The Cardiff (ABFH/AHR) Conference and Accounting, Business & Financial History, 1989-2011 - some (personal) reflections

This study focuses on the origins and development of the Cardiff Conference and its relationship with the journal, Accounting, Business & Financial History (ABFH). It provides a mixture of description of the events leading up to the decision to initiate a conference and the founding of ABFH, as well as some analysis of conference attendance, and the significance of conference presentations to the flow of papers published in ABFH/Accounting History Review. It also contains some personal reflections.