About Indian Accounting Review

Indian Accounting Review (IAR) is an international, peer-reviewed and bi-annual journal, published in June and December respectively in each year since 1997, by the Indian Accounting Association Research Foundation (also known as IAA Research Foundation). IAR was enlisted by UGC (Journal No. 46893) in all the three categories viz. Accounting, Finance and Business & Management up to June 13, 2019 (before publication of UGC-CARE list). Now, IAR is under review for UGC-CARE list. The Impact Factor of IAR is given below.

(GIF: 2019): 2.8229
(GIF: 2017): 2.7342

Ownership and Management

The Indian Accounting Association (IAA) Research Foundation, a forum of accounting educators, professional accountants and others, was founded during 1989-90 under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961 (Regn. No. S/63876), the principal objective being promotion of accounting, education and research in India and abroad. As a Secretary of the IAA Research Foundation, Dr. Bhabatosh Banerjee, based on the need for publication of a high quality refereed research journal in Accounting in India, submitted a proposal for publication of Indian Accounting Review (IAR), a bi-annual, research journal, in June and December each year. It was approved by the Executive Committee of the Research Foundation and Dr B. Banerjee was appointed as the Editor of IAR. The first issue of IAR was published in January, 1997 (ISSN 0972-1754), funded by the Research Foundation. The ownership was vested on the Research Foundation and the entire cost of publication and distribution was borne by the Research Foundation. Dr. Banerjee started publication of IAR from the Department of Commerce, University of Calcutta (as its Working Office) and also editing manuscripts and supervising the publication work from his residence at 164/78 Lake Gardens, Kolkata-700 045. He was given complete freedom for the purpose, of course, within the overall Policy of the Foundation. The journal is distributed free to the life members of the Foundation. There are also a large number of annual and permanent institutional subscribers. The Editorial Board comprises a large number of erudite scholars across the globe having suitable experience in the matter. Dr. Banerjee is now the Consulting Editor and Prof. Dhrubaranjan Dandapat of the University of Calcutta has been working as Editor since 2017.
Publishing, circulating, distributing and effectively running a good quality blind peer reviewed methodical journal is not an easy task. Long-run sustainability of a journal will rely on high-quality manuscripts, energetic editorial board members, high-quality reviewers, effective business model to ensure monetary support, better visibility that ensure enhanced submissions, indexation in different significant databases and accessible website. The difficulties associated with running a flourishing journal are also associated with the ownership of the publication. The Indian Accounting Association Research Foundation has created an Endowment Fund for publication and distribution of the Journal. Nevertheless, while assuring monetary support, Indian Accounting Association Research Foundation ensures that the Editor has sufficient autonomy to get usual decisions associated with the journal that are very significant. There have been wonderful expansions in ICT during the last 20 years which on one hand has made the editors’ job simple but simultaneously it has put the Board under a lot of pressure. It is not easy for the Editors to satisfy the expectations of the authors and others who are mostly intolerant and desire to get their manuscripts in print at the earliest. However, Indian Accounting Association Research Foundation has never compromised with the quality of its Journal, Indian Accounting Review, and the authors are always insisted on revising the manuscripts complying with the reviewers’ comments to the satisfaction of the Editors for its publication
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Aim and scope

The journal seeks to publish high-quality research-oriented and original articles on both fundamental and empirical research papers in the field of accounting and finance. In addition, it invites papers regarding application of theory to real life situations, where the findings would be of interest of researchers, academics and professionals. IAR publishes manuscripts from areas, such as, accounting, accounting education, accounting standard, financial reporting, corporate finance, behavioural finance, international accounting and finance, financial markets, financial management, risk management, human resource management and related areas.

Policy

IAR is a refereed international journal. It follows “Blind Peer Review Process”. The main principle for publication in Indian Accounting Review is the importance of the contribution a paper creates to the literature. Contemporary areas of interest to the journal in the field of accounting and finance are very much welcome. The journal is furthermore open to all exact research methods. The effectiveness and usefulness of the editorial review procedure is crucially reliant upon the acts of both the authors submitting papers and the reviewers. The review process is not to be used as a means of getting advice at premature stages of developing the research. Both reviewers and editors are accountable for giving useful and timely evaluations of submitted articles on the basis of the implication of their contribution along with the rigour of analysis and presentation.

Acceptance rate: less than 50%