American Journal of Finance and Accounting  (AJFA)
ISSN (Online): 1752-7775  -  ISSN (Print): 1752-7767

Published in 4 issues per year  (View Subscription Price)

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   Objectives

AJFA is dedicated to publishing high quality research papers focusing specifically on finance and accounting issues in North America.

   Readership

With a broadly defined scope, AJFA provides a valuable research and reference source for finance and accounting researchers, educators, students, policy makers, financial planners, forecasters and analysts, accounting and auditing professionals, bankers, and other decision makers in governmental, non-profit and financial institutions. AJFA caters for a readership not only within North American regions but also amongst those from outside with an interest in finance and accounting issues.

   Contents

AJFA publishes rigorous, original and high quality scholarly papers dealing with theoretical, empirical, applied, surveys, and case studies providing meaningful insights into the subject areas.

   Subject Coverage

Suitable topics for AJFA include but are not limited to:

• Finance
• Asset pricing
• Corporate finance
• Corporate governance
• Investments
• Portfolio management
• Capital markets and institutions
• Financial services regulations
• Financial innovation
• Derivative markets
• Insurance
• Banking
• Investment banking
• Financial markets and institutions
• Stock market
• Real estate
• Estate planning
• Retirement planning
• Mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and IPOs
• Issues of personal financial planning
• Accounting
• Accounting education
• Accounting information systems
• Accounting theory and practice
• Auditing
• Cost accounting
• Tax accounting
• Government and non-profit accounting
• Accountability and social, ethical and environmental measurement and reporting
• Cultural, political and institutional impact on financial measurement and disclosure practices
• Accounting practices for intellectual capital and other intangible assets
• Audit quality and auditor skills
• Provision of non-audit services and impairment to auditor independence
• Audit committees and corporate internal control and internal auditing
• Audit expectations gap, and assessing, measuring and managing risk in auditing
• Management accounting, control and use of key performance indicators
• Assessing, measuring and managing risk in performance evaluation
• Public sector and not-for-profit accounting

   Specific Notes for Authors


Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Submission of Papers web-page.

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details of file formats in Author Guidelines) to Prof. Mazhar Islam

Please include in your submission the title of the Journal

   Editors and Members of the Editorial Board


Editor in Chief

Prof. Mazhar M. Islam
Professor of Finance
Florida A&M University
Department of Accounting & Finance
School of Business and Industry
One SBI Plaza, 428 East Wing
Tallahassee, FL 32307-5200
USA
mazhar.islam@famu.edu



Associate Editors

Dr. Anthony Billings
Wayne State University
Department of Accounting
School of Business
Detroit MI 48202
USA

Dr. David P. Ely
Professor of Finance
San Diego State University
College of Business Administration
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego CA 92182-8236
USA

Prof. Christopher Ngassam
Professor of Finance
Florida A&M University
Department of Accounting and Finance
School of Business and Industry, 411EW
Tallahassee, FL 32307
USA

Editorial Board Members

Dr. Robert BalikRo
Western Michigan University
Finance & Commerical Law Department
Haworth College of Business
1903 West Michigan Av
Kalamazoo MI 49008
USA

Prof. Gin ChongGi
Texas A&M University - Prairie View
Department of Accounting, Finance and MIS
College of Business, Mail Stop #2310, Box 519
Prairie View, TX 77446-0519
USA

Dr. Uchenna ElikeUc
Professor and Director of MBA
Alabama A&M University
School of Business
Normal, AL 35762
USA

Dr. Alex FaserukAl
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Faculty of Business Administration
St. John's, NL A1B 3X5
CANADA

Dr. Azmat GaniAz
University of the South Pacific
Faculty of Business and Economics
P.O. Box 1168
Suva
FIJI

Dr. Hassan Hassab-ElnabyHa
The University of Toledo
Department of Accounting
College of Business Administration
Stranahan Hall 3034
Toledo, OH 43606-3390
USA

Dr. Fidelis IkemFi
Dean, Graduate School and Chief Research Officer
Winston-Salem State University
Winston-Salem, NC 27110
USA

Dr. Yusuf KarbhariYu
Reader in Accounting
Cardiff University
Cardiff Business School
Colum Drive
Cardiff CF10 3EU
UK

Dr. Alex Karlen-NgAl
University of Northern British
Columbia School of Business
3333 University Way
Prince George B.C. V2N 4Z9
CANADA

Prof. Erkki K. LaitinenEr
Professor of Accounting and Business Finance; Vice Chair
University of Vaasa
Department of Accounting and Business Finance
P.O.Box 700
FI-65101 Vaasa
FINLAND

Dr. Lokman MiaLo
Foundation Professor of Accounting; Director, COGAP (Centre for Organisational Governance and Performance Management); Co-Editor, Accounting, Accountability & Performance
Griffith University
Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
Nathan Campus
170 Kessels Road
Nathan, Queensland 4111
AUSTRALIA

Dr. John MooreJo
Virginia State University
Department of Accounting and Finance
School of Business
Petersburg, VA 23806
USA

Dr. Buagu MusaziBu
Associate Professor of Accounting
Morgan State University
Earl Graves School of Business and Management
Baltimore, MD 21251
USA

Dr. William A. OgdenWi
Professor of Finance
University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
Department of Finance and Accountancy
Eau Claire, WI 54702-9009
USA

Dr. Vivian O. OkereVi
Providence College
Department of Finance
Providence, RI 02918.
USA

Dr. Reza RahgozarRe
Professor of Finance and Chair
University of Wisconsin, River Falls
Department of Business Administration
College of Business and Economics
410 S. 3rd ST
River Falls, WI 54022-5001
USA

Dr. Mark O. TengesdalMa
Associate Professor of Finance
Texas Woman's University
School of Management
P.O. Box 425738
Denton, TX 76204-5738
USA

Dr. K.C. TsengK.
California State University at Fresno
Department of Finance and Business Law
Craig School of Business
5245 N. Backer Avenue
Fresno, CA 93740-0007
USA


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