Accounting Society and Environment 2022

This workshop will bring together researchers from around the world to present, discuss and debate their research projects. The workshop is intended as a forum to encourage research collaboration across institutions and disciplines and for the dissemination of research outputs.

The workshop theme is ‘The road to recovery: sustainability imperatives and the reshaping of public finance and accounting in the post-pandemic world’.

The global pandemic (COVID-19) has triggered one of the most severe economic recessions in nearly a century: it has materially reversed movement towards, and advancements achieved through, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); now more than ever the services of public and social organisations are needed by the most vulnerable in society.

The policy choices that governments make in their pandemic recovery plans will determine the level of movement towards developing a more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient future.  In the face of the problems outlined above, policy makers, accountants and business experts have a key role to play in the recovery from the crisis.  

Topics for the conference may include:

• The role of accounting in mapping the internal-external interface between public organisations and SDGs.
• Theoretical perspectives explaining how or why SDGs are embedded (or not) in public/third sector organisations accounting systems.
• The role of financial management leadership in strengthening diversity and sustainability in times of crisis.
• Sustainable development as a challenge for public financial management during and after COVID-19.
• Budgeting in the light of SDGs: how public and third sector entities are incorporating sustainable development in their strategies and programmes.
• Sustainable procurement and its future role in the public and third sectors.
• Transparency and legitimacy of governments: how sustainable development strategies affect the preparation of budgets and financial statements.
• Mainstreaming SDGs, organisational challenges, opportunities and strategies.
• Accountants’ views and perceptions of SDGs and their deliverability.
• Lean practices and sustainability – is lean thinking a contributor to, or a detractor from organisational sustainability?
• Public-private partnerships and sustainable infrastructure development.
• Cultures of resistance – has the pandemic become a rationale deployed to deflect progress towards the SDGs.
• The inequality, poverty, and sustainability crisis, an inconvenient truth or opportunity for organisational change?
• Critiques of the effectiveness and usefulness of SDGs in public, third sector and non-government organisations.
• Reframing corruption and governance: what COVID-19 has revealed about organisational governance, accountability, and leadership.

Find more information on the workshop website.

Speaker

Speakers will be selected from those submitting abstracts

Hosted by

University of Aberdeen

Venue

The event will take place online

Contact

CPD Services
University of Aberdeen
Room 28, University Office
Regent Walk
Aberdeen, AB24 3FX

Telephone:  +44(0)1224 272523
Email: cpdservices@abdn.ac.uk