Accounting Tutorial 2025
University of Vaasa is happy to organize Accounting Tutorial 2025 in Vaasa next autumn. The schedule is September 1-2, 2025.
Accounting Tutorial brings together Ph.D. students and Professors in all areas of accounting to share their research interests and to discuss Ph.D. students’ research projects. It also provides an excellent forum for debate of emerging research ideas and developments in practice and research. Each Ph.D. student will have a nominated discussant to give feedback on her/his paper. The sessions will be in English.
Program
The event begins on Monday noon and ends on Tuesday around 4 pm.
A detailed program will be published later.
On Monday evening the participants will explore a reception organized by the City of Vaasa at the Governor’s House. After the reception a delicious dinner will be enjoyed at a local restaurant.
Organizing committee
Professor Marko Järvenpää
Associate Professor Mikko Ranta
Assistant Professor Elina Haapamäki
Speakers
The tutorial programme will also feature two excellent keynote speeches. These will address current issues in accounting and auditing research.
Professor Matthias D. Mahlendorf from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.
Professor Mahlendorf ranks among the top 20 researchers worldwide in the category “managerial accounting publications in the last six years” of the BYU Ranking. A ranking on the relevance of accounting research placed him at #1 in the category of managerial accounting. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School, a visiting professor at the University of Chicago (Booth School of Business) as well as an adjunct professor at INSEAD. He has published in journals such as Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, and The Accounting Review.
Professor Marleen Willekens from KU Leuven
Marleen Willekens is Professor of Accounting and Auditing at the AFI (Accounting, Finance & Insurance) department of KU Leuven’s Faculty of Economics. Her work is characterized by the use of economic theories to gain insights into auditor and audit firm choices and decision making, which are then empirically tested using archival or hand-collected data. To finance her research activities Marleen has been able to collect research excellence grants from various funding institutions. She was also the principal investigator of a study on the EU Statutory Audit Reform for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament. Marleen has published in the leading Accounting journals such as Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, and many other journals.
Venue
The Accounting Tutorial 2025 will take place at the School of Accounting and Finance of University of Vaasa.
Address: Wolffintie 32, 65200 Vaasa
Accomodation
University of Vaasa has partnered with Sokos Hotel Royal to provide convenient and comfortable accommodation for tutorial attendees. As part of this collaboration, participants can book their stay at a special discounted rate:
Single room: 113.75€ per night
Double room: 134.23€ per night
To take advantage of this offer, please use the reservation code BAT25 when booking your room.
Registration and Submissions
Deadline for registering to the event and submitting an extended abstract is Sunday, June 1st, 2025.
Registration will open May 1st, 2025. Registration link
Notification of acceptance will be sent Friday, June 20th, 2025.
The deadline for submitting the full paper is Friday, August 1st, 2025.