Editor-in-Chief

Partha Mohanram, University of Toronto

 

Deputy Editors-in-Chief

Khim Kelly, University of Central Florida

Linda Myers, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

Consulting Editors

Yves Gendron, Université Laval

Michael Welker, Queen’s University

 

Editors

Christopher Agoglia, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Francois Brochet, Boston University

Daniel Cohen, Vanderbilt University

Gus De Franco, Tulane University

Elizabeth Demers, University of Waterloo

Alexander Edwards, University of Toronto

Anne Farrell, Miami University

Weili Ge, University of Washington

Omrane Guedhami, University of South Carolina

Phillip Lamoreaux, Arizona State University

Stephannie Larocque, University of Notre Dame

Scott Liao, University of Toronto

Hai Lu, University of Toronto

Matthew Lyle, Emory University

Raj Mashruwala, University of Calgary

Jeffrey Pittman, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Naomi Rothenberg, University of Alberta

Crawford Spence, King's College London

Anup Srivastava, University of Calgary

Jacob Thornock, Brigham Young University

Jennifer Tucker, University of Florida

Dushyantkumar Vyas, University of Toronto

Dechun Wang, Texas A&M University

Brian White, Cornell University

Donghui Wu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Editorial Board

Ana Albuquerque, Boston University

Kristian Allee, University of Arkansas

Marcia Annisette, York University

Hamilton Asay, University of Iowa

Vishal Baloria, University of Connecticut

Matt Bamber, York University

Andrew Bauer, University of Waterloo

Tim Bauer, University of Waterloo

Erik Beardsley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Darren Bernard, University of Washington

Jeremy Bertomeu, Washington University in St. Louis

Pietro Bianchi, Florida International University

Kenneth Bills, Michigan State University

Bradley Blaylock, The University of Oklahoma

Jennifer Blouin, University of Pennsylvania

Donna Bobek Schmitt, University of South Carolina

Samuel Bonsall, The Pennsylvania State University

Jan Bouwens, University of Amsterdam

Francesco Bova, University of Toronto

Marion Brivot, Université Laval

Jeffrey Burks, University of Notre Dame

Dmitri Byzalov, Temple University

Jeffrey Callen, University of Toronto

Eddy Cardinaels, Tilburg University

Mary Ellen Carter, Boston College

Pablo Casas-Arce, Arizona State University

Judson Caskey, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

Cory Cassell, University of Arkansas

Monika Causholli, University of Kentucky

Sandra Chamberlain, The University of British Columbia

Akash Chattopadhyay, University of Toronto

Feng Chen, University of Toronto

Xia Chen, Singapore Management University

Lin Cheng, China Europe International Business School

Stephanie Cheng, Tulane University

Jongwoon (Willie) Choi, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Brant Christensen, Brigham Young University

Dane Christensen, University of Oregon

Mahfuz Chy, University of Missouri

Roman Chychyla, University of Miami

James Chyz, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Shana Clor-Proell, Texas Christian University

Jenelle Conaway, George Mason University

Lauren Cunningham, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Asher Curtis, University of Washington

Derek Dalton, Clemson University

Masako Darrough, The City University of New York

Henri Dekker, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Hemang Desai, Southern Methodist University

Aiyesha Dey, Harvard University

Mary Kate Dodgson, Northeastern University

Yiwei Dou, New York University

Michael Drake, Brigham Young University

Fei Du, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sylvain Durocher, University of Ottawa

Frank Ecker, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Matthew Ege, Texas A&M University

Luminita Enache, University of Calgary

Vivian Fang, University of Minnesota

Krista Fiolleau, University of Waterloo

Annita Florou, Università Bocconi

Fabio Gaertner, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Pingyang Gao, The University of Hong Kong

Lisa Gaynor, University of South Florida

David Godsell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nathan Goldman, North Carolina State University

Isabella Grabner, WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

Emily Griffith, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Ryan Guggenmos, Cornell University

Lan Guo, Wilfrid Laurier University

Ilan Guttman, New York University

Nicholas Hallman, The University of Texas at Austin

Christie Hayne, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Darren Henderson, Wilfrid Laurier University

Darlene Himick, University of Ottawa

Christian Hofmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Chris Hogan, Michigan State University

Jeffrey Hoopes, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Yu Hou, Queen's University

