Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR)

1. Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) Consulting Editor: Theresa Libby, University of Waterloo Editor-in-Chief: Patricia O’Brien, University of Waterloo

2. Who we are • An academic research journal published by the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) • One volume per calendar year with four issues per volume. • Occasional special issues and/or monographs are released as supplements to the regular issues. • CAR regularly ranks within top five accounting journals internationally and a Financial Times 45-listed journal

3. What we publish: • Research with broad appeal within accounting academe • Research contributing to the understanding of accounting’s role in organizations, markets or society • Canadian-based but global in scope; we seek to reflect the worldwide intellectual diversity in accounting research.  

4. What we publish - continued • CAR welcomes • interesting and intellectually rigorous work • in all topic areas of accounting, • using any appropriate method, • based in any discipline or research tradition • that can contribute to accounting knowledge

5. Editorial Process • Similar to The Accounting Review • Paper is vetted first by the EIC who sends it to an Editor with appropriate expertise • Blind review – Editors encouraged to select at least one reviewer from the editorial board • Tradition of extra support for dissertation papers; giving them the benefit of the doubt when editors are “on the fence” • Editors make the final editorial decision with EIC oversight although rare that the Editor’s view would be overturned

6. Editors • Margaret Abernethy, University of Melbourne • Christopher Agoglia, University of Massachusetts Amherst • Thomas Ahrens, United Arab Emirates University • Joseph V. Carcello, University of Tennessee • Peter Clarkson, University of Queensland and Simon Fraser University • Carol Ann Frost, University of North Texas • Yves Gendron, Université Laval • J. Douglas Hanna, Southern Methodist University • R. Lynn Hannan, Tulane University • Ole-Kristian Hope, University of Toronto • Steven Huddart, Pennsylvania State University • Khim Kelly, University of Waterloo • Susan Krische, American University • Clive Lennox, Nanyang Technological University • Sarah McVay, University of Washington • Partha S. Mohanram, University of Toronto • Thomas Omer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln • Jeffrey Pittman, Memorial University of Newfoundland • Marlene Plumlee, University of Utah • Florin Sabac, University of Alberta • Dan Segal, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya • Michael Welker, Queen’s University

7. CAR Conference • Held each year in late October; location varies across Canada • Call for papers comes out in April each yearwith acceptance notices going out in late July • Three possible editorial decisions for conference papers • Accept for conference, revise for journal • Reject for conference, revise for journal • Reject for conference and journal • Only 7 of approx. 120 papers submitted are selected for presentation • Quick first round review so many people target the conference submission date as a way to get a quick first round revise and resubmit

8. Questions? • Find out more about CAR and the CAAA here www.caaa.ca or email me directly talibby@uwaterloo.ca