The Accounting Research Institute (ARI) will be co-organising several international conferences between May and November 2013. The 5th International Conference on Financial Criminology (ICFC 2013) will be held in Holiday Inn Hotel, Glenmarie, Shah Alam on 28-29 May, 2013. Themed "Global Trends of Financial Crimes in the New Economies", the conference which is co-organized with ACFE and ACAMS will showcase renowned global researchers and practitioners as speakers. A total of fifty research papers will also be presented during the conference. Just like in previous years, the conference expects to attract about 300 participants. On 24-25 June 2013, ARI will jointly co-organize the International Seminar on Government and Financial Criminology (ISGFC 2013)which will be hosted by the Faculty of Accountancy, University of Chullalongkorn, Thailand. ARI will send twenty paper presenters to Bangkok for the event. Following ARI's visit to the Philippines in March 2013, the International Conference on Islamic Finance, Muamalat and Financial Criminology (IFMFC 2013) will be co-organized with the Philippines Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PIPA Cagayan de Oro-Misamis Oriental Chapter), National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) and Mindanao State University. IFMFC 2013 will be held on 23-24 October 2013 in Cagayan. Prior to the conference, a roundtable discussion will be held to discuss the viability of initiating Islamic Microfinance project with the Islamic community in the state. ARI will send 20-30 paper presenters to the conference. Two of ARI's research centres: Corporate Governance Research Centre and the Public Sector Accounting Research Centre will co-organize the International Conference on Corporate Governance (ICGC) 2013 with two international research centres - Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE) India and the Institute of Business Research (IBR), University of Waikato, New Zealand. ICGC 2013 will be held in Kuala Lumpur in October 2013. The annual Asia Pacific Management Accounting Association (APMAA) International Conference 2013 will he hosted by the University of Nagoya Japan on 1-4 November 2013. As steering committee members of APMAA, several ARI researchers will attend the management meeting as well as present papers at the conference.