Andrew Imdieke, University of Notre Dame

Raffi Indjejikian, University of Michigan

Andrew Jackson, University of New South Wales

Karim Jamal, University of Alberta

Sudarshan Jayaraman, University of Rochester

Nicole Johnson, University of Oregon

Michael Jung, University of Delaware

Kiridaran Kanagaretnam, York University

Tony Kang, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Urooj Khan, The University of Texas at Austin

Marcus Kirk, University of Florida

April Klein, New York University

Zachary Kowaleski, The University of Texas at Austin

Ranjani Krishnan, Michigan State University

Jake Krupa, Tulane University

Thomas Kubick, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Eva Labro, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Stacie Laplante, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Volker Laux, The University of Texas at Austin

Joshua Lee, Brigham Young University

Melissa Lewis-Western, Brigham Young University

Bin Li, University of Houston

Bing Li, City University of Hong Kong

Chan Li, University of Kansas

Yue Li, University of Toronto

Theresa Libby, University of Central Florida

Ling Lisic, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Petro Lisowsky, Boston University

Henock Louis, The Pennsylvania State University

Maria Loumioti, The University of Texas at Dallas

Ross Lu, University of Waterloo

Daniel Lynch, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Guang Ma, McGill University

Michel Magnan, Concordia University

Eldar Maksymov, Arizona State University

Bertrand Malsch, Queen's University

Kevin Markle, Michigan State University

Stanimir Markov, The University of Texas at Dallas

Christina Mashruwala, University of Alberta

Susan McCracken, McMaster University

John McInnis, The University of Texas at Austin

Devan Mescall, University of Saskatchewan

Martin Messner, Universität Innsbruck

James (Robbie) Moon, Georgia Institute of Technology

Jan Mouritsen, Copenhagen Business School

James Myers, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Suresh Nallareddy, Duke University

Terry Neal, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Nathan Newton, Florida State University

Kara Obermire, Oregon State University

Gaizka Ormazabal, University of Navarra

Bugra Ozel, University of Texas at Dallas

Shailendra (Shail) Pandit, University of Illinois Chicago

Lee Parker, University of Glasgow

Andrea Pawliczek, University of Colorado Boulder

Bradley Pomeroy, University of Waterloo

Adam Presslee, University of Waterloo

MaryJane Rabier, Washington University in St. Louis

Vaughan Radcliffe, Western University

Abu Rahaman, University of Calgary

Nayana Reiter, University of Toronto

Gordon Richardson, University of Toronto

Michelle Rodrigue, Université Laval

Darren Roulstone, The Ohio State University

Saan Saiy, University of Waterloo

Steven Salterio, Queen’s University

Roy Schmardebeck, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Andrew Schmidt, North Carolina State University

Timothy Seidel, Brigham Young University

Mani Sethuraman, Cornell University

Cathy Shakespeare, University of Michigan

Ron Shalev, University of Toronto

Jae Yong Shin, Seoul National University

Zvi Singer, HEC Montréal

David Smith, RMIT University

Blake Steenhoven, Queen's University

Sarah Stein, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Hervé Stolowy, HEC Paris

Quinn Swanquist, The University of Alabama

Hongping Tan, McGill University

Hun-Tong Tan, Nanyang Technological University

Jane Thayer, Georgia Institute of Technology

Jie Tian, University of Waterloo

Xiaoli Tian, Georgetown University

Erin Towery, University of Georgia

Albert Tsang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Brady Twedt, University of Oregon

Kevin Veenstra, McMaster University

Eija Vinnari, Tampere University

Aida Wahid, University of Toronto

Beverly Walther, Northwestern University

Elaine Wang, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Xue Wang, The Ohio State University

Yini Wang, University of Miami

Daniel Wangerin, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Kimberly Westermann, California Polytechnic State University

Benjamin Whipple, University of Georgia

Robert Whited, North Carolina State University

Heather Wier, University of Alberta

Brian Williams, Indiana University

Christopher Williams, University of Michigan

Ryan Wilson, University of Iowa

M.H. Franco Wong, University of Toronto

David Wood, Brigham Young University

Baohua Xin, University of Toronto

Minlei Ye, University of Toronto

Ira Yeung, The University of British Columbia

Tzachi Zach, The Ohio State University

Amy Zang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Rong Zhao, University of Calgary

Haiwen Zhang, University of Minnesota

Huai Zhang, Nanyang Technological University

Jenny Li Zhang, The University of British Columbia

Ning Zhang, Queen's University

Ping Zhang, University of Toronto

Tianyu Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Yuan Zhang, The University of Texas at Dallas

