The Doctoral Program in Economics (PDIE), Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS), hosted an online workshop entitled The Latest Accounting Research, Tuesday, October 17, 2023.

The activity, which was attended by PDIE students and FEB UNS Lecturers, presented Fitra Roman Cahaya, B.Com., Ph.D., CSRS, CSRA., from the Department of Accounting at Essex Business School, University of Essex, England. Fitra is an expert in the field of publications both nationally and internationally as well as various experiences of publication and preparation of scientific papers.

Prof. Dr. Rahmawati, M.Si., Ak., Head of the PDIE Study Program in her speech states that this activity was carried out with the aim of increasing the quantity and quality of scientific papers in accordance with the latest developments, which could further encourage the publication of PDIE FEB UNS scientific papers.

Good and interesting writing will improve the research publication quality and quantity, both in reputable national and international journals. Thus, it will further encourage the achievement of academic quality in PDIE FEB UNS as the targets set in the Strategic Plan and the vision and mission of PDIE FEB UNS and maintain the institution’s excellent ‘A-rating’ accreditation.

Meanwhile, Fitra Roman in his presentation emphasized the importance of contemporary topics in research. “The fundamental question is why students need contemporary topics in conducting research. Some of the current and upcoming contemporary research topics include the use of accounting in technology, the use of accounting in health, and the use of accounting in the circular economy. Some of these topics can be explored into a novel research topic that needs to get a quick response from students,” he said.

Furthermore, he explains that the theoretical foundation becomes very important for the development of this research topic. Fitra also provides several examples of contemporary accounting topics including Issues in accounting education (e.g. impacts of AI and online platforms), Narrative disclosure – e.g. readability and decoupling, Issues in corporate governance (e.g. political background of directors/commissioners), and Management accounting in family businesses.

In this forum, the speakers provided many opportunities for the workshop participants to discuss, hopefully, participants understood the topics of scientific works included in the latest accounting research and could implement them.