International Journal of Accounting, Business and Finance

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 knowledge of accounting and related subjects in India and abroad. Before 2024, the IJABF was 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 (Starting from Volume 6 (2027), the journal aligns its volume lifecycle with the calendar year. Issues are published twice a year, in January and July.)

e-ISSN: 2583-2123

Starting Year: 2021 (First Issue published in December 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. The journal provides immediate free access to all content under the BOAI definition, allowing users to read, download, copy, distribute, and link to full texts without barriers. Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) with no Article Processing Charges (APCs) and no submission fees.

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 their 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.

Use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in writing and peer-review

IJABF requires authors to disclose the use of Generative AI Tools for manuscript preparation in a separate AI declaration statement upon submission. The statement should be placed either at the end of the manuscript or in the cover letter to the Editor. In their declaration, they should disclose the use of AI, including the name of the Generative AI Tool used, the purpose of the use, and the extent of their oversight. If they use Generative AI in their research work, it should also be disclosed in the methods section. Any AI tool cannot be added as an author to the manuscript.

IJABF does not allow the use of Generative AI tools in the peer-review process.

Chief Editor:  Dr. Dharen Kumar Pandey, Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur, India.