About the Journal

The International Journal of Accounting, Business and Finance (IJABF) (e-ISSN 2583-2123) is a bi-annual journal published by the Indian Accounting Association, Patna Branch which aims to promote and disseminate the knowledge of accounting and related subjects in India and abroad. Prior to 2024, the IJABF was being published by the Association for Academic Research and Innovation. The IJABF publishes high-quality research and review articles in accounting, business, and finance-related disciplines. The journal aims to stimulate the development of accounting, business, and finance-related disciplines theory worldwide by publishing interesting articles in a highly readable format.

IJABF is an open-access journal without any submission or publication charges.

The journal covers a wide variety of topics including (but not limited to):

  • Financial markets- national and international, financial econometrics, Corporate finance, Investments, Derivatives, Banking.
  • Marketing research, market segmentation, positioning, pricing, relationship marketing, business marketing, social marketing, internet marketing, advertising, branding, customer behavior analysis;
  • Future trends in HRM, Strategic HRM, International HRM, Organizational culture, Responsible and sustainable HRM, People analytics;
  • International and financial accounting, Management and cost accounting, Tax, Auditing, Accounting information systems, Environmental and social accounting, Corporate governance: accounting/finance, Ethical issues in accounting and financial reporting.
  • International business.

Please refer to the Call for Papers for more information.

Journal Details:

Frequency: Twice a year

e-ISSN: 2583-2123

Starting Year: 2021

Language: English

Publication format: Online

Publisher: Indian Accounting Association, Patna Branch, P.G. Department of Commerce, Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, Bihar - 824234

Funding: The IJABF collects no submission or publication fee from the authors. All activities of the IJABF are funded by the Indian Accounting Association, Patna Branch.

Open Access Policy

This is an open-access journal. Your article will be published open-access, but you will not have to pay an APC (article processing charge) - publication is free. Your article will be published with a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 user licence, which outlines how readers can reuse your work.

Plagiarism and Copyright Policy

Any manuscript you submit to this journal should be original. That means it should not have been published before in its current, or similar, form.  If any substantial element of your paper has been previously published, you need to declare this to the journal editor upon submission. Please note, the Chief Editor may use Plagiarism Check to check on the originality of submissions received. Your work should not have been submitted elsewhere and should not be under consideration by any other publication. If you have a conflict of interest, you must declare it upon submission; this allows the Chief Editor to decide how they would like to proceed. You can get more information on conflict of interest in our research and publishing ethics guidelines at https://publicationethics.org/. By submitting your work to the IJABF, you are guaranteeing that the work is not in infringement of any existing copyright.

Copyright of published articles

After publication, the authors retain the copyright. The published articles are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which outlines how readers can reuse your work.

Archiving and Preservation

The contents of the journal are digitally preserved using the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) which uses the LOCKSS archiving system.

Repository Policy

The authors can deposit all versions of thir published work to any repository of their own choice. However, the IJABF must be clearly attributed as the original place of publication with complete citation details.

Chief Editor: Dr. Dharen Kumar PandeyORCID iD iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0030-1781

Current Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2024): June 2024
					View Vol. 3 No. 2 (2024): June 2024
Published: 29-05-2025

Editorial

  • Bridging theory and practice: Contemporary perspectives in accounting and finance

    Dharen Kumar Pandey
    i-iii
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55429/ijabf.v3i2.202

Research Articles

  • Feedback from stakeholders on proposed audit quality standards

    Arianna S. Pinello, Adrian Valencia, Jules Patrick Abel Mama, Tyler Waller, Marcia Zubieta
    1-19
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55429/ijabf.v3i2.111
  • Modeling the efficiency of financial inclusion in Bihar: A data envelopment analysis

    Archila Kushwaha, Brajesh Kumar, Pooja Kumari
    20-35
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55429/ijabf.v3i2.147
  • Derivation of weight for measuring financial inclusion index using a non-parametric analysis approach: A study based on Bihar

    Prashant Ranjan, Akanksha Chaurasia
    36-48
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55429/ijabf.v3i2.167
  • A strategic approach towards sustainable development: Scaling climate finance mechanisms for climate change in India

    Shankar Sodha, Sanjay Bhayani
    49-60
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55429/ijabf.v3i2.148
  • The synergistic influence of board gender diversity and audit committee on the financial performance of Saudi Arabian banks

    Amal Yamani
    61-77
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55429/ijabf.v3i2.155
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