Call for Paper EGPA XII Permanent Study Group Public Sector Financial Management Workshop in Zurich-Winterthur (Switzerland), May 7-8, 2015 Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to the Spring Workshop organized by the EGPA Permanent Study Group XII “Public Sector Financial Management” to be held in Zurich-Winterthur, Switzerland, on May 7-8, 2015. The proposed theme for the 2015 Zurich-Winterthur workshop will be: The Accountant, the Economist and the Politician and other stories in Public Sector Financial Management The domain of public sector finance and financial management is concerned with decision taking at mainly three different levels: the broader macroeconomic goals and targets and within this domain, mainly debt control and debt management; the more political sphere of budget accounting, delivering information regarding resource allocation and budget execution; and microeconomic (financial) accounting, delivering information needed for management decision. With the worldwide financial crisis and the following European currency crisis, one could see all kinds of different scenarios: governments struggling because of unstable public finances, governments struggling because of bursting bubbles and banking sectors, but also governments able to get out of the crisis nearly undamaged or even such ones able of paying back debt. The accountant’s perspective on financial reporting is said to having entered the stage of the above mentioned systems as the last player. National Accounts and budgets were there before. What is the possible contribution of the youngest towards stable public finances? Is there any benefit from financial reporting without sound fiscal rules and policies? How can sound fiscal rules and policies be defined and who would do so? Have governments with modern financial accounting systems outperformed their colleagues with less developed systems regarding stable finances? Some of the issues to be discussed might be, among others:     The rivalry between economists and accountants, The symbiosis of fiscal rules and financial performance, The role of IPSAS towards performance of the financial management system, The link between fiscal rules, budgets and financial reports. Papers that fall within the general scope of public sector accounting and the implications of IPSASs are also welcome. The call for papers encompasses research works under both, the financial and the management accounting paradigms through all theoretical perspectives and research methods. Papers will be accepted for presentation upon the abstract. All abstracts (or full papers) will undergo a double blind review process and accepted papers will be distributed among conference participants. The workshop is also open to participants not presenting a paper. For more information on the workshop, please visit our website or contact us: Workshop Website: EGPA XII PSG Spring Workshop 2015 Workshop E-mail: [email protected] Join the Study Group on Linkedin! The 2015 Zurich-Winterthur Workshop is sponsored by Participation Fees The fee is €100 for registration before April 10, 2015, and €150 for late registration (after April 10, 2015). Key dates Abstract submission deadline: Acceptance notification to authors: Registration: Full paper submission: February 10, 2015 February 27, 2015 April 10, 2015 April 10, 2015. Abstract guidelines Abstracts should be up to 800 words long. They should include:  purpose of the paper,  research methodology,  main findings and implications. Personal data, academic position, affiliation, scientific area, postal address and e-mail contact must be written on a different page. Paper guidelines The paper must consist of 20 pages maximum (any page of 2.200 characters, spaces included, Times New Roman, text 12 and notes 10), including notes, diagrams, tables and bibliography. Either complete works or research in progress will be accepted as long as the aims of the researches, the methodology and the actual or expected results are clearly showed. Journal Special Issue It is planned to publish a special issue of an international journal due to come out by the end of 2015, gathering a symposium of 8 to10 selected papers of the workshop. Papers to be considered for the symposium should be submitted to [email protected] after the Zurich-Winterthur Workshop. Information on what journal has been chosen as well as on the respective journal guidelines and submission deadlines to be followed will be published in due time. About the Permanent Study Group The overall objective of the Study Group is to provide a forum whereby scholars and practitioners can present, discuss and debate their research, findings and thinking about the relevance and usefulness of international public sector accounting standards in the context of Public Administration, as well as to highlight and compare experiences of European and nonEuropean countries adopting IPSASs. The Study Group intends to critically explore the changing process and to forecast future development of IPSASB's Standards and Framework in order to define both their theoretical structure and practical implementation. Additionally, the Study Group aims to create a network of close collaboration among its participants. Therefore it is convening twice a year. The next meetings will occur within this workshop in Zurich-Winterthur in May 2015 and during the EGPA Annual Conference in autumn 2015. For more information on the workshop, please visit our website or contact us: Workshop Website: EGPA XII PSG Spring Workshop 2015 Workshop E-mail: [email protected] Join the Study Group on Linkedin! The 2015 Zurich-Winterthur Workshop is sponsored by