Illinois International Accounting Symposium
Leuven, Belgium | May 19 – 22, 2025
Call for Papers
The 2025 Illinois International Accounting Symposium will be held jointly with the Accounting Research Group at KU Leuven’s Faculty of Economics and Business in Belgium.
Today’s rapidly evolving business and reporting environment is undergoing significant changes due to new regulations, heightened stakeholder expectations, and global initiatives aimed at improving transparency, accountability, and sustainability. The theme of the symposium will be “Regulatory Reform” (as related to accounting, corporate reporting, auditing, ESG, …). However, innovative papers on other subjects will also be welcome. Selection of papers will depend on novelty, quality, and incremental contribution to the accounting literature. Submitted papers must not have been published or submitted elsewhere.
Papers accepted for presentation at the symposium will be published in regular issues of The International Journal of Accounting, subject to satisfactory revisions and a positive review process. The symposium will contribute to the cost of travel of one author per paper.
Submit articles to The International Journal of Accounting here: https://www.worldscientific.com/page/tija/submission-guidelines
Please enter “2025 TIJA Symposium” for the submission category.
Questions about the symposium may be addressed to Leigh Meador at tijajournal@business.illinois.edu.
PhD Consortium
We will also be holding a doctoral consortium on the first day of the symposium (May 19) to assist up to 25 PhD students with the research and development of their dissertations. Further information about the PhD consortium can be found here: https://go.gies.illinois.edu/PhDConsortiumInfo
Symposium Organizers
Marleen Willekens, Director of the Symposium, KU Leuven, Belgium
Andreas Charitou, Director of PhD Consortium, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
A. Rashad Abdel-khalik, Managing Editor, TIJA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Simon Dekeyser, KU Leuven, Belgium
Additional details and registration will be available on our website here:
https://giesbusiness.illinois.edu/upcoming/international-accounting-symposium
See previous editions here:
2024 Illinois International Accounting Symposium Call for Papers and PhD Consortium Application
