Auckland Region Accounting Conference 2025

Date: Monday 1 Dec, 9am - 5pm
Location: Sir Paul Reeves Building
2 Governor Fitzroy Place
Auckland
New Zealand
Cost: Free
Contact: ara2025@aut.ac.nz
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Auckland Region Accounting Conference 2025 12/01/2025 09:00 12/01/2025 17:00 The Accounting department, Auckland University of Technology (AUT), is hosting the 22nd Auckland Region Accounting (ARA) Conference at the AUT City Campus. The Sir Paul Reeves Building, 2 Governor Fitzroy Place, Auckland , New Zealand
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The Accounting department, Auckland University of Technology (AUT), is hosting the 22nd Auckland Region Accounting (ARA) Conference at the AUT City Campus. The ARA Conference is sponsored by the Auckland area tertiary institutions – AUT, Manukau Institute of Technology, Massey University, Unitec Institute of Technology and the University of Auckland.

Conference theme and objectives

The conference theme is 'Climate, Sustainability and the Future of Reporting in Aotearoa'. The conference has the following objectives:

  • To provide a forum for academics to showcase their research.
  • To promote research interaction and collaboration among its participants.
  • To introduce postgraduate students and emerging researchers to a conference environment and meet with their peers from other institutions.

Speakers and panellists

Plenary speakers at the conference will be:

Call for papers

The ARA conference encourages a broad interpretation of the conference theme. The conference committee will consider papers from all areas of accounting but will encourage submissions of papers dealing with the conference theme.

Papers should be submitted as Word documents. As papers will be subject to blind peer review, please state the name(s), email address(es) and institutional detail(s) of the author(s) only on the title page, a separate page in the front of the manuscript. The abstract of the paper should appear on top of the first page of the manuscript.

To submit papers, or for more information, please contact Dr Humayun Kabir or Dr Lucy Wei at ara2025@aut.ac.nz.

Key dates

  • Submission of papers by 30 September 2025, 5pm NZDT
  • Submit to ara2025@aut.ac.nz
  • Submissions will be double-blind peer reviewed. Decisions will be emailed to the submitting author within three weeks of the paper’s submission deadline.
  • Registration by 7 November 2025

Awards and recognitions:

  • Three prizes will be awarded for the best papers, including one for the best postgraduate research paper. We strongly encourage postgraduate and doctoral students to participate and submit their work.
  • Only full papers submitted to the conference for presentations will be considered for the Best Paper Awards.

Conference organizers

Sponsors

This year’s ARA conference is proudly sponsored by ACCA, CPA Australia and CAANZ.

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