US$5,000 Annual Manuscript Award

The Accounting Foundation of The University of Sydney funds a US$5,000 Annual Best Paper Award for the best paper(s) published in each calendar year. The award reinforces the journal's continuing decision-useful focus explicit in its objectives, which have stemmed from the vision of the founder of Abacus, Ray Chambers.

The winning article (or joint-winning articles) for each year are freely available to read at the links below.

2017 Winners

Shan Zhou, Roger Simnett and Wendy Green for their article Does Integrated Reporting Matter to the Capital Market?

2016 Winners

Stephen Penman for his article Valuation: Accounting for Risk and the Expected Return;

James Ohlson and Erik Johannesson for their article Equity Value as a Function of (eps1, eps2, dps1, bvps, beta): Concepts and Realities

2015 Winners

Jennifer Gippel, Tom Smith and Yushu Zhu for their article Endogeneity in Accounting and Finance Research: Natural Experiments as a State-of-the-Art Solution

2013 Winners

Geoff Meeks and Amir Amel-Zadeh for their article Bank Failure, Mark-to-market and the Financial Crisis

Michael Dempsey for his article The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM): The History of a Failed Revolutionary Idea in Finance?

Alex Dontoh, Joshua Ronen and Bharat Sarath for their article Financial Statements Insurance.

2012 Winners

Helen M. Roybark, Edward N. Coffman and Gary J. Previts for their article The First Quarter Century of the GASB (1984–2009): A Perspective on Standard Setting (Part Two)

Ian Davidson, Qian Guo, Xiaojing Song and Mark Tippett for their article Constructing Asset Pricing Models With Specific Factor Loadings.

2011 Winners

Chris Nobes for his article IFRS Practices and the Persistence of Accounting System Classification

Audrey Wen-Hsin Hsu, John O'Hanlon and Ken Peasnell for their article Financial Distress and the Earnings-Sensitivity-Difference Measure of Conservatism

Irene Karamanou for her article On the Determinants of Optimism in Financial Analyst Earnings Forecasts: The Effect of the Market's Ability to Adjust for the Bias.

2010 Winners

Stephen H. Penman for his article Financial Forecasting, Risk and Valuation: Accounting for the Future

Stina Skogsvik and Kenth Skogsvik for their article Accounting-Based Probabilistic Prediction of ROE, the Residual Income Valuation Model and the Assessment of Mispricing in the Swedish Stock Market

Geoffrey Whittington for his article Measurement in Financial Reporting.

2009 Winners

Philip Brown, Andrew Ferguson and Andrew B. Jackson for their article Pierpont and the Capital Market

G. Meeks and J. G. Meeks for their article Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Failure: The Endogenous Balance Sheets of Distressed Companies.

2008 Winner

Joshua Ronen for his article To Fair Value or Not to Fair Value: A Broader Perspective.