Call for Papers

The 2025 Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance Symposium (International) will be held on June 6-7, 2025 at School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. The Symposium invites submissions of high-quality research, addressing cutting-edge research topics in the areas of (1) Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), (2) Artificial Intelligence (AI), and (3) Big Data. Submissions employing novel research methods or data will be particularly welcomed.

We have cordially invited Professor Philip Berger to serve as the keynote speaker for this symposium. Professor Philip Berger is Wallman Family Professor of Accounting at Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. His research focuses on financial reporting and corporate finance. He has published in all the top accounting and finance journals, and has been an editor of Journal of Accounting Research for 20 years.

We regret to announce that Professor Philip Berger is unfortunately unable to join us as the keynote speaker for the 2025 JAAF Symposium in Shanghai. Due to unforeseen circumstances, he will no longer be able to travel to Shanghai at this time. The symposium program remains strong with a diverse range of excellent research presentations and an exciting new Research Spotlight session offering authors direct feedback from the JAAF editorial team. We are committed to providing a valuable experience for all participants and look forward to welcoming you to Fudan University on June 6-7, 2025.

Relevant topics for this Symposium include (but are not limited to):

1. Environmental and social disclosures
2. Incentives and economic consequences of ESG reporting activities
3. How capital market participants and non-capital-market stakeholders collect, process, and produce ESG-related information
4. Impact of AI and Big Data on capital market participants and non-capital-market stakeholders
5. Challenges and opportunities that AI and Big Data introduce for financial reporting
6. Use of emerging AI technologies and Big Data in our field of research

There is a $50 fee for each submitted paper. Credit card payment can be made through Paypal. When you submit your paper, please include Your Transaction ID.

The submission deadline is February 16, 2025.

Authors should submit only full papers (i.e., complete scholarly research projects that could reasonably be submitted to a public working paper database such as SSRN). Proposals will not be accepted. There is no specific manuscript format and no page limit, but papers should generally not exceed 50 pages. Presenters of accepted papers must register as symposium participants.

Submission procedures and rules
Papers submissions should be emailed to JAAF2025symposium@fdsm.fudan.edu.cn. We will match your paper submission with the paid submission fee information from PayPal.

In the subject of the email, authors should indicate that the submission is for the 2025 JAAF Symposium (International). Two files should be submitted as attachments to the email:

1. the title page that includes the title, author names, affiliations, keywords, and any acknowledgements, and
2. the main text that includes an abstract and no information of the authors.

Paper sessions
If the authors wish, papers accepted for the Symposium will have the opportunity to be reviewed under the fast track for publication in JAAF with the ultimate editorial decision to be determined according to JAAF's policies. Accepted papers need to be submitted to JAAF by June 7, 2026 for a fast track consideration. However, submission to JAAF is not mandatory. Papers not accepted can still be submitted to JAAF as regular submissions. Please note that the main dates for paper presentations are June 6 and June 7, 2025.

Professor Agnes Cheng (JAAF Conference Editor) and Professor Rong Huang (JAAF Associate Editor), in consultation with Professor Xiao-Jun Zhang (JAAF Editor-in-Chief), will select papers to be included in the Symposium. There will be a Best Paper Award for papers presented at the Symposium.

Paper acceptance decisions will be made by March 16, 2025.

Conference scientific committee
Professor Agnes Cheng (University of Oklahoma)
Professor Rong Huang (Fudan University)
Professor Xin Zhang (Fudan University)
Professor Xiao-Jun Zhang (University of California, Berkeley)