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We
would like to remind you that the 8th
World Congress of Accounting Historians is to be
held in Madrid, on 19th-21st July 2000.
The
Congress will be organized by Asociación
Española de Contabilidad y Administración de Empresas (AECA),
i.e. the
Spanish Association of Accounting and Business Administration,
through its Comisión de Historia
de la Contabilidad (Accounting History Commission),
sponsored by the Ilustre
Colegio Central de Titulados Mercantiles y Empresariales de
Madrid
(Official Institute
of Graduates in Commerce and Business Administration of Madrid.)
The
8th World
Congress of Accounting Historians
coincides with the end of the second millennium of
the Christian Era. This millennium has been precisely the
period in which the Western Civilization found its origin,
development and consolidation, building up on the foundations
of the Ancient Roman Culture. At the same time, it was also
the space in which accounting, an activity as old as Humanity,
found its modern form in the shape of double entry. In this
sense, the World Congress to be held the year 2000 constitutes
a real milestone in the chain of our Congresses and has to
take duly into account all these facts. Playing around this
Leitmotiv, its logotype shows the image of Father Luca Pacioli,
the man who divulged double entry, standing between a column
symbolizing the Classical Antiquity, which incorporates in
its shaft the ordinal number corresponding to the Congress,
and a pen, the instrument used in merchants' writings and
account books. Above Pacioli's head appear the seven stars
of the Community of Madrid and, at the foot of the logotype,
the acronym of the Congress made up of the capitals designed
by Pacioli himself. In acknowledgement of the role of Ancient
Rome in the construction of Europe and the Western Civilization,
the motto of the Congress is written in Latin. Combining and
playing with the ideas of Plato's Academy and Michel Foucault,
past and present, accounting is exhorted to know in depth
the paths followed, that is, its history, stating at the same
time that this is actually the task of the incoming millenium,
a task which is at every moment related to the present because,
strictly speaking, there is no history of the past, but history
of the present: the study of the paths followed to reach the
point where we are. In this way, the past becomes present.
The
8th World Congress of Accounting Historians
will be held in the premises of the Universidad Carlos
III de Madrid. This state-owned University was founded
in 1989 and is the youngest one in Madrid. Despite its youth,
the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid has built a solid
reputation as a center of research excellence as well as an
institution which provides a comprehensive education to its
students. The University has two campuses; one campus is specialized
in social sciences while the other is devoted to polytechnic
studies.
The
sesions will take place on the social science campus of Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid. In
addition to the regular services provided on a campus of this
type, the University residence hall will be available to Congress
participants. The
social science campus is located in Getafe, a satellite town
11 kms (7 miles) from downtown Madrid. The town has good connections
with Madrid by train and bus.
A
special shuttle bus service will be arranged for Congress
attendees who prefer accommodation in downtown hotels.
An
academic event in combination with a plenary session of the
Congress will be held at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares,
which is the oldest University in the Community of Madrid
and one of the oldest in Spain.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Asturias has accepted
the role of Honorary President of the Congress.
AECA
was established in 1979 with the purpose of
promoting professional activities and studies in the framework
of accounting and business administration. In seventeen years
it has gained general recognition and respect within the Spanish
society and is the institution which issues the generally
accepted accounting principles in Spain. The Ilustres Colegios
Centrales de Titulados Mercantiles y Empresariales are the
official associations to which all graduates in commerce and
business administration who wish to exercise their activity
as free professionals must belong. All these Colegios--about
40 all over Spain--are federated into a Consejo Superior de
Colegios Oficiales de Titulados Mercantiles y Empresariales
de España (High Council of Spanish Official Institutes of
Graduates in Commerce and Business Administration) which gathers
more than 20,000 free professionals from the whole country.
Both the Consejo Superior and the Colegio of Madrid, which
is the oldest of these bodies and was created in 1881, will
act as co-organizers of the Congress.
Besides
the Consejo Superior and the Colegio of Madrid, AECA will
count on the cooperation of the five State Universities located
in the Community of Madrid for the organization of the Congress:
the already mentioned Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and
Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, as well as the Universidad
Autónoma de Madrid, the Universidad Complutense, the Universidad
Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) and the recntly created
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid.
Esteban
Hernández-Esteve
Convenor
8th
World Congress of Accounting Historians
Asociación Española
de Contabilidad
y Administración de Empresas (AECA)
e-mail:
info@aeca.es
Web:
www.aeca.es
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