XXVI Grudis Conference and Doctoral Colloquium
Overview
Grudis is a global network spanning multiple continents, focused on advancing Accounting research, open to all career stages and research traditions, with a collegial and supportive community. Central to Grudis Network is the Grudis Conference and Doctoral Colloquium, which over the years has become a cornerstone to the advancement of accounting scholarship. The XXVI Grudis Conference and Doctoral Colloquium embraces this legacy wholeheartedly and endeavours to continue on the path of excellence.
ISCAP – Porto Accounting and Business School proudly hosts the 2027 Grudis Conference and Doctoral Colloquium and welcomes all to Porto, with its UNESCO World Heritage designation, which recognises the city's outstanding urban landscape, which features 2,000 years of history, Roman, Gothic, and Baroque architecture, and stunning terraced views of the Douro River. With this charming and cultural richness as backdrop, Porto promises to provide an inspiring setting for discussion, debate and networking.
The event will feature a plenary address by a distinguished scholar which, together with the presentation of research papers and PhD projects, provides a setting for intellectually stimulating debate, free flow of ideas, and the invaluable feedback and insights from discussants and peers. The warmth and collegiality of Grudis Conferences creates the perfect setting for engaging conversations, developing professional networks, and exploring potential research collaborations.
We are warmly inviting accounting scholars, researchers, graduate students, and practitioners to join us in Porto for the XXVI Grudis Conference and Doctoral Colloquium. We welcome submissions and participation from all researchers and interested parties.
We look forward to welcoming you to Porto in January 2027.
Venue
The XXVI Grudis Conference and Doctoral Colloquium will be held from 28 to 30 January 2027 at ISCAP – Porto Accounting and Business School, Universidade Técnica do Porto (P.PORTO).
ISCAP – Porto Accounting and Business School
Address:
ISCAP, Rua Jaime Lopes Amorim s/n, 4465-004 S. Mamede de Infesta, Portugal
Coordinates: GPS: 41.189824, -8.598139
Welcome to XXVI Grudis Conference and Doctoral Colloquium
On behalf of the Conference Committee, I am delighted to warmly welcome you to the XXVI Grudis Conference and Doctoral Colloquium, hosted by ISCAP – Porto Accounting and Business School, one of the eight schools of Universidade Técnica do Porto (P.PORTO), Portugal.
Founded in 1886, ISCAP - Porto Accounting and Business School serves nearly 5,000 students, providing innovative programmes within a range of undergraduate, graduate, and master’s degrees, including specialised fields such as Accounting, Management, Finance, Auditing, Digital Marketing, Logistics, Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, and Intercultural Business Studies, as well as several double-degrees with international partners.
ISCAP - Porto Accounting and Business School enjoys state-of-the-art laboratories for Multimedia, Business Simulation, Education, and Communication and Marketing, reflecting its commitment to cutting-edge technological resources. Its Faculty blends academic excellence, grounded in impactful research activities and academic networking events, along with strong business industry ties, ensuring students gain practical, real-world insights. Internationalisation is a key focus for the school, supported by extensive partnerships across Europe, Brazil, USA and Southeast Asia, and active participation in Erasmus and other international projects. The growing mobility of students and staff strengthens ISCAP’s global engagement and intercultural exchange. The school houses research centers specializing in Intercultural Studies (CEI) and Organisational and Social Studies (CEOS.PP), promoting interdisciplinary research, academic networking, advanced consultancy and innovation in Management, Law, Communication, and Information Technologies.
The annual Grudis Conference and Doctoral Colloquium has become a pillar of academic excellence, fostering intellectual exchange, collaboration, and professional development. However, attending the XXVI Grudis Conference and Doctoral Colloquium in Porto offers far more than an enriching scientific and learning experience. As a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Porto will charm you with its unique architecture, gastronomy, and hospitality of its people. The Douro River, the city’s multicultural character, and convenience of its modern public transportation network, will enable you to fully enjoy this vibrant setting.
Drawing upon ISCAP – Porto Accounting and Business School’s strong track record of hosting prestigious international scientific meetings, we are committed to ensuring that this edition of Grudis Conference and Doctoral Colloquium builds on this legacy. Thus, you can expect a stimulating platform for high-quality academic discussions, as well as ample opportunities for networking and social engagement.
We are proud to have the continued support of the European Accounting Association (EAA) and the Order of Certified Accountants (OCC). Most importantly, we count on you – accounting scholars, researchers, graduate students, and all those with a passion for accounting research – to help make the XXVI Grudis Conference and Doctoral Colloquium a truly memorable and impactful event.
