Professor Christine Cooper was a keynote speaker at the Critical Studies in Accounting and Finance Conference in Abu Dhabi which ran from December 15 -17.
The conference aims to provide a platform for academics and professionals from different countries, disciplines and research networks to present cutting edge research and to exchange insightful perspectives and analyses. Scholars may raise (enduring) concerns about finance, accounting, economy and society, and may thus contribute to new understandings of current issues and encourage new agendas.
This second international conference attempts to contribute to the ongoing debate on the financial crisis and potential policy-based remedies, by shifting towards a greater recognition of the fundamental implications of the current impasse for financial institutions organizations and technologies (including accounting and control) confronted with the urgent need for financial resources to deliver socio-economic development. This does not concern only private firms and households, but also local and central governments all round the world, in various monetary areas and contexts.