We are pleased to announce the 25th annual Financial Reporting and Business Communication (FRBC) Conference organised by the University of Cagliari and the BAFA FARSIG. University of Cagliari is located in the island of Sardinia in Italy. This is one of the premier conferences of its kind worldwide and attracts an international audience. The conference, supported by ICAEW charitable trusts, comprises parallel full paper with discussants, developmental paper sessions and a doctoral stream.
The conference addresses key areas of Accounting and Financial reporting, which are of interest to accounting academics and practitioners and includes:

The purpose of the modern corporate report
The effectiveness of financial and non-financial reporting standards
Accounting measurement and disclosure
Sustainability, integrated and environmental reporting
The composition and format of corporate reports and the role of infographics
Corporate governance and sustainability
Corporate reporting and accountability in the public sector
The role of financial reporting and corporate governance in capital markets
Historical perspectives on accounting or corporate reporting
Papers are invited on these topics and on other aspects of financial and non-financial reporting and business communication. Papers may take empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches, including case studies or experiments.

Abstracts or full papers could be submitted by 19th April 2022 by emailing frbc@unica.it. For informal queries you can email melisa@unica.it OR sgaia@essex.ac.uk. Please submit an abstract and full paper (up to 12,000 words) for parallel sessions. Discussants will be allocated to full paper submissions and we expect that all presenters of full papers will be prepared to act as discussants on other papers. Please submit an abstract (maximum 500 words) or short developmental paper (up to 5,000 words) for developmental paper sessions. Exceptionally good papers are welcomed for submission for a fast-track review in European Management Journal or Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting or Journal of Management and Governance.

For doctoral students wishing to present in the doctoral stream, a 500-word abstract should be submitted by 19 April 2022 to dbaboukardos@audencia.com. A Sue Hrasky Scholarship is available for 2022 to doctoral students in the doctoral stream. This comprises a doctoral fee waiver, receipted travel within Italy to the conference, subsistence and accommodation costs related to the conference. Applications should be in the form of a structured abstract and email entitled FRBC Scholarship/authors’ name. The award of the Scholarship will be announced during May 2022.

Andrea Melis melisa@unica.it Silvia Gaia sgaia@essex.ac.uk