The CPA conference will establish an inclusive and energizing atmosphere. All papers will receive a sympathetic and supportive double-blind review. A condition of paper submission is that, if accepted, the paper will be presented at Critical Perspectives on Accounting 2014 by one of the authors.
Research areas of interest to the conference include
Studies involving the political economy of accounting, critical accounting, radical accounting, and accounting’s implication in the exercise of power
Financial accounting’s role in the processes of international capital formation, including its impact on stock market stability and international banking activities
Management accounting’s role in organizing the labor process
The relationship between accounting and the state in various social formations
Studies of accounting’s historical role, as a means of “remembering” the subject’s social and conflictual character
Accounting’s adjudicative function in international exchanges, such as that of the Third World debt
Accounting’s role in Global North South relations
Antagonisms between the social and private character of accounting, such as conflicts of interest in the audit process
The identification of new constituencies for radical and critical accounting intervention
Accounting’s involvement in gender, class, racial, and ethnic conflicts in the workplace and society.
The interplay between accounting, social conflict, industrialization, bureaucracy, and technocracy
