Finance:
Accounting:
- Asset pricing
- Corporate finance
- Banking
- Market microstructure
- Behavioural finance
- Experimental finance
- Law and finance
- Finance in emerging and less developed economies
- Islamic finance
- Equity analysis and valuation, venture capital and initial public offerings
Accounting:
- Compliance with IASs and national GAAP, and impact on accountant judgement
- National GAAP and IASs harmonisation and strategies
- Financial measurement and disclosure, and the quality of information reported
- Accountability and social, ethical and environmental measurement and reporting
- Financial reporting and adoption of IASs by SMEs
- 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 governance in emerging and less developed economies
- 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
- Performance measurement and evaluation in profit and non-for-profit organisations, and public sector bodies
- Assessing, measuring and managing risk in performance evaluation
- Accounting education and professional development
- Public sector and not-for-profit accounting
- Accounting history, development and regional interaction
- Islamic accounting and auditing