The Accounting Research Institute (ARI) thanks members of EKONIS from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia for visiting ARI today. EKONIS is Research Center for Islamic Economics and Finance, which is based at the Faculty of Economics and Management, UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA (UKM). In 2010, EKONIS was granted by the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia as a center of excellence. The mission of the center is to foster the development of Islamic economics and finance fields by delivering the best research and providing the resources for scholars to develop themselves by the way of the Qur’an and Sunnah. During the meeting today, researchers from both entities discussed about possible collaboration, especially research in the area of Islamic Finance and Islamic Accounting. Currently, few members from EKONIS are also part of the research team from Universiti Teknologi MARA that submitted afor the Long Term Research Grant Scheme (LRGS) for the topic on Islamic Philanthropy. Joint conference and joint publication are also other possible collaboration.