The second Alternative Accounts Europe Conference will be hosted by the University of Leicester School of Business on Thursday 9 January 2020.

The conference aims to bring together scholars interested in interdisciplinary and critical perspectives on accounts and accountings. We invite scholars to challenge dominant representations of accounting and to present alternative accounts of accounting practice, its diverse and multiple histories, contexts and constituents.

We are seeking contributions in the form of working papers but particularly encourage colleagues to present their material in non-conventional formats and utilise multiple media.

Topics to be addressed may include but are not limited to:

• Accountability

• Accounting for the public interest, plurality of publics, diversity

• Accounting profession, contested expertise, accounting scandals

• Audit, ethics, corporate governance and organisational culture

• Accounting as political practice, political economy, biopolitics, neoliberalism

• Accounting and social conflict, industrial relations, counter-accounting

• Interplay of management accounting practices, internal accountants and external consultants

• Formalities and informalities of management controls and performance measurement systems

• Social and environmental accounting, health and wellbeing accounting, biodiversity and ecological accounting

• Accounting and imperialism, post-colonial accounting

• Accounting aesthetics and organisational symbolism

• Accounting cosmologies, non-human accounts, multi-species accounting

• Social studies of finance and valuation

• Vernacular forms of accounting, iconographic and audio-visual accounts

• Divergent, polyphonic and pluripolar accounting histories

• Accounts of the digital: new accounts and new ways of accounting for digitalisation

Keynote speakers

Ingrid Jeacle (Edinburgh)

Ian Thompson (Birmingham)

Abstracts

Please submit an extended abstract by 31 October 2019 to rasa@leicester.ac.uk Authors will hear back from us by 15 November 2019.

Please feel free to get in touch with our conference organising team for any queries regarding potential submissions by email to rasa@leicester.ac.uk

Research in Accounting, Accountability and Society Unit (RASA)

Register

You can register to attend this conference here.