Forthcoming CAPANA Activities

- The Chinese Accounting Professors’ Association of North America’s Second Annual Research Conference (Please click here for details.)

The Chinese Accounting Professors’ Association of North America (CAPANA) invites both members and non-members of CAPANA to submit theoretical and empirical papers in all areas of accounting for the second CAPANA Annual Research Conference to be held in Beijing on July 2-3, 2009. We welcome both China related and non-China related papers. The objective of the annual conference is to bring together accounting scholars in North America and Asia to discuss a small number of accounting-related papers.

Past CAPANA Activities

- 2008 AAA Special Session on Implementation of IFRS

In August 2008, we had a panel for the CAPANA Roundtable Meeting in conjunction with the AAA National Meeting. The panel discussion was focused on the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Asia. Dr. Mary Barth from Stanford University (a member on the IASB), Dr. Rong-Ruey Duh (a member on the Taiwanese FASB), and Dr. Yanling Guan (faculty at the University of Hong Kong) led the discussions on the current development on IFRS, Taiwan’s experience to converge its GAAP with IFRS, Hong Kong’s issues in implementing IFRS, and China’s most recent reform in Chinese Accounting Standards.

- 2008 CAPANA AAA Mentoring Session (Please click here for details.)

- 2008 CAPANA Research Conference

The Chinese Accounting Professors’ Association of North America (CAPANA) held in Shanghai on June 11-13, 2008. The objective of the annual conference is to bring together accounting scholars in North America and Asia to discuss a small number of accounting-related papers. The first conference is sponsored by Chinese University of Hong Kong and National Accounting Institute of Shanghai.

- 2007 AAA Special session (Please click here for details.)

We will organize a special session on Accounting Research in China and Asia at the AAA annual meeting in 2007. Through organizing this special session, we hope to raise the interests of doing research in China and Asia by taking advantage of the institutional features of the region, bring this type of research to the mainstream and promote more interactions among researchers from Asian and North American universities. We will announce to members the details of the program in April.

Our annual AAA reception will follow this special session.

- 2007 AAA Panel on the International Supply of and Demand for Ph.D.s in Accounting

AAA annual meeting in 2007
Panel on the International Supply of and Demand for Ph.D.s in Accounting
Tuesday, August 7, 2007 10:30 am-12:00 pm
Moderator: John Christensen, University of Southern Denmark

Panelists:
Bhabatosh Banerjee, University of Calcutta
Salvadore Carmona, Instituto De Empressa Madrid
T.J. Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong (PPT Sides)

- Membership program

By setting up this website, we hope to increase our membership this year. As a member, you will be invited to all CAPANA’s activities and will periodically receive information about research activities and opportunities of the Pacific Rim. We are setting up a membership database, which will allow members to learn about each others’ research and teaching interests and will hopefully facilitate more exchanges among members.

- Networking activities

We plan to use the website to inform our members research activities in the Greater China. Every year, there are numerous research conferences in the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. We plan to ask the organizers to post their call for papers and participating in our new website.

To facilitate better networking, we are exploring the idea of organize a mentoring program for Phd students and young faculty at the AAA annual meeting. We will poll our members to find out the level of interest in such an activity.