting for Heritage in the Public Sector
https://www.ifac.org/publications-resources/financial-reporting-heritage-public-sector

IPSAS Consultation Paper for Accounting for Revenue and Non-Exchange Expenses
https://www.ifac.org/publications-resources/accounting-revenue-and-non-exchange-expenses

The task force is currently working on the following consultation:
Exposure Draft 63 Social Benefits
https://www.ifac.org/publications-resources/exposure-draft-63-social-benefits

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Dear PSAAR friends,

We would like to draw your attention to the IIAS Congress 2018 (https://www.iias-congress2018.org) that will take place from 25-29 June 2018 in Tunis, where a panel on “Financial Resilience of Governmental, Quasi-governmental and Hybrid Entities” is organized.

The Panel Chairs are Carmela Barbera, Céline Du Boys, Sanja Korac, Iris Saliterer and Ileana Steccolini.

For the full Call for Papers click here: https://www.iias-congress2018.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/23_Barberaetal._FinancialResilience.pdf

The deadline for abstract submission is 31 January.

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Dear PSAAR friends,

International Journal of Public Sector Management is planning a special issue under the title:

International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS): Current status, practices, and future agenda

The guest editors are:
Dr. Mohammad Nurunnabi, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Professor Paul Rouse, The University of Auckland, New Zealand This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Authors should submit their papers by 30 October 2018 through ScholarOne submission system http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijpsm according to the journal guidelines.

For the call for papers click here