About The Conference
The International Conference on Business and Finance is an annual flagship conference of the Finance and Accounting Department of IBS, Hyderabad. ICