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Some Tips on Refereeing for Academic Journals

This post is based on an “interview” I did for publons a couple of years back. I hope that you find it interesting and useful.   Managing invitations – At what stage does an early career scientist become qualified to peer review? Once they have graduated with their PhD and/or when they have published one or two of their own relevant papers in reasonable quality journals (I think that its important to have had firsthand…
Robert Faff
Robert Faff
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HOW TO Reverse-engineer an Accounting Pitch: RE#1 – “SEC comment letters and insider sales” [Deechow, et al, 2015, TAR]

For students beginning their training in research, academic literature can be wordy and hard to understand. Often students will try to read research articles like a novel – starting at the beginning and getting lost before the end. Student’s may highlight paragraphs and take notes, however these can be of limited value without a structured framework that allows your observations to be recorded in a format that can be used as a learning tool and…
Robert Faff
Robert Faff
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On the Art of Pitching your Accounting Research

In this blog post I link Kinney’s famous 3 paragraphs, pitching research and the “elevator pitch”. The post builds on my earlier posts on the EAA ARC: * ““Pitching Research” to an accounting academic expert – a difficult task made easier”:  https://bit.ly/2NqpKTR * ***ACCOUNTING ROOKIE ALERT*** How to Pitch your Job Market Paper!: https://bit.ly/2MLQsd2   (1) How would I Pitch my Research to an Expert in the Field? The simple answer is to follow the…
Robert Faff
Robert Faff
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Publish or Perish!! — How to be a Good Coauthor: Advice for Ph.D. Students and Junior Faculty

Publish or Perish!!   How to be a Good Coauthor: Advice for Ph.D. Students and Junior Faculty Often in academia we hear the phrase “Publish or Perish.”  While intended to be comical, this phrase is very indicative of the life of doctoral students and junior faculty members seeking promotion or tenure.  While they will not surely die if they do not publish, they will find it difficult to attain rank advancements and/or research positions in academia.…
Chris Skousen
Chris Skousen
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The CARE conference

Since 2006, the annual CARE Conference has brought together leading industry experts and academic scholars to discuss topics relevant to financial analysis and valuation; research, teaching and practice of financial statement analysis and valuation; the quality of corporate financial statements; cross-border valuation issues; empirical research methods; forecasting firm and industry fundamentals; accounting for uncertainty and risk; the impact of the explosion of new information on capital markets; investing in developing capital markets; and fraud.  The…
Peter Easton
Peter Easton
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***ACCOUNTING ROOKIE ALERT*** How to Pitch your Job Market Paper!

Its great to know that there are ever increasing opportunities like the EAA Talent Workshop for accounting rookies to get themselves known to potential employers. Close to home for me, Downunder, we have the fledgling AFAANZ Rookie Camp on 22-23 November, 2018. So, if you are an accounting rookie what is my advice about “selling” your job market paper? My first simple message is – don’t think that the brilliance of your job market paper…
Robert Faff
Robert Faff
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EFRAG – EUROPEAN CORPORATE REPORTING LAB

Interesting opportunity at EFRAG:  CALL FOR CANDIDATES FOR THE EUROPEAN LAB STEERING GROUP    The European Commission’s recently adopted action plan on financing sustainable growth signalled an important development in the creation of a financial system that supports the EU’s climate and sustainable development agenda. It also called on EFRAG to establish a European Corporate Reporting Lab, which is intended to stimulate innovation in the field of corporate reporting in Europe by identifying and sharing…
GIOVANNA MICHELON
GIOVANNA MICHELON
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EAA Job Market, IE Madrid, November 2-3

Building Bridges between Young Talent and Academic Institutions: The EAA Job market for accounting academics will take place at IE Business School in Madrid on November 2-3 2018. The Talent Workshop website is at https://eaa-jobmarket.ie.edu/ and you can see a video of the event at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRj-rjpMrkk&amp;feature=youtu.be. Objectives Institutions of higher learning witness increasing mobility of PhD students and faculty. In addition, to short-term initiatives aiming at providing placement for PhD students and faculty for one semester and/or an…
SALVADOR CARMONA
SALVADOR CARMONA
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We simply can’t all be publishing in “top” journals!

We all know that publishing is hard (i.e., very competitive), especially in accounting (Swanson 2004; Wood 2016). Still, I feel that many academics, especially younger ones like myself do not grasp the full extent of this competiveness. As I will show in this blog, the sheer number of accounting researchers trying to publish in (top) accounting journals outnumbers the number of available &ldquo;slots&rdquo; in such journals many times. This provides a rather gloomy prospect for…
KRIS HARDIES
KRIS HARDIES
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On the Art of Pitching your Accounting Research

&nbsp;In this blog post I link Kinney&rsquo;s famous 3 paragraphs, pitching research and the &ldquo;elevator pitch&rdquo;. The post builds on my earlier posts on the EAA ARC: * &ldquo;&ldquo;Pitching Research&rdquo; to an accounting academic expert &ndash; a difficult task made easier&rdquo;: &nbsp;https://bit.ly/2NqpKTR * ***ACCOUNTING ROOKIE ALERT*** How to Pitch your Job Market Paper!: https://bit.ly/2MLQsd2 &nbsp; (1) How would I Pitch my Research to an Expert in the Field? The simple answer is to follow the…
Robert Faff
Robert Faff
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