[Conference] 2026 Accounting & Business Research – International Accounting Policy Forum (IAPF)
December 14-15, 2026, IÉSEG School of Management, Lille campus
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We are pleased to invite you to the 2026 Accounting and Business Research International Accounting Policy Forum (IAPF). This year’s forum will be held at IÉSEG School of Management, Lille, France, starting at 12.00 on Monday December 14th and finishing at 15.00 on Tuesday December 15th.
Organizers
- Christof Beuselinck (IÉSEG School of Management, local organizer)
- Mark Clatworthy, Juan Manuel Garcia Lara & Edward Lee (Editors, Accounting and Business Research)
Generously sponsored by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), and kindly hosted by IÉSEG, the IAPF aims to bring together academic researchers and accounting professionals and regulators to discuss important international accounting policy issues.
The theme of this year’s forum is The role of accounting in economic development and the programm includes the following speakers:
- Hans Christensen (Booth School of Business, University of Chicago) – Extra-territorial supply-chain regulations in developing countries
- Annita Florou (Bocconi University) – Sustainability reporting information and economic development
- Jennifer Blouin (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) – Accounting-based taxation and economic development
- Thomas Bourveau (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford) – Innovation in capital market regulation
- Paul Munter (Former SEC Chief Accountant) – Professional ethics, accounting policy in economic development
If you have any queries about the event, please email us at abr-editor@bristol.ac.uk.
The IAPF was formed in 2006 and is an especially prestigious and influential forum, designed to bring together academics, professional accountants and standard setters to discuss the important accounting and corporate governance issues of the day. The forum has featured several highly-cited articles and views of prominent scholars.
Overview
The International Accounting Policy Forum is an annual special issue of Accounting and Business Research published since 2006 in collaboration with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). It serves as a platform to disseminate the research and opinions of thought leaders in the international academic accounting community on important accounting policy issues.
Through its associated conferences, jointly organized with the ICAEW, and through the publication of accompanying practitioner discussions to the academic manuscripts, it plays a highly valuable role in facilitating the exchange of ideas between academics, practitioners and regulators.
Some of the most widely read and highly cited articles in this series of special issues include:
- Ray Ball (2006) International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS): pros and cons for investors
- Ray Ball (2016) IFRS – 10 years later
- Mary Barth (2007) Standard-setting measurement issues and the relevance of research
- Anne Beatty (2007) How does changing measurement change management behaviour? A review of the evidence
- Philip Brown (2011) International Financial Reporting Standards: what are the benefits?
- John Coffee (2019) Why do auditors fail? What might work? What won’t?
- Wayne Landsman (2007) Is fair value accounting information relevant and reliable? Evidence from capital market research
- Charles M. C. Lee (2014) Performance measurement: an investor’s perspective
- Christian Leuz (2010) Different approaches to corporate reporting regulation: How jurisdictions differ and why
- Stephen Penman (2007) Financial reporting quality: is fair value a plus or minus?
- Peter Pope and Stuart McLeay (2011) The European IFRS experiment: objectives, researches, and some early evidence
- Katherine Schipper (2010) How can we measure the costs and benefits of changes in financial reporting standards?
- Jerold Zimmerman (2016) The role of accounting in the 21st century firm
venue
27, Boulevard Vauban, 59000 Lille, France
