(Source: EFRAG – European Financial Reporting Advisory Group) Research activities will be increasingly important in the IASB and EFRAG work plans in the coming years. The academic community can provide valuable input on many aspects of these activities. EFRAG intends to strengthen its relationship with the academic community by setting up an Academic Panel on financial reporting and accounting and is therefore launching a call for nominations to the Panel. If you are interested, please write to us at nominations@efrag.org by 1 March 2017. EFRAG believes that accounting research activities will have an increasingly significant role in the coming years, reflecting a growing consensus that...