Yuping Zhao, University of Houston

Wuyang Zhao, The University of Texas at Austin

Jian Zhou, University of Hawaii

Wei Zhu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Aleksandra Zimmerman, Florida State University

Managing Editor

Sylvia Siemens

 

Editorial Support Team

Judy Tran

Carina Hackett

Sadie Hall

Judith Russell

 

Past Editors

Alan Webb (2020-2022)
Michael Welker (2017-2020)
Patricia C. O’Brien (2013–2017)
Steven E. Salterio (2010–2013)
Michel Magnan (2007–2010)
Gordon D. Richardson (2000–2006)
Gerald A. Feltham and Dan A. Simunic (1997–2000)
Lane A. Daley (1995–1997)
Michael Gibbins (1992–1995)
William R. Scott (1989–1992)
Haim Falk, Editor Emeritus (1984–1989)

Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) publishes leading-edge research that contributes to our collective understanding of accounting’s role in organizations, markets or society. Canadian-based and global in scope, CAR seeks to reflect the worldwide intellectual diversity in accounting research.  Therefore, CAR welcomes interesting and intellectually rigorous work in all topic areas of accounting, using any appropriate method, and based in any discipline or research tradition that can contribute to accounting knowledge.

The Editor-in-Chief (EIC) has ultimate responsibility for ensuring the quality of the journal. The EIC assesses each submitted manuscript to determine whether its topic falls within CAR’s Aims and Scope, and whether the likelihood of success is sufficiently high to merit review. If not, the paper is returned to the authors without review. If the paper merits review, the EIC assigns it to an Editor with relevant expertise. From time to time, we may draw on Consulting Editors or members of the Editorial Board to serve as ad hoc Editors.

CAR strives to offer authors a fair, constructive, expert, and timely review process. The Editor assigned to a specific manuscript is responsible for the entire editorial and peer review process, subject to oversight by the EIC. The Editor normally assigns two reviewers, who provide review reports and recommendations. CAR discourages reviewers from attempting to identify authors, and requires them to report any known conflicts of interest. The Editor decides on the paper’s disposition, using the review reports as input, and communicates with the authors. The EIC reviews all decisions to accept papers for publication.

Authors are jointly responsible for adhering to the highest standards of academic integrity in the conduct, writing and presentation of their research.  Authors must submit a declaration of academic integrity, agreed by all authors, with any new submission.

Beginning January 1, 2024, authors must make a declaration on the use of generative AI during the manuscript submission process, in accordance with the CAAA Journals’ Statement on the Use of Generative AI. 

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Previously, these waivers have not had an expiry date.

Effective April 19th, 2017, CAR’s process for fee waivers changed. Please see below for details.

New Process

All reviews completed within 30 days of the original reviewer invitation will be considered prompt. Upon completion of two prompt reviews, a reviewer is eligible for a waived submission fee on a new submission to CAR. Each review is eligible to be applied towards a waived submission fee for five years from the date of review completion.

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Waivers are non-transferable, not valid for previous submissions, and not eligible for refund in the instance a manuscript is desk-rejected. If you pay a submission fee and subsequently wish to claim a waiver instead, you must email car@caaa.ca within 48 hours of payment.

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Reviews completed for the annual CAR conference are considered prompt if they are completed on or before the conference review deadline. In addition, an exception will be granted for reviews completed within 45 days of the original reviewer invitation for invitations issued between March 26, 2020 and December 31, 2020.

Past prompt reviews and existing waivers

Reviews completed on or before 31-Dec-2014 will expire on 31-Dec-2019. As noted above, all later prompt reviews will be considered eligible for five years from the date the prompt review was completed.

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All waivers issued for manuscripts that have been withdrawn will expire on the earlier of; the date specified in the editor’s decision letter, or 31-Dec-2019.

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Reviewer fee waivers must be redeemed within 5 years from the date the first prompt review was completed, failing which the waiver shall be forfeited. Waivers have no monetary value and are not transferrable. CAR reserves the right to change the terms of its reviewer fee waivers program at any time. We will notify you of any changes by posting an updated version of this editorial policy, which changes shall take effect 30 days after the changes are posted. CAR also reserves the right to discontinue the reviewer fee waivers program at any time, including the right to cancel any eligibility for fee waivers that have not been redeemed at the time of discontinuation, with or without notice and without any liability. This Agreement will be governed by and construed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of Ontario and the applicable federal laws of Canada without giving effect to its conflict of law principles.

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