Following previous successes, the 2025 UM Accounting and Business Analytics Conference will be held on the beautiful campus of University of Macau, Macau SAR, China, on November 19, 2025.

TOPICS

We are inviting submissions in the broad areas of accounting and data analytics, including but not limited to the following topics:

  • Financial accounting
  • Managerial accounting
  • Auditing
  • Taxation
  • Artificial intelligence in accounting research
  • Data analytics
  • Machine Learning in FinTech
  • Financial Econometrics
  • High-dimensional Data Analytics related to Accounting and Finance
  • E-commerce
  • Digital Economy

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (IN ALPHABETIC ORDER)

  • Prof. Wai-Fong Chua (University of Sydney)
  • Prof. (TBC)

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Please submit your paper in PDF format via email to

Katherine Chan (email: katherinechan@um.edu.mo) (all papers)

The first page of the submitted PDF file should include author details (i.e., name, institution, and email address). For the subject of your email, please use “UM Accounting and Business Analytics Conference”. The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2025 (Friday), midnight Beijing Time. No submission fee will be charged.

In consideration of the international nature of the conference, the working language of the conference is English. Only papers written in English will be considered. Authors will be notified of the acceptance decision by 7 November, 2025 (Friday).

PARTICIPANTS

You are also welcome to attend the conference as a non-presenting participant. Invitations will be sent to participants separately. We have only limited slots for participants without paper acceptance. We will invite participants on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.

The conference schedule allows plenty of room for in-depth interactions in a niche, small group setting. Presenters and participants are expected to stay for the whole conference to benefit from it.

There will be no registration fees for the conference. Refreshments, lunchboxes, and the conference dinner will be provided to all participants of the conference. We are unable to reimburse travel or other expenses for presenting authors or participants.

We look forward to seeing you in University of Macau in November!

REGISTRATION: The conference registration details will be posted on the UM website: (https://fba.um.edu.mo/aim/department-events/) by 12 Nov, 2025 (Wednesday).

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE (IN ALPHABETIC ORDER)

  • Rubin HAO
  • Yifan Jiao
  • Zhaotong Lian
  • Yan Lin (Co-Chair)
  • Morris LIU (Co-Chair)
  • Nanqin LIU
  • Charlie SOHN
  • Jason XIAO (Co-Chair)
  • Wenyang Zhang
  • Secretary: Katherine CHAN

Further information

Please contact Katherine Chan (email: katherinechan@um.edu.mo),  Jason Xiao (email: jasonxiao@um.edu.mo and Yan Lin (email: yanlin@um.edu.mo).