African Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance

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African Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance (AJAAF)
Editor
Prof. Aida Sy
ISSN online
2046-8091
ISSN print
2046-8083
4 issues per year

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Impact factor (Clarivate Analytics) 2024
0.3 (5 Year Impact Factor 0.3)
JCI 0.05

With a population of 1 billion in 2009 living in 54 different countries, Africa has a diverse economy that includes trade, industry, agriculture and its own population resources. AJAAF provides a forum for exploring African research on current and future issues in business and beyond. It brings together interested faculty, professionals, policy makers, accounting/auditing/finance students, and others concerned with professional and regulatory matters in the corporate, university, schools of business, government and financial sectors.

Topics covered include

  • Current issues
  • Definition/role of bookkeeping, accounting and the audit of financial institutions
  • Standard-setting, governments, IFRS
  • Regulations, fraud, ethics and the role of finance
  • Corporate governance and new audit technologies for global entities
  • Regulation of the banking sector and accountability of government functions
  • Importance of the labour process
  • Accounting's role in international capital market reporting
  • Big corporations, international institutions
  • African critical studies, accounting history, accounting/auditing for global warming
  • Role of accounting in slavery/colonialism, production/exploitation of raw materials
  • Accounting and sustainable development
  • Accounting, auditing and money laundering
  • Education and training of future African leaders
  • The expansion of business in Africa

Objectives

The principal object of AJAAF is to serve accounting, auditing, finance and business researchers and practitioners across the African continent and beyond to allow them to disseminate their research findings to the business community.

Readership

The readership of AJAAF consists of academic institution professors, researchers, graduate students and accounting, auditing and finance professionals and business executives.

Contents

AJAAF publishes original papers, review papers, technical reports and case studies. Special Issues devoted to important topics within accounting, auditing and finance in Africa will occasionally be published.

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Editor

  • Sy, Aida, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York, USA
    (prof.aidasy@gmail.com)

Associate Editors

  • James, Kieran, University of the West of Scotland, UK
  • Mickhail, George, University of Wollongong, Australia

Advisory Board

  • Briggs, Susan, University of South Australia, Australia
  • Casta, Jean-Francois, Université Paris Dauphine, France
  • Degos, Jean-Guy, Montesquieu University, France
  • Smith, L. Murphy, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA
  • Tinker, Tony, Baruch College at the City University of New York, USA

Editorial Board Members

  • Akindayomi, Akinloye, University of Texas - Pan American, USA
  • Ambe, Cosmas M., University of Limpopo, South Africa
  • Formigoni, Henrique, Presbyterian University Mackenzie, Brazil
  • Forsberg, Per, Örebro University School of Business, Sweden
  • Garcia-Benau, Maria A., Universidad de Valencia , Spain
  • Ghodbane, Sana Ben, Tunisia University of Carthage, Tunisia
  • Imoniana, Joshua Onome, University of São Paulo, Brazil
  • Kannaiah, Desti, RMIT University, Vietnam
  • Mroczkowski, Nicholas A., Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
  • Nkamnebe, Anayo D., Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria
  • Opare, Solomon, Massey University, New Zealand
  • Sharma, Umesh, University of Waikato, New Zealand
  • Vieira, Elisabete Simões, University of Aveiro, Portugal
  • Wynne, Andy, IDLEMAT, UK
  • Zorio, Ana, Universidad de Valencia, Spain

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    • Submission process

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