Happy New Year 2012

The Accounting Research Institute (ARI) wishes a Happy New Year to all researchers, asssociate members and our stakeholders. The year 2011 has been a great year for ARI. Its first year activities as a Higher Institutions' Centre of Excellence (HICoE) have seen major results in its niche research in the area Islamic Financial Criminology (IFC). The results include among others: sixty articles in indexed journals, thirty publications in indexed proceedings, forty seven national and international research collaboration, the organizing of two conferences in Islamic Financial Criminology, the signing of several MOUs and letters of intent, the enrolment of fifteen new post graduate students, international benchmarking visits to Taiwan, Singapore, United Kingdom and Australia and the publication of several special issue journal in IFC. 2011 ended on a good footing with the research proposal Retreat 2011 where six research cluster projects have been identified. May 2012 be another great year for all of us... Happy New Year to all.