Call for Papers

Call for Participation: Towards Continuous Audit Analytics with Big Data

The International Journal of Disclosure and Governance is delighted to present this call for presentations, papers and proposals for panels for the 35th World Continuous Auditing & Reporting Symposium. Appropriate papers will have the opportunity of being published in a special issue of the Journal.

Deadline for proposals: 17th August 2015

Read the Call for Participation for full details

News

JDG is now included in ABS' Academic Journal Quality Guide

We are pleased to announce that International Journal of Disclosure and Governance is now included in the Association of Business Schools' Academic Journal Quality Guide 2015. The guide assesses and ranks over 1,400 business and management publications - the full listing can be viewed here. Inclusion in the guide marks an important milestone for the journal. Congratulations to JDG on this achievement!

The Journal

The International Journal of Disclosure and Governance publishes a balance between academic and practitioner perspectives in law and accounting on subjects related to corporate governance and disclosure. In its emphasis on practical issues, it is the only such journal in these fields. All rigorous and thoughtful conceptual papers are encouraged. A wide variety of topics will be suitable for this special edition which has, in the past, included:

• What every investor should know about investor relations
• Making Sarbanes-Oxley 404 work: Reducing Cost, Increasing Effectiveness
• As gate-keepers, independent directors of public company’s face additional scrutiny and liability in the post-Enron/Worldcom world
• International corporate compliance programmes
• Audit committee membership: the interplay with general corporate law
• The impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on SEC enforcement in public company disclosure cases

To date, International Journal of Disclosure and Governance has published articles by personnel, a former general counsel and a former commissioner of the SEC, practitioners from Cleary Gottlieb, Skadden Arps, Wachtell Lipton, and Latham & Watkins as well as articles by academics from Harvard, Yale and NYU. The readership of the journal includes lawyers, accountants, and corporate directors and managers.

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Open access option for authors

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