CDAF Events

Each year CDAF organises an Annual Conference (May) and Research Methods Workshop (April). Other special one-off events are also held.

Annual Conference

CHA holds an annual conference each May for members representing departments of Accounting and Finance. It focuses upon issues of curriculum, quality assurance, academic management, professional body links and staff development. It provides a forum for debating these issues, for sharing examples of good practice, for networking with colleagues who have similar management responsibilities, and benchmarking academic performance indicators in the subject.

Research Methods Workshop

The workshop aims to provide an overview of research for people entering into research for the first time, but is also intended to be of interest to researchers with some experience who would like to reinforce their understanding of alternative methodologies.

The workshop will also provide an overview of undertaking PhD research and supervision together with guidance on journals and how to get published. There will be lecture-style sessions, question and answer sessions and, most importantly, opportunities for break-out groups to discuss, articulate and start to develop their own particular research focus.

Management Development Programme

A development programme - consisting of four workshops - for staff with or aspiring to take management roles in Accounting & Finance introduces participants to some of the generic challenges of managing a department or subject group, within the context of Accounting, a subject broadly defined to include Finance, linked to professional bodies.