Alternative Accounts Europe (AAE) Conference 2022

Location
Online event.
Dates
Friday 7 January 2022 (09:00-18:00)
Contact

AAE Conference 2022 Organising Committee: aaeconference2022@contacts.bham.ac.uk

The Interdisciplinary Perspectives Special Interest Group (IPSIG) and the Department of Accounting at Birmingham Business School are pleased to announce the 4th Alternative Accounts Europe Conference on 7 January 2022.

The fourth Alternative Accounts Europe Conference was hosted by University of Birmingham on Friday, 7 January 2022.

The Alternative Accounts Europe Conference brings together scholars interested in interdisciplinary and critical perspectives on accounting in an inclusive and supportive forum. We invite accounting faculty and doctoral students to present work that challenges dominant representations of accounting and to offer alternative accounts of accounting practice research in its diverse and multiple histories, contexts and constituents.

Alternative Accounts Europe (AAE) Conference Programme 2022

Time

Session

Author(s)

*Presenter in bold

Title

Discussant

Session Chair

Session Recording

09.00-09.15

Welcome and opening

 

Tom Cuckston, Head of the Department of Accounting

 

 

Annika Beelitz & Elisavet Mantzari, Conference Co-chairs

 

09.20-10.40

Parallel Session 1A

 

Smyth, Lanka & Mantzari

Understanding the roots of emancipatory accounting as a basis for future research

Colin Dey

Rebecca Warren

Watch Parallel Session 1A

Dey, Thomson & Gibbon

An exploration of the practice of alternative accounts as a post-truth technology in contemporary epistemic conflicts

Stewart Smyth

09.20-10.40

Parallel Session 1B

 

Rohani & Frandsen

The power of Accounting in environmental-strategic truth battles: a post-Foucauldian approach

Guodong Cheng

 

Alex Lin

 

Watch Parallel Session 1B

Cheng, De Loo & Manochin

‘Greening’ the city: the ‘true’ colours of SDGs implementation

Solmaz Rohani

09.20-10.40

Parallel Session 1C

 

Tan & Xiao

The invisible hand: government domination and the politics of local government auditing in China

Sameh Amer

 

Nurul Hidayah

 

Watch Parallel Session 1C

Amer, Samsonova-Taddei & Georgiou

Audit work as knowledge work: how individual auditors develop new knowledge?

 

Zhiyuan (Simon) Tan

09.20-10.40

Parallel Session 1D

 

Nolan & Hogan

Financial literacy and accounting: a critical perspective

Pauline Gleadle

Sara Closs-Davies

 

Watch Parallel Session 1D

Shah & Gleadle

Financialization and later life financial (in)security: the Twice Migrant Gujarati households of west London

John Nolan

 

10.40-10.55

Coffee Break @ the Cafeteria 

 

10.55-12.15

Parallel Session 2A

 

Russell, Thomson, Ferguson, Holstead & Davies

Mapping climate change education: identifying patterns, challenges and possibilities for transformative accounting and finance education

Chris Kelsall

 

David Dowson

 

Watch Parallel Session 2A

Kelsall, Nagirikandalage, Bridge, Marsh & Hossain

Teaching and learning: the challenges of introducing sustainability in a management accounting module

Shona Russell

 

10.55-12.15

Parallel Session 2B

 

Laguecir & Hudson

Too poor to get social housing: MAS and organized stigma of tenants in a social housing organization

Anne Steinhoff

 

Stewart Smyth

Watch Parallel Session 2B

Steinhoff, Warren & Carter

The challenges of coeliac disease at work: understanding the role of performance measures in inclusive work environments

Aziza Laguecir

10.55-12.15

Parallel Session 2C

 

Agbemabiese

Gender and the global accountants in the UAE

Qi Li

 

Ann-Christine Frandsen

 

Watch Parallel Session 2C

Li

Female accountants in China: changing attitudes towards work and family

 

Vivian Agbemabiese

10.55-12.15

Parallel Session 2D

 

Rogerson, Crane, Grosvold, Soundararajan & Cho

The accounting profession and modern slavery: abdicating responsibility?

