Special Issue of Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting

The Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting (JETA) is the academic journal of the Strategic and Emerging Technologies Section of the American Accounting Association. In response to the challenges presented by today’s new technology development and innovations, the JETA editorial team is excited to provide an opportunity for accounting and information systems academics to publish their work on the combination of textual analysis and accounting.

Numerous accounting information exists in text format, such as MD&A, sustainability reports, auditing/accounting standards, and tax regulations. How to efficiently use these textual information has attracted much concern from both practice and academia. The goal of this special issue is to present the state-of-the-art textual analysis research in accounting.

JETA invites researchers to submit scientific research papers to be published in a Special Issue on textual analysis in accounting. The Special Issue will also consider work from professionals. Topics include but are not limited to the following topics:

• Textual analysis of accounting disclosures
• Textual analysis in auditing
• Textual analysis in taxation
• Textual analysis of auditing/accounting standards and regulations
• Textual analysis of accounting literature
• Use of textual documents to create accounting ontology
• Other applications of textual analysis in auditing/accounting context

All research methods are welcome, including review, analytical, archival, design science, behavioral, qualitative, field and case study.

The submission deadline will be February 29, 2016. Please e-mail a submission to JETA editor Miklos Vasarhelyi at miklosv@andromeda.rutgers.edu and to the editor of the Special Issue Qi Liu at qliu@siena.edu before February 29, 2016.