JAAF CONFERENCE 2027

The Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance (JAAF) Conference is a distinguished global platform where scholars and practitioners engage in insightful discussions across various dimensions of accounting, auditing, and finance. Beyond enriching academic discourse, the conference provides valuable opportunities for networking, professional development, and cultural immersion for researchers worldwide.

Since its launch in 2015, the JAAF Conference has been successfully hosted in various countries through collaborations with local universities. The conference faced a temporary cancellation from 2020–2022 due to COVID-19 but successfully resumed in Helsinki in 2023. Past hosts include institutions such as Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, University of Calgary, University of Otago, Korea University Business School, Universidad de Chile, University of Vaasa, Hanken School of Economics, University of Napoli Federico II, Zayed University, Dubai, Nagoya, Japan.

Following these successful international collaborations, the conference continues to emphasize quality through defined structures and incentives. To encourage outstanding research, the conference offers incentives, including travel support for plenary presenters. Furthermore, additional awards—such as Best Paper and PhD Student Paper Awards—were introduced following the Helsinki event to recognize high-quality research with strong publication potential. Typically, the conference features 5–6 plenary-session papers and over 60 concurrent-session papers.

In 2027, the JAAF conference will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, from July 9 to 12, 2027. It is organised by Faculty of economics and business administration part of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski.

You can find more information for Sofia University bellow.

Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski is the first Bulgarian high academic school establishment. Its history is an embodiment and a continuation of the centurylong cultural and educational tradition of the Bulgarian nation.

In 1880 the Bulgarian Ministry of Education tabled a draft of the Main Educational Act for the Schools in the Principality of Bulgaria in the National Assembly. It envisaged that “after completing the requirements of the Real and Classical schools to open a Bulgarian high school (a University) that will teach the sciences of law, the arts, the sciences, the medical sciences, and the technological sciences.” In 1887, T. Ivanchev, minister of education, issued an Ordinance for the Opening of a Pedagogy Class Affiliated to the First Male Gymnasium in Sofia. The classes began on 1st. Oct., 1888. On 8th, Dec., 1888 the National Assembly passed an act transforming the latter into a High School; the act was promulgated on 1st, Jan., 1889 with Decree No. 159 published in the Government Gazette. Alexander Teodorov-Balan was elected its first Rector. In the provisional Statute adopted the establishment of a history-philological department was the only one envisaged. During the 1889/1890 academic year the physics-mathematical department was opened, and in 1892 the Faculty of Law was inaugurated.

Teaching economics goes back to 1892 when the newly opened Department of Law included political economy, finance and statistics in its curriculum. In 1904 the First School of Higher Education was renamed Sofia University. Economics continued to be taught at the Faculty of Law. The years after 1923 were more favourable for the development of higher education in Bulgaria. The postwar economic crisis was over and the national economy had picked up. The country was in need of more trained economists, administrators and teachers. On the third picture you can see Faculty of economics and business administration /FEBA/.