We warmly invite you to join us in Porto and we look forward to welcoming you on 28–30 January 2027!
On behalf of the Organising Committee,
Helena Costa Oliveira
Conference Chair
Keynote Speaker
Details to come
Committees
Scientific Committee
Standing Scientific Committee Members
▪ Chair: Sofia Lourenço [ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa]
▪ Paulo Alves [Católica Porto Business School]
▪ Ana Isabel Lopes [ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa]
Scientific Committee Members
▪ Helena Costa Oliveira [ISCAP, Universidade Técnica do Porto]
▪ Reviewers invited by the Standing Scientific Committee
Program
The Grudis Conference and Doctoral Colloquium is held over three days.
Day 1 (Thu 28 Jan, late afternoon): Early Bird Reception
This networking event is included as part of the Full-package conference registration.
Day 2: Doctoral Colloquium & Conference
Morning: Doctoral Colloquium
The Doctoral Colloquium features the welcome address & information session and presentations of doctoral students’ research projects. This space provides doctoral students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research projects, as well as the preliminary results of their research. All research projects benefit from the in-depth comments of a discussant.
Attendance of the Doctoral Colloquium is open to all registered conference participants.
Afternoon: Conference opening & parallel sessions
The Conference features the opening session and parallel sessions with paper presentations and a discussant.
Evening: Grudis social dinner
Ample networking opportunities during the day and evening.
Day 3: Conference
Morning: The Conference features the plenary address and parallel sessions with paper presentations and a discussant.
Afternoon: The Conference features a roundtable and parallel sessions with paper presentations and a discussant.
Ample networking opportunities during the day.
Conference Awards
The XXVI Grudis Conference and Doctoral Colloquium offers participants access to the Outstanding Reviewer Award – Professor Ana Maria Rodrigues, the Outstanding Paper Award – Professor Lúcia Lima Rodrigues, and the Accounting and Management Review Award. Eligible PhD students have access to the Doctoral Colloquium Award.
Outstanding Reviewer Award – Professor Ana Maria Rodrigues
The Outstanding Reviewer Award recognises service excellence among peers. This award bears the name of Professor Ana Maria Rodrigues, the late Grudis member who distinguished herself for her selfless sense of service to the Grudis and wider accounting community. Winners receive a certificate in acknowledgement of their exceptional service to the review process.
The award is decided by the Standing Scientific Committee.
Outstanding Paper Award – Professor Lúcia Lima Rodrigues
The Outstanding Paper Award recognises conference papers that stand out for their excellence among peers. This award bears the name of Professor Lúcia Lima Rodrigues, the late Grudis member who distinguished herself for the outstanding contribution to accounting research through numerous and well-cited publications in leading journals. Winners receive a certificate in acknowledgement of the quality of their research.
The award is decided in a two-stage process that entails reviewers’ recommendations and a nomination by an independent panel. All conference papers are eligible.
Accounting and Management Review (AMR) Best Paper Award
The AMR Best paper Award recognises research papers presented during the Grudis Annual Conference whose authors explicitly indicate willingness to publish the work in the Accounting and Management Review. Winners of the AMR Award will receive a certificate and a €500 prize in recognition of the quality of their research.
This award is exclusively available to papers whose authors explicitly self-nominated for consideration. During the submission process (via EasyChair), authors will be prompted to indicate if they wish to be considered for the AMR Best Paper Award, confirming their willingness to publish their work in the Accounting and Management Review. The Award is informed by reviewers’ recommendations and requires submission of the paper for publication in the Accounting and Management Review.
Please refer to the Regulation AMR Best Papers Award for further details on the AMR Award.
Doctoral Colloquium Award
Research projects submitted to the Grudis Doctoral Colloquium may participate, upon indication of authors and eligibility, in a selection process under the Grudis-EAA partnership agreement, which offers the following exclusive benefits for selected doctoral students:
- Participation in the EAA PhD Forum (on the first morning of the EAA Congress) of the respective year in which they are nominated (upon registration at the EAA Congress);
- Reduction of the EAA Congress registration fee by 250€ (not cumulative with the discount given to PhD students when they register for the first time);
- Participation in the Peer Mentoring Initiative (PMI) of the EAA's Accounting Research Center (ARC).
PMI aims to provide doctoral students with feedback from European experts in the various areas of accounting. It works like a peer review system for a scientific journal, with the inherent confidentiality of projects. More information at https://arc.eaa-online.org/peer-mentoring-initiative; - Two years of free membership of the EAA, consequently granting access to the European Accounting Review and Accounting in Europe, as well as full access to the ARC website.
