Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting (ISSN: 1946-052X)

Description

Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting (AJFA) is an internationally refereed journal published twice annually in June and December. The Journal is dedicated to the development, promotion and understanding of finance and accounting in their widest sense. Its main objective is to provide an online forum to disseminate findings of research in the fields of finance and accounting worldwide.
The editorial board welcomes original submissions in English. Apart from research articles it also accepts research notes. The number of words for a research article should preferably be between 5,000 and 8,000 and that for a research note should preferably be between 2,000 and 3,000. The Editorial Board also welcomes reviews of books published in English. The maximum number of words for a book review should be 1,000.
The following are some of the topical areas (but not limited to) relevant to the journal:
Finance:
- Behavioural finance
- Efficiency of stock and foreign exchange markets
- International parity conditions
- Valuation of securities
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Cost of capital and capital budgeting
- Modelling time-varying volatility of financial assets
- Time-varying correlations, betas and copulas
- Market microstructure
- Islamic finance
Accounting:
- Financial reporting and international financial reporting standards
- Public sector accounting and auditing
- Corporate governance
- Audit expectation gap
- Market for audit services
- Determinants of job satisfaction of accounting academics
- Determinants of various disclosures in company annual reports
- Earnings management
- Auditing standards