8th Alternative Accounts Europe (AAE) Conference 2026
This prestigious event brings together scholars from a range of disciplines, backgrounds and academic and professional careers, with an interest in studying accounting as a social and institutional practice.
- Event Time
- 8 Jan 09:30 - 8 Jan 18:00
- Event Type
- Original Thinking Applied
We’re proud to be hosting the 8th Annual Alternative Accounts Europe (AAE) Conference at AMBS with our co-hosts BAFA IPSIG.
This prestigious event brings together scholars from a range of disciplines, backgrounds and academic and professional careers, with an interest in studying accounting as a social and institutional practice.
We encourage contributions that focus on critical and interdisciplinary approaches to accounting. This forum seeks to challenge conventional assumptions, interrogate power structures, and examine the role of accounting in shaping social, environmental, and institutional realities, and to explore its future potential and what it could become.
We are delighted to welcome two distinguished scholars whose work exemplifies the critical and interdisciplinary ethos of this conference.
Professor Christine Cooper
Christine Cooper is a Professor of Accounting at Edinburgh University. She is an Associate Editor of Critical Perspectives on Accounting and serves on several other Editorial Boards.
At the moment she is setting up a new Diamond journal – the Interdisciplinary Accounting Review. Her research is concerned with the economic, political and social impact of accounting on our everyday lives.
This has produced publications in diverse social arenas including social and environmental accounting, gender, privatization, deskilling of accountants and bookkeepers, insolvency, taxation, accountability and accounting in the South African apartheid era.
Professor Paolo Quattrone
Paolo Quattrone is a Professor of Accounting, Governance and Society at the Alliance Manchester Business School.
He is also an Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, MISUM Visiting Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and Otto Møsted Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School.
He is interested in how the visible and the invisible, absences, no-things, ambiguity, mystery and the unknowable affect decision making, organizing, data visualizations, governance and the persistence of institutions.
He is the 5th recipient of the EIASM Interdisciplinary Leader Award and has been co-Editor-in-Chief of Organization Studies.
Call for papers
We invite original research that engages with a range of themes.
Deadline to submit your abstracts: 24 October 2025
Submission details: Please submit your abstract of 500-1,000 words by end of 24 October 2025 by emailing: AAE2026@manchester.ac.uk
Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 7 November 2025.
Participants will have the opportunity to share additional materials (digital hand-outs, slides, their finalised abstracts) prior to the event.
Conference programme and how to get to the venue
A copy of the conference programme will be available nearer the time.
Lunch and refreshments will be included in the conference fee. Delegates can inform the organisers of allergies in the conference registration form. Attendance at an informal conference dinner is optional and further details will be provided nearer the time.
Find out more about how to get to Alliance Manchester Business School. The Hyatt Regency and Hyatt House hotel are located opposite the conference venue, and delegates can take advantage of a discounted room rate (details about the discounted room rate are provided in the weblink to the hotel).
Important: Photography and videography will be taking place during this event. By registering for and attending the event, you grant Alliance Manchester Business School permission to capture and use photos and videos of your likeness for promotional purposes. If you prefer not to have your image used in any promotional materials, please inform a member of staff upon your arrival.