On October 23, the first Big Data Accounting Forum was successfully held in Chengdu, Sichuan. This forum was co-sponsored and jointly hosted by the School of Accounting of SWUFE and the Chinese Enterprise Globalization Research Center of the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University.
Professor Tang Xuesong, Associate Dean of the School of Accounting of SWUFE, and Professor Jia Ning, Director of the Chinese Enterprise Globalization Research Center of the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University, delivered speeches at the opening ceremony. They expressed their warm welcome to the experts for their support and participation in this forum. They hope that through the wisdom and joint efforts of Chinese accountants, they will produce international-level digital economy theoretical research achievements and contribute to the vigorous development of the future economy. They also hope that everyone will continue to promote big data accounting-related work in the future and lead the accounting wave in the new era.
Miklos A. Vasarhelyi, Distinguished Professor from Business School of Rutgers University and Director of Rutgers Accounting Research Center and Continuous Audit Research Laboratory, and Professor Xu Xin, Associate Dean of School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Director of Artificial Intelligence and Management (AIM) Research Center, School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University, Yangtze River Scholar, gave wonderful keynote speech on the new application of accounting under the background of big data, the potential and development prospects of the interdisciplinary research of information systems and accounting disciplines.
In the parallel forums, representatives of the authors of the 12 articles selected for the conference focused on the reform and application of the accounting and financial fields under the big data environment, and discussed topics like data and corporate value investment, big data and management accounting, big data and intangible asset valuation, credibility of big data and investment information, big data and stock price synchronization, big data and strategic management and innovation, big data and social governance, etc. The experts then had a rich and in-depth academic exchange.
More than 300 experts and scholars from more than 40 Colleges and Universities at home and abroad, including Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Sichuan University, Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), University of Macau, University of Texas at Austin, University of Liverpool, etc. participated in the forum through a combination of online and offline options.
In recent years, the momentum of China's digital economy has been extremely strong, and the breadth and depth of integration with various economic and social fields has continued to expand. Digital technologies such as the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain have profoundly changed the allocation and efficiency of information, logistics, and resources. Accounting, as a general business language for resource allocation, its boundaries, functions and values are also profoundly affected by the changes in digital technology. The first big data accounting forum provides a communication platform for better understanding and adapting to the challenges and opportunities brought by digital technology, as well as exchanges on the all-round impact of digital technology changes on accounting and related professional fields, and contribute wisdom and strength to jointly promote the development of big data accounting discipline.
