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China Accounting and Finance Review

All subject areas of accounting and finance research related to China, and all research methodologies, be they analytical, behavioural, conceptual, empirical, or experimental, are within the ambit of the journal. The overriding concern is the rigorous study of important issues in accounting and finance. Besides what might be termed traditional research, CAFR also welcomes papers that deal with accounting and finance education and original case studies that address and illustrate significant topics in accounting and finance.

Notes to Contributors

The editors welcome submissions in English or Chinese that fall within the editorial policy of the journal. Submissions are accepted on the understanding that they have not been published previously and that they are not under consideration by any other journal. Authors are required to explicitly state that these conditions have been met in a covering letter to the editors.
Please send three copies of the paper by post to:

The Editors
CAFR Office, School of Accounting and Finance
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Kowloon
Hong Kong

Alternatively, authors may send their manuscripts via email in Word or PDF format.

A submission fee of US$50 is required outside mainland China. Bank drafts should be made payable to 'The Hong Kong Polytechnic University'.

Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts

1	Manuscripts should be double spaced and printed on one side of the paper only. All pages should be numbered consecutively. Titles and subtitles should be short. References, footnotes, tables, legends for figures, and illustrations should appear after the main text in the above order and should begin on separate pages.

2	The first page of the manuscript should contain the title of the paper and the name(s), position(s), institutional affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s). It should also give the name, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address of the corresponding author.

3	An abstract of not more than 200 words should appear on a separate page after the title page. Up to six keywords should be provided.

4	Footnotes should be as few as possible and numbered consecutively with superscript Arabic numerals. They should not include displayed formulae or tables. Acknowledgements and information on grants received can be given in the first footnote.

5	Displayed formulae should be numbered consecutively in the text as (1), (2), etc. against the right-hand margin of the page.

6	Tables should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals.

7	References to publications should be as follows: 'Scott (1998) studied the problem of...' or 'This problem has been studied (e.g. Scott, 1998)'. There should be a strict one-to-one correspondence between names and years in the text and those on the list of references. The titles of journals should not be abbreviated in the list. References should appear as follows:

	Monographs Davis, A. R. and Deng, J. (1985), Auditing Methods, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Contribution to collective works Jiang, W. (1990), 'A Crossroads of the Accounting Profession in China', in Li, G. (ed.), The Accounting Profession in the 1990s, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 52-65. Journals White, L. S. and Wu, N. M. (1998), 'The Effect of Auditors' Incentives on their Judgments', Journal of Accounting 35(1): 151-159. The list of references should be in alphabetical order by the author's last name.