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The Review of Accounting Studies provides an outlet for significant academic research in accounting including theoretical, empirical, and experimental work. The journal is committed to the principle that distinctive scholarship is rigorous. While the editors encourage all forms of research, it must contribute to the discipline of accounting. Theoretical models need not speak directly to current practice, but accounting information must surface in a major way. Similarly, empirical analysis and experimental tests should relate principally to accounting issues.
The Review of Accounting Studies is owned and published four times a year by Springer. Every Fall, RAST holds a Review of Accounting Studies Conference.
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London Business School
Regent's Park
London
NW1 4SAE-mail: rast_journal@london.edu
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Review of Accounting Studies provides an outlet for significant academic research in accounting including theoretical, empirical, and experimental work. The journal is committed to the principle that distinctive scholarship is rigorous. While the editors encourage all forms of research, manuscripts must contribute to the discipline of accounting. The Review of Accounting Studies is committed to prompt turnaround on the manuscripts it receives and strives to commit to accept-reject decisions early in the review process. Consequently, the majority of accepted manuscripts receive that decision for the initial submission or first revision. Authors are provided the opportunity to revise accepted manuscripts in order to accommodate reviewer and editor comments; however, discretion over such manuscripts resides principally with the author(s). Due to the policy of committing to accept-reject decisions early in the process, a revise and resubmit decision is generally reserved for new submissions that are not currently acceptable, but for which the editor sees a clear path of changes that would make the manuscript publishable.
- Editorial Board
Eric Allen, University of California Riverside
Dan Amiram, Tel Aviv University
Daniel Aobdia, Pennsylvania State University
Tim Baldenius, Columbia University
Karthik Balakrishnan, Rice University
Andy Call, Arizona State University
Mary Ellen Carter, Boston College
Maria Correia, London School of Economics
Alper Darendeli, Nanyang Technological University
Peter Demerjian, Georgia State University
Aiyesha Dey, Harvard Business School
Michael Drake, Brigham Young University
Atif Ellahie, University of Utah
Aytekin Ertan, London Business School
Weili Ge, University of Washington
Jonathan Glover, Columbia University
Stephen Hillegeist, Arizona State University
Paul Hribar, University of Iowa
Michael Jung, University of Delaware
Jagan (Krish) Krishnan, Temple University
Chad Larson, University of Houston
Henry Laurion, University of Colorado Boulder
Alastair Lawrence, London Business School
Reuven Lehavy, University of Michigan
Ke Li, Santa Clara University
Xi Li, London School of Economics
Edward Maydew, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Partha Mohanram, University of Toronto
James Naughton, University of Virginia
Aneesh Raghunandan, London School of Economics
Robert Resutek, University of Georgia
Kristina Rennekamp, Cornell University
Darren Roulstone, Ohio State University
Stephen Ryan, New York University
Lorien Stice-Lawrence, University of Southern California
Daniel Taylor, University of Pennsylvania
Siew Hong Teoh, University of California, Irvine
Jennifer Wu Tucker, University of Florida
Mohan Venkatachalam, Duke University
Christopher Williams, University of Michigan
Teri Yohn, Emory University
Haifeng You, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Sarah Zechman, University of Colorado Boulder
Jieying Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas
Christina F. Zhu, University of Pennsylvania
Luo Zuo, Cornell University - Conferences
Call for Papers
Review of Accounting Studies 2024 Conference
Current Topics in Accounting Research
Friday, 13 December and Saturday, 14 December
LOCATION: University of Washington, Seattle, WA
The Editors of the Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) are pleased to announce a conference on “Current Topics in Accounting Research” to be hosted by the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. Papers accepted for the conference are also considered for publication in RAST’s September Conference Issue.
TOPICS: We encourage the submission of papers addressing diverse accounting topics, such as valuation, accounting quality, analysts/intermediaries, capital markets, debt markets, banking, fin-tech, private firms, corporate social responsibility, sustainability reporting, disclosure, auditing, and tax. Submissions should align with RAST’s high standards of academic rigor.
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE: Preference will be given to papers that provide meaningful implications that are relevant to researchers and have the potential to inform policies and practices.
FURTHER INFORMATION: The deadline for conference submissions is May 24, 2024, by 11:59 PM, GMT. All papers submitted, including those not accepted for the conference, will still be considered for possible publication in RAST. Authors will be informed of editorial decisions for the conference by late-August 2024. A cash prize of $5,000 will be awarded for the best paper based on a vote of conference attendees.
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Conference papers should be submitted via the Editorial Manager with a submission fee of US$500.
Preliminary Call for Papers: 2026 RAST-IASB Conference
The Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) Editors, in collaboration with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), are pleased to announce a preliminary Call for Papers for the 2026 RAST-IASB Conference. The conference, themed "Information for Investors: Trends and Challenges," is scheduled to take place December 2026 at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business.
We invite submissions with specific interest in the following areas:
- How have changes in information sources and analytical tools over the past several decades affected the way investors from multiple jurisdictions make use of financial statement information? What is the impact of these changes on investors’ research processes; and how are investors gathering and using information? To what extent does additional information replace or supplement accounting information?
- What is the impact of greater availability of tagged information on investor decision making? How are investors using tagged data? Are investors broadening the portfolios of companies they follow because of XBRL tagging in financial statements?
- How does the use of accounting information differ between groups of investors, particularly those who are under-researched (including loan providers, bond and active quant investors)? How does accounting shape the behaviour of these different groups in different sectors – large-listed companies vs SMEs (small and medium sized companies)?
- How does accounting information affect the way equity holders exercise their voting rights?
- How can standard setters learn more about and respond to investors’ information needs? Which groups of investors are regular users versus marginal users of accounting information?
We will also be considering papers on “current topics in accounting” in addition to those listed above.
Submission details: We will begin accepting papers for this conference starting January 2026. More details will be forthcoming.
- Contacts
Rosita Alvarado
Administrative ManagerReview of Accounting Studies
London Business School
Regent's Park
London
NW1 4SAE-mail: rast_journal@london.edu
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Review of Accounting Studies Editors
Lakshmanan Shivakumar
London Business School
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