Call for Papers - ISAR 2012 18th Annual International Symposium on Audit Research Tokyo, Japan 16 and 17 June, 2012 About the Symposium The 18th annual International Symposium on Audit Research (ISAR) will be held on June 16 and 17, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan. ISAR 2012 is being hosted by Waseda University (the Waseda University Global Center of Excellence) and sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. ISAR 2012 will be held at the RIHGA Royal Hotel which is located on the Waseda campus with the plenary session held at the Ibuka International Conference Hall. The International Symposium on Audit Research is jointly organized by the University of Southern California, (USA), Maastricht University (Netherlands), the University of New South Wales (Australia), and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). Scope of Topics The scope of ISAR is intended to be broad and includes research papers and panels that deal with economic and behavioral aspects of auditing and assurance. Papers that utilize any of a broad range of research methodologies will be considered. General topics of interest include research relevant to practice issues such as providing assurance services, litigation, regulation and international matters. Judgment and decision making topics can include any aspect relating to auditor behavior, such as professional scepticism, judgment frameworks, incentives, cross-national differences in audit judgments, risk-based audit planning, decision aids, alternative models of evidential reasoning and expertise. Economic-based topics can include national and international issues relating to regulation of audit and assurance services markets, audit quality, auditor choice, and auditor service production. Submission of Papers To be eligible for presentation, manuscripts must follow the style guidelines of a major audit research journal such as Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory. Please pay particular attention to the length requirements – most journals restrict the body of the manuscripts to 20-25 double-spaced pages. Please submit a single document which includes a title page listing author(s) affiliation(s) and the contact author's email address. Accepted papers will not be published in formal proceedings and thus may be submitted to any appropriate journal for publication. Papers that have been accepted for publication should not be submitted. Paper Submission Deadline and Requirements Papers should be submitted electronically in Adobe Acrobat or Word formats. Papers and, where appropriate, related research instruments must be received no later than 31 January 2012, and should be sent to: papers@isarhq.org. Further Information If you have questions about paper submission please email to papers@isarhq.org. For questions about the symposium please contact Ted Mock at tmock@ucr.edu. Further information is also posted at the ISAR website at www.isarhq.org where you can also register for email updates.