SWAC Summer Edition 2027

Date and Location

The SWAC Summer Edition 2027 will take place at Hotel Schweizerhof Lenzerheide in Lenzerheide (Switzerland) from August 31 to September 03, 2027.

Overview

Join us for our accounting conference in one of the most beautiful regions of Switzerland surrounded by the imposing mountain landscape for two days of academic presentations and outdoor recreation.

The SWAC Summer Edition aims at bringing together European researchers from all accounting disciplines to give them the opportunity to discuss their research, to initiate new research ideas and to provide them with an excellent network opportunity in an inspiring atmosphere to develop our European accounting research community.

The scientific program will consist of plenary presentations and discussions of selected papers.

The SWAC Summer Edition is organized by the Managerial Accounting Section of the Institute for Accounting at the University of Bern and the Institute of Financial Analysis at the University of Neuchâtel.

Paper Submissions

We invite submissions of papers analyzing issues from all accounting disciplines, including managerial accounting, financial accounting, and auditing. Papers should use a quantitative empirical method (archival, experimental or survey).

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• The role of accounting information in agents' economic decisions
• The effect of accounting standards on managers' decisions
• Organizational design and management control systems
• Internal control systems and performance management
• Executive compensation
• Auditor choices and consideration of noncompliance with laws and regulations
• Governance and control of interfirm relationships
• Economic consequences of financial and non-financial disclosures

Submission deadline is April 1, 2027.
Please submit papers to swac.iuc@unibe.ch. Acceptance of papers will be announced one month later.

Registration deadline for the conference is June 15, 2027.

Please note: attendance at the conference is by invitation only.

Program