Greetings and G'day From New Zealand

New ***Emerging Scholars' Research Fund***

The Fifth Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting (APIRA) Conference is organized jointly by University of Canterbury, Auckland University of Technology, University of Waikato, and Victoria University of Wellington. It will be hosted in Auckland, New Zealand in 2007. This will be its 5th triennial conference, after successful conferences in Sydney (1995), Osaka (1998), Adelaide (2001), and Singapore (2004).

With a reputation for academic rigor, and the participation of accountancy's foremost thinkers, APIRA2007 promises to attract strong representation from accounting researchers the world over. Some of the most prolific researchers from the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, the Asia-Pacific region, and many other countries are represented in APIRA's International Editorial Committee. A strong interdisciplinary program of research papers and forums addressing the relationships between accounting, auditing and accountability and their social, institutional, economic and political environments will be included in the program.

So mark your diary, and plan to be in Auckland, the City of Sails, from 8 to 10 July 2007, for an exhilarating period of intensive discussions, debates, and networking with leading and emerging scholars in our field. Junior and recent faculty appointments and PhD students are invited to apply to attend the APIRA Emerging Scholars' Colloquium on 6-7 July, immediately preceeding the main conference.

We look forward to your presence at APIRA2007 in Auckland.

Paper submissions now closed.