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China Accounting and Finance Review (CAFR)

Established in 1999 by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in collaboration with Tsinghua University, China Accounting and Finance Review (CAFR) is the first refereed journal of accounting and finance published in the Greater China Region. For more than 20 years, CAFR has been publishing original articles that have implications for accounting and finance issues in China. 

 

CAFR has been rated "A" in the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List and indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Australian Research Council (ARC) and American Economic Association’s EconLit. CAFR is also a “Partners in Publishing Journal” featured in the Accounting Research Network on SSRN. 

 

CAFR is published in March, May, July, September, and December each year, and welcomes submissions that abide by the editorial policy. Submitted articles must be written in English. 

 

For our list of issues, please refer to the link below:

https://www.polyu.edu.hk/af/research/our-journals/china-accounting-and-finance-review/list-of-issues/

 

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p-ISSN: 1029-807X
e-ISSN: 2307-3055
Issues per year: 4

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Qiang Wu
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 

qiang.wu@polyu.edu.hk

 

Consulting Editors

Prof. C. S. Agnes Cheng
University of Oklahoma 

Prof. Iftekhar Hasan
Fordham University

Prof. Xuan Tian
Tsinghua University 

Prof. Laurence Van Lent
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

 

Editors

Prof. Mark Anderson
University of Calgary

Prof. Kee-Hong Bae
York University 

Prof. Jie (Jay) Cao
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 

Prof. Xiaofang Chen
Wuhan University of Techology 

Prof. Junxiong Fang
Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics 

Prof. Bill Francis
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 

Prof. Guojin Gong
University of Connecticut 

Prof. Thomas Hansen
Virginia Commonwealth University 

Prof. Shawn Huang
Arizona State University

Prof. Sterling Huang
Singapore Management University 

Prof. Bin Ke
National University of Singapore 

Prof. Yongtae Kim
Santa Clara University 

Prof. Wenjing Li
Jinan University 

Prof. Yupeng Lin
National University of Singapore 

Prof. Connie X. Mao
Temple University 

Prof. Mujtaba Mian
Zayed University 

Prof. Linda Myers
The University of Tennessee 

Prof. Rachna Prakash
University of Mississippi 

Prof. Meijun Qian
Australian National University 

Prof. Walid Saffar
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 

Prof. Katherine Schipper
Duke University 

Prof. Wei-Ling Song
Louisiana State University 

Prof. Nancy Su
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 

Prof. Avanidhar (Subra) Subrahmanyam
The University of California, Los Angeles 

Prof. Kun Wang
Tsinghua University 

Prof. M.H. Franco Wong
University of Toronto 

Prof. Chaopeng Wu
Xiamen University 

Prof. Eliza Wu
University of Sydney 

Prof. Xing Xiao
Tsinghua University 

Prof. Xinpeng Xu
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 

Prof. Nianhang Xu
Renmin University of China 

Prof. George Yang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Prof. Tong Yao
University of Iowa

Prof. Kangtao Ye
Renmin University of China 

Prof. Aaron Yoon
Northwestern University 

Prof. Xintong Zhan
Fudan University 

Prof. Tianyu Zhang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 

Prof. Hao Zhang
Rochester Institute of Technology 

Prof. Yijiang Zhao
American University 

Prof. Nan Zhou
University of Cincinnati 

Prof. Luo Zuo
National University of Singapore 

 

Editorial Office

Editorial Office
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 

af.cafr@polyu.edu.hk

 

 

 

CAFR welcomes submissions that fall within the editorial policy of the journal. Submitted articles must be written in English, and be readable, well-organised and in good writing style. Submissions are accepted on the understanding that they have not been published previously and that they are not under consideration by any other journal. The journal is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December of each year.

 

Submission of Manuscripts

Please refer to the author guidelines on https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/cafr#jlp_author_guidelines

Please direct all enquiries to CAFR Editorial Office. Email: af.cafr@polyu.edu.hk




December 2, 2023
CAFR Special Issue Conference 2023
Jinan University, Guangzhou, China


September, 2021

CAFR 2021 Virtual Annual Conference (Theme: ESG)
Online

17 – 18 September 2021 (Friday and Saturday, Hong Kong Time)
16 – 17 September 2021 (Thursday and Friday, US Time)


November 28 and December 1, 2020
CAFR Fundamental Analysis Symposium
Online


September 26-27, 2020
CAFR 2020 Virtual Annual Conference (Theme: Taxation)
Online


January 2, 2020
CAFR Research Workshop (Theme: Global Development in Fintech and Its Implications to Accounting, Finance, and Law Research) (Preliminary Program)
San Diego, U.S.A.


September 20-21, 2019

CAFR Knowledge Transfer Forum
Dongguan & Hong Kong, China


July 3-5, 2019
2019 Summer Research Boot Camp on Financial Intermediation and Markets
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China


November 30, 2016
China Accounting and Finance Review (CAFR) 2016 Conference


May 15, 2015
The Joint China Accounting and Finance Review (CAFR) and Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance (JAAF) Conference

 

 

 

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