If you are up to the age if 35 years and you have an unpublished paper on cooperative banking, send it to this award. The selected paper will receive recognition via publication on the EACB website, and the author(s) will get the opportunity to present their paper to the EACB Academic Advisory Group or in a public EACB event. Excellent initiative of the EACB!
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The 33rd CIRIEC International Congress will take place in Valencia (Spain) next 13-15 June 2020 with the lemma “New global dynamics in the post-Covid era: challenges for the public, social and cooperative economy”.
More info soon at https://www.ciriec.uliege.be/en/event-ciriec/33rd-ciriec-international-congress-valencia-spain-13-15-june-2022/
The World Cooperative Congress 2021 is approaching!
Under the lemma “Deeping our cooperative identity” the Congress will take place in Seoul 1-3 with two side events: the ICA Cooperative Research Conference and the 3rd International Forum on Cooperative Law.
See more information at https://icaworldcoopcongress.coop/programme/
Article of Fernando Polo-Garrido and Elena Meliá-Martà published in the Journal Economic Research which offers a critical review of the history of cooperatives in the accounting standards for business combinations and identifies and studies five problematic aspects of the application of the acquisition method. The article provides practical guidance to identify Business Combinations Under Common Control between cooperatives, identifies incompatibilities between the cooperative law and accounting standards, proposes a modified cost of business combination, points out inequalities between members arising in the application of the acquisition method and above all shows that the IASB’s decision to allow only one method has proven ineffective in avoiding accounting arbitrage and the lack of fitness of the accounting standards to cooperatives.
See the full article at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1331677X.2020.1833744
In 2020, the AECA Commission for Cooperatives and other Social Economy Enterprises has undertaken a process of re-foundation in which its objectives, scope, structure, composition and operation have been redefined. This process has been led by the new President of the Commission, Juan Francisco Juliá-Igual, Professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
The new structure of the AECA Commission consists of three working groups coordinated by three professors and experts in the field. These groups are:
– Management and Administration Group. Coordinator: RosalĂa Alfonso-Sánchez.
– Accounting, Non-Financial Information and Finance Group. Coordinator: Fernando Polo-Garrido
– Digital Transition Group. Coordinator: Ricardo Palomo-Zurdo
The multidisciplinary nature of the Commission, with members who are experts from different public and private entities, regions, and disciplines, seeks to give the projected pronouncements and activities the greatest representativeness and applicability. Among its thirty-eight experts there are academics from fifteen universities, many of them members of AECA and CIRIEC-Spain, as well as managers and practitioners linked to the main organisations representing this business sector.
In addition to the Documents and Opinions issued, the new Commission has set itself the objective of holding meetings and conferences in which to invite relevant spokespersons from the social economy sector to debate current issues of professional interest. Another of the new Commission’s strategic objectives is to promote collaboration agreements with other public and private entities and institutions that encourage the transfer of knowledge.
See: https://aeca.es/comisiones-de-estudio/contabilidad-de-cooperativas/
2020 UK Society for Co-operative Studies Conference, “The polictics, Policies and Practices of Co-operative movements”. On line, from 1st – 3rd October 2020.
The programme includes a panel on “Accounting for Co-operative purposes” and another panel on “Measuring and reporting co-operative performance”
Full programme of events are availiable at https://ukscs.coop/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020-Conf-Programme-Draft-Pre-Reg.pdf)
MatarĂł, Spain 17th and 18th September 2020.
More information at (Spanish):
The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) and the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (Euricse) has recently published the 2019 issue of the World Cooperative Monitor, the eighth annual one. The report explores the economic and social impact of the largest cooperatives and mutuals worldwide, providing a ranking of the Top 300, sector rankings, and an analysis of contributions to meeting the objectives of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
More information at: https://www.euricse.eu/world-cooperative-monitor-new-ranking-of-the-largest-cooperatives-is-now-available-focus-on-sdg-8/
The Special Issue is seeking papers on any aspect of management, measurement and reporting related to social, environmental and SDG performance of co-operatives.
More information at: https://www.smu.ca/academics/sobey/ijcam-call-for-papers.html
Euricse announces the organization of the 10th Euricse International Workshop on Cooperative and Responsible Finance for Development. The workshop, organized in collaboration with the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento and Federcasse (Italian Federation of Cooperative Credit Banks), with the support of EACB (the European Association of Co-operative Banks), will be held in Trento, Italy on June 20th and 21st, 2019.
