MISB Bocconi Hosts Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance (JAAF) 2015 Conference

·        First-ever JAAF conference held in India concludes

·        Focus on India-relevant global best practices on fair valuation, financial reporting quality, and corporate transparency

·        Attended by the world’s top academics in accounting and finance 

The “Special Issue” conference of the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance (JAAF), on ‘Research Challenges in Accounting and Finance in a Globalized Economy: Fair value measurements, valuation models, and management practices’, concluded today at MISB Bocconi’s campus in Knowledge Park, Powai, Mumbai. The conference was co-organised by JAAF, SDA Bocconi, Milan, and ISB, Hyderabad, and sponsored by PWC Italy.

MISB Bocconi, India’s premier business school, had the privilege of being India’s first-ever host of the prestigious JAAF conference. The conference, held between 8-10 January, brought together nearly 50 of the world’s leading academics in accounting and finance to discuss and debate the latest advances and practices in fair value accounting and valuation. The discussions and papers focused on India-relevant global best practices on fair valuation, financial reporting quality and corporate transparency, and the lessons for India from the recent global financial crisis.

Distinguished participants included guest editors Kashi R Balachandran, Stern School of Business, New York University; Antonio Marra, Università Bocconi and SDA Bocconi School of Management; and Sanjay Kallapur, Indian School of Business. Keynote speakers included Bala Dharan, Harvard Law School; Joshua Ronen, Stern School of Business, New York University; Bikki Jaggi, Rutgers University, Giorgio Gotti, President-elect International Accounting Section--AAA, UTEP; and Agnes Cheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

The conference program included four research sessions with 3 panel discussions and presentation of 11 papers.

The panel discussions covered:

·         Research Horizons in Finance and Accounting in a Globalized Economy

·         Do Emerging Markets Differ from Developed Countries? Results from Studies on China and India

·         Transparency in Corporate India: How do Governance Issues Matter for Restarting economic growth?

Papers were presented by Audrey Wen-Hsin Hsu, National Taiwan University; Raghunandan Kannan, Florida International University, USA; Amy Yueh-Fang Ho, Providence University, Taiwan; Hariom Manchiraju, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India; Suresh Radhakrishnan, University of Texas, Dallas, US; Yong Zhang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Debarati Basu, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, India; Laura Zoni, SDA Bocconi School of Management, Milan, Italy; Samir Trabelsi, Brock University, Canada; Robert Couch, Atkinson Graduate School of Management, USA; and Marinilka Kimbro, Seattle University, Washington, USA.

Prominent journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta gave the keynote dinner address.

About Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance (JAAF)

The Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance (JAAF), peer-reviewed and published quarterly, is an indispensable resource for accounting and auditing researchers, faculty and students. Along with the exploratory and innovative works in TRACKS, JAAF offers valuable insights into developments in accounting and related fields, such as finance, economics and operations. For more information, please visit: http://jaf.sagepub.com/

About MISB Bocconi

MISB Bocconi, located in Mumbai, is the world’s only offshore presence of Università Bocconi, one of Europe’s premier universities. MISB Bocconi offers post-graduate management and post-experience executive education, designed and taught by the faculty of SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy.

SDA Bocconi, the management school of Università Bocconi, is one of the select business schools world-wide to have received, for its MBA program, all three of the prestigious international accreditations—AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System), and AMBA (Association of MBAs).

MISB Bocconi's key differentiator lies in the wide-ranging practical and academic expertise of the SDA Bocconi faculty; pro-active learning pedagogies include industry interaction, job-oriented internships, and projects to prepare students for global leadership. International exposure is integral to the program through the dual-campus student exchange between Milan and Mumbai and immersion across three continents.
          
To know more about MISB Bocconi, please visit http://www.misbbocconi.com; for more on SDA Bocconi, please visit http://www.sdabocconi.it/en/

Contact

Sukita Tapadia, MISB Bocconi, +91.7710925902

Ronak Shah, Communicate India, +91.9819919193

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