The Scientific Committee selects (up to) three awardees for the Doctoral Colloquium Award.
Submission
Manuscripts can be submitted in English or Portuguese, with presentations and discussions being conducted in the language the paper is written.
The submission of the manuscripts is via EasyChair. This will require the submitting author to register on the EasyChair platform, to name the co-authors, and to submit a PDF file. This file needs to meet the following criteria:
- Be a complete version of the manuscript – i.e. only full papers may be submitted.
- Be de-identified – author(s) identification needs to be removed to ensure the anonymity of the review process; author information is entered directly on the EasyChairsubmission page.
- Not exceed 15,000 words.
Following the EasyChair submission, a copy of the full paper, including identification of the authors and their affiliation, should be sent to the conference email conference@grudis.pt. This step serves two purposes: (i) it allows the Organising Committee to make a copy of the paper available to registered participants ahead of the conference, and (ii) it provides the information required for inclusion in the Conference Booklet (see example from the XXV edition here, page 42).
All submissions – conference papers and PhD projects – will undergo a double-blind review process conducted by the Scientific Committee.
The submission deadline is 1 October 2026.
Submitting authors will be notified of the outcome of their submission by the end of October 2026.
Papers from all areas of accounting and drawing on all research methods are welcomed. In particular, we welcome papers focusing on issues in Auditing, Accounting Education, Financial Analysis, Financial Reporting, Accounting and Governance, History, Interdisciplinary/Critical, Accounting and Information Systems, Management Accounting, Public Sector Accounting & Not-For-Profit Accounting, Social and Environmental Accounting & Ethical Issues in Accounting, and Taxation. We also welcome all research method approaches, including Analytical/Modelling, Conceptual Development/Interpretative/Historical, Case/Field Study, Empirical Archival, Experimental, and Survey.
Authors should not submit papers presented at a previous Grudis Conference. Only in exceptional circumstances will a second presentation be permitted, and subject to fundamental changes having been made to the paper.
Authors are required to indicate through EasyChair if they wish to be considered for the AMR Award, which results from partnership between Grudis and the Order of Certified Accountants (OCC). For more details, see conference awards under the Program above.
As noted above, the abstracts of all accepted papers, together with authors’ names and affiliations, will feature in the Conference Booklet.
Accepted papers will have a discussant. In reciprocating the benefit of receiving a discussion of their paper, by registering for the conference participants agree to serve as a discussant for one paper within their area of interest (if requested by the Organizing Committee).
The acceptance of papers becomes final only after completing the registration of the presenting author, up to two weeks after notification of acceptance (see also Key Dates, under Registration). Each author may present only one paper. Co-authorship of additional accepted papers is permitted without restriction, provided each accepted paper is presented and registered for by at least one co-author.
Key Dates
The dates for submission, acceptance and registration deadlines for the Conference and Doctoral Colloquium are the following:
- 1 October 2026
Paper submission deadline
- 27 October 2026
Communication of acceptance of papers
- 27 October 2026
Registrations open (Early bird fee)
- 15 November 2026
Deadline for registration of presenting authors
- 14 December 2026
Early-bird registration ends
- 15 December 2026
General registration starts
- 15 January 2027
General registration closes
- 28-30 January 2027
XXVI Grudis Conference and Doctoral Colloquium
Registration
Key dates
Registrations will open on 27 October 2026 in accordance with the following schedule:
- 27 October 2026
Early bird registrations open
- 15 November 2026
Registration deadline for presenting authors
- 14 December 2026
Early bird registration ends
- 15 December 2026
General registration starts
- 15 January 2027
General registration closes
Two registration options are available. The Full-package option covers the full three-day programme — the Early Bird Reception on Thursday evening, all scientific sessions across Friday and Saturday, lunches and coffee breaks on both days, and the Grudis social dinner on Friday. The Select-extras option covers the scientific sessions and meals on Friday and Saturday only; the Grudis social dinner is available as a paid add-on, and the Early Bird Reception is not included.
Comparison table
What's included | Full-package | Select-extras |
Day 1 — Thursday 28 January |
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Early Bird Reception (evening) | ✓ | not available |
Day 2 — Friday 29 January |
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Doctoral Colloquium (morning) | ✓ | ✓ |
Conference opening and parallel sessions (afternoon) | ✓ | ✓ |
Lunch and coffee breaks | ✓ | ✓ |
Grudis social dinner (evening) | ✓ | optional add-on (+€35) |
Day 3 — Saturday 30 January |
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Plenary address and parallel sessions (morning) | ✓ | ✓ |
Roundtable and parallel sessions (afternoon) | ✓ | ✓ |
Lunch and coffee breaks | ✓ | ✓ |
The following registration fees apply:
Full-package option
| Early-bird fee (1) | Regular fee |
Grudis Network members | € 175 | € 225 |
| € 230 | € 270 |
| € 118 | € 168 |
(1) Early-bird registration fees are subject to payment being cleared by the deadline of 14 December 2026.