 

Geoffrey Heath

 

Bob Scapens

 

Watch Parallel Session 2D

Heath

Collaboration between public administration and accounting scholars in studying performance management: some reflections on inter-disciplinarity

Jonida Carungu

 

12.15-13.15

Lunch Break @ the Cafeteria 

 

13.15-14.35

Parallel Session 3A

 

Costa, Kratzer, Pesci & Burgia

Accounting and circular economy as tools for Alpine collective ownership modernization

Madlen Sobkowiak

 

Elisavet Mantzari

Watch Parallel Session 3A

Sobkowiak, Bebbington, Blasiak, Folke & Österblom

Corporate sustainability initiatives: synthesising an evaluation framework

 

Ericka Costa

 

13.15-14.35

Parallel Session 3B

 

McNally

“The only way is ethics” – identity construction of the ‘ethical organisation’

Ann-Christine Frandsen

Ian Thomson

Watch Parallel Session 3B

Reill

An alternative, hermeneutic perspective on biodiversity reporting: German airports and educating society

Thomas Cuckston

13.15-14.35

Parallel Session 3C

 

Kosugi, Kasakabe, Miley & Read

Brew saké and prosper: convergent evolution and brewery accounting during the Tokugawa shogunate

Thu Nguyen

 

Keith Hoskin

Watch Parallel Session 3C

Nguyen

Intellectual capital studies from social construction perspective – the key to what’s in mind behind what’s in sight

Frances Miley

 

14.35-14.50

Coffee Break @ the Cafeteria 

 

14.50-16.10

Parallel Session 4A

 

Sopt, Ghio & Cho

 

Applications for dialogic accounting: exploring Gen Z’s views

Amee Kim

 

Nick Rowbottom

Watch Parallel Session 4A

Kim & Frandsen

Would an increase in female representation at board level indeed better represent firms?

Alessandro Ghio

 

14.50-16.10

Parallel Session 4B

 

Carungu, Di Pietra & Molinari

Advancing management accounting practice: focus on the challenges in reporting the Sustainable Development Goals

Michael Rogerson

 

Raeni

 

Watch Parallel Session 4B

Duenas

Accounting practices and power asymmetries in the international aid chain: the case of a southern NGO

 

Bob Scapens

 

14.50-16.10

Parallel Session 4C

 

Killian, O’Regan, Lynch & O’Regan

“Not tax people”: tax expert perspectives on media coverage of tax issues

Ewelina Zarzycka

 

Annika Beelitz

Watch Parallel Session 4C

Cho, Dobija, Krasodomska, She & Zarzycka

Stakeholders voicing of organizational unethical conduct: examining twitter communication

 

Sheila Killian

 

14.50-16.10

Parallel Session 4D

 

Murphy & Leaver

Exposure draft of a proposed financial reporting standard on sustainable cost accounting

 

Giulia Napolitano

 

Chee Yoong

 

Watch Parallel Session 4D

Napolitano

A neo-institutional bounded rationality perspective on accountinG

 

Richard Murphy

16.10-16.20

Coffee Break @ the Cafeteria 

 

 

 

16.20-17.20

 

Panel Discussion

 

 

Diane-Laure Arjaliès

Charles H. Cho

Andrea M. Romi

Stewart Smyth

 

“Opening Accounting: A Manifesto”

 

 

 

Ian Thomson

 

Watch the Panel Discussion

17.20-17.30

Closing session

 

 

 

Annika Beelitz & Elisavet Mantzari, Conference Co-chairs

 

Digital Booklet

You can view the digital conference booklet, which contains delegate instructions, abstracts of papers and the contact information of speakers and co-authors: view digital booklet

Please feel free to get in touch with our conference organising committee for any queries by emailing: aaeconference2022@contacts.bham.ac.uk 

The organising committee:

The conference was hosted online in conjunction with British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA), Interdisciplinary Perspectives Special Interest Group (IPSIG) and the University of Birmingham’s Department of Accounting, based at Birmingham Business School. If you are interested in becoming a BAFA member, further information can be found on the BAFA website.