Aims and Scope

Finance, Accounting and Business Analysis (FABA) is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, open access electronic journal established in 2019. The journal provides an open platform for academic debate and exchange of ideas among researchers, practitioners, and policy makers on contemporary issues in finance, accounting, business analysis, and related areas, with a particular emphasis on internationally relevant research connecting European, Asian, and African perspectives.
 
Aims
 
Finance, Accounting and Business Analysis (FABA) aims to publish high-quality, original and unpublished scholarly research in finance, accounting, business analysis, and closely related fields, with a distinctive international orientation and particular attention to studies that connect European, Asian, and African academic and professional perspectives.
 
The journal seeks to provide a platform for theoretically grounded, empirically robust, and practically relevant research that addresses financial, accounting, business, and economic issues across different institutional, regulatory, and market contexts. FABA especially welcomes contributions that offer comparative, cross-country, regional, or internationally relevant insights, including studies focused on emerging markets, transition economies, developing economies, and economies undergoing financial, accounting, regulatory, or institutional transformation.
 
Through this international and applied focus, the journal aims to support evidence-based decision-making, encourage scholarly exchange among researchers and practitioners from different regions, and contribute to the development of knowledge in finance, accounting, business analysis, and related economic fields.
 
Building on the international academic networks and partnerships of the University of National and World Economy, including long-standing cooperation with institutions and scholars from Europe, Asia, and Africa, FABA encourages scholarly contributions that foster cross-regional academic dialogue.

Scope and topics

FABA welcomes both theoretical and applied studies, including (but not limited to) the following areas:

- Financial markets and financial integration

- Financial sustainability

- Monetary and fiscal policy

- Banking and financial intermediation

- Corporate finance and financial management

- Financial crises, regulation, and supervision

- International finance and public finance

- Behavioral aspects of finance

- Interdisciplinary financial studies

- Accounting analysis, financial accounting, and management accounting

- Auditing

- Business analysis

- Economics (where clearly connected to the journal’s aims)

 

Target readership

The journal addresses researchers, academics, professionals, and policy makers working in finance, accounting, business analysis, and related domains.

Manuscript types

The journal considers research papers, review papers, theoretical papers, and case studies. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere.

Language

Articles are published in English only.

Peer review and editorial screening

All submissions are subject to initial editorial screening and double-blind peer review.

Publishing schedule

The journal publishes two issues per year (June and December), with two issues forming one volume per year.

Open access, licensing, and fees

FABA provides immediate open access to published content under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. The journal does not charge fees for article approval or publishing.

DOIs

All articles are assigned Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) registered via Crossref under the prefix 10.37075.

Publisher and management

Since June 2024, the journal has been owned and published by the University of National and World Economy (Sofia, Bulgaria).

The journal is jointly managed by the Institute for Economics and Politics and the Department of Finance at the University of National and World Economy, in cooperation with the Monetary Research Center at the University of National and World Economy.

The journal is published by Academic Publishing UNWE.