(2) Members of the EAA, ASEPUC, AICOGéstion, and InSPiR2eS Network benefit from the same registration fee as Grudis Network members.
Note: the Grudis social dinner is open to accompanying persons of conference participants at a cost of €35. Please contact finance@grudis.pt to make arrangements as soon as possible (no later than three weeks prior to the event).
Select-extras option
| Early-bird fee(1) | Regular fee |
Grudis Network members | € 120 | € 170 |
| € 160 | € 210 |
| € 80 | € 130 |
| € 35 | € 35 |
(1) Members of the EAA, ASEPUC, AICOGéstion, and InSPiR2eS Network benefit from the same registration fee as Grudis Network members.
(2) Early-bird registration fees are subject to payment being cleared by the deadline of 14 December 2026.
(3) The Grudis social dinner is available as an optional add-on at €35 and can be selected at the time of registration; early booking is advised. The Early Bird Reception (Day 1) is not available to Select-extras registrants and cannot be added on.
Certificates will be issued to registered participants, presenters, discussants, and session chairs.
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Useful information
Arriving by Air
There are numerous airlines and flights from different cities across the globe to Porto Airport (OPO). From the airport, metro, bus, and Taxi/TVDE (e.g. Uber, Bolt) services are available – details below.
By Metro
Take the purple Line E at the “Aeroporto” metro station. Change lines at “Trindade” metro station, taking the yellow line D to "Hospital São João".
From "Hospital São João", you can walk to ISCAP or take a bus. Lines you can take from the Metro Station at Hospital São João:
506 (Matosinhos (Mercado))
603 (Maia)
705 (Continente)
For further information about metro tickets and prices, please visit:
http://en.metrodoporto.pt/
By Bus
Directly from the airport: 604 (Hospital S. João – via Crestins). Hop on at the bus stop “Aeroporto” and hop off at “Cavadas” or “ISCAP”.
From the city centre (“Baixa”)
By Metro
Take the yellow Line D at the “Aliados” or "Trindade" metro station to "Hospital São João". From there you can walk to ISCAP or take the bus. For further information about metro tickets and prices, please visit http://en.metrodoporto.pt/
By Bus
Lines you can take from the city centre:
506 (Matosinhos (Praia))
600 (Maia)
By Train
Choose the “Porto São Bento” station to “Leça do Balio” line. Get off at the Hospital de São João station.
TAXI or TVDE (e.g. Uber)
Taxi stands are within the airport's perimeter (arrivals or departures) and within the train stations’ perimeter.
For more information, see: https://www.iscap.pt/international/index.php/iscap/how-to-get-to-iscap
Details to come soon.
Porto is a city rich in history and architectural beauty, offering visitors a remarkable collection of monuments that reflect its cultural heritage. Among the most iconic landmarks is the Clérigos Tower, an 18th-century Baroque masterpiece that offers breathtaking panoramic views over the city. Livraria Lello is a historic (1906) library, beautifully designed, and known as one of the most impressive bookstores in the world.
Nearby, the Porto Cathedral (Sé do Porto) stands as one of the city’s oldest monuments, combining Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque elements and overlooking the historic centre. The São Bento Railway Station is another must-see site, famous for its impressive panels of traditional Portuguese azulejo tiles depicting scenes from the country’s history.
Crossing the Douro River, the majestic Dom Luís I Bridge connects Porto to Vila Nova de Gaia and provides one of the most striking views of the riverside landscape. Visitors should also explore the Church of São Francisco, renowned for its richly gilded Baroque interior, and the Palácio da Bolsa, a 19th-century neoclassical building celebrated for its magnificent Arab Room.
Together with the charming Ribeira district, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, these monuments offer an unforgettable glimpse into the historical and cultural identity of Porto.
Discover what to see and do in Porto in VISIT PORTO
Partners
The Grudis Conference and Doctoral Colloquium is supported by the European Accounting Association (EAA) and by the Order of Certified Accountants (OCC).
Contacts
The Organizing Committee and the Scientific Committee can be contacted at: conference@grudis.pt.
For all inquiries relating to financial matters (e.g. invoices, cancellations) please contact finance@grudis.pt.
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