CALL FOR PAPERS

10TH WORLD CONGRESS OF ACCOUNTING HISTORIANS

ST. LOUIS/OXFORD — AUGUST 1-5, 2004

ONE – TWO – THREE
ONE CONFERENCE—TWO LOCATIONS—THREE THEMES

The 10th World Congress of Accounting Historians will meet in the U.S. with a dual venue of
St. Louis, Missouri, and Oxford, Mississippi, from August 1-5, 2004. The Congress will commence in St. Louis on August 1 to celebrate the centenary of the first International Congress of Accountants that was held in St. Louis in 1904 as a part of the World's Fair commemorating the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis & Clark Expedition. The headquarters hotel will be the Renaissance Airport Hotel. The Congress will move by air-conditioned motor coaches to Oxford, Mississippi on August 3 to give delegates a chance to visit the National Library of the Accounting Profession at the University of Mississippi. The Ole Miss Library is the largest accountancy library in the world. The Alumni House Hotel will be the Congress headquarters. After the Congress, delegates may proceed to Orlando for the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting. It may be most convenient to continue your post-Congress air travel from nearby Memphis International Airport.

Papers are invited on any accounting history topic. Papers that address any of the three Congress themes are particularly desired. The three Congress themes are:

1. International Congresses of Accountants
2. Accounting for Transportation and Financial Industries
3. Archival-Based Accounting Research

The 10th World Congress is sponsored by the Academy of Accounting Historians. The co-conveners of the Congress are Richard Vangermeersch of the University of Rhode Island and Dale L. Flesher of the University of Mississippi. Manuscripts for review should be sent to:

Dr. Dale L. Flesher
Patterson School of Accountancy
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
Email: acdlf@olemiss.edu

Papers may be submitted in either hard-copy or electronic format (electronic submissions should be in either Microsoft^® Word or WordPerfect format). All papers should be submitted in English. Special consideration will be accorded those papers prepared by scholars who use English as a second language so as to facilitate the broadest acceptance and presentation of materials. The Congress program will focus around the best papers received. All papers will be double-blind refereed and, subject to consent, the accepted papers will be published as refereed Congress Proceedings on the Congress website. A hard-copy volume of abstracts will also be distributed. The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2004.