Swiss Winter Accounting Conference 2026

Date and Location

The Swiss Winter Accounting Conference (SWAC) 2026 will take place at HUUS Gstaad in Saanen-Gstaad (Switzerland) from January 20 to 23, 2026.

Overview

Join us for our accounting conference in the prestigious winter sports resorts of Saanen-Gstaad, renowned for its alpine charm, beautiful slopes and unspoiled mountain landscapes in the heart of the Bernese Oberland.

The Swiss Winter Accounting Conference aims at bringing together European researchers from all accounting disciplines to give them the opportunity to discuss their research, to initiate new research ideas and to provide them with an excellent network opportunity in an inspiring atmosphere to develop our European accounting research community.

The scientific program will consist of plenary presentations and discussions of selected papers.

The Swiss Winter Accounting Conference is organized by the Managerial Accounting Section of the Institute for Accounting at the University of Bern and the Institute of Financial Analysis at the University of Neuchâtel.

Paper Submissions

We invite submissions of papers analyzing issues from all accounting disciplines, including managerial accounting, financial accounting, and auditing. Papers should use a quantitative empirical method (archival, experimental or survey).

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• The role of accounting information in agents' economic decisions
• The effect of accounting standards on managers' decisions
• Organizational design and management control systems
• Internal control systems and performance management
• Executive compensation
• Auditor choices and consideration of noncompliance with laws and regulations
• Governance and control of interfirm relationships
• Economic consequences of financial and non-financial disclosures

Submission deadline is September 1, 2025.
Please submit papers to swac.iuc@unibe.ch. Acceptance of papers will be announced one month later.

Registration deadline for the conference is November 15, 2025.

Please note: attendance at the conference is by invitation only.

Program