Abstracts for the CIGAR conference in Coimbra, Portugal are due January
15, 2007. The conference is June 14-15 with a PhD Conference on June
12-13. See website for details http://www4.fe.uc.pt/cigar2007/


CIGAR stands for Comparative International Governmental Accounting Research.

It is a network of scholars interested in cross-national aspects of public
sector budgeting, accounting, financial reporting and auditing.

The network was established in the late 1980’s to promote cooperation
between scholars of different countries working in the same field. Since
governmental accounting in many countries is not mainstream accounting,
international exchange of ideas and discussion of research methods and
results is even more important for any researcher as well as for the
discipline at large.

Means for promoting cooperation are conferences, workshops and joint
research projects. The conferences, open to both scholars and
professionals, provide information on the latest research in governmental
accounting as well as on practices and reform projects in different
countries. They are being held biennially. In the years in between,
invited scholars meet at workshops aimed at intensively discussing
research issues.


For more about CIGAR see http://www.cigar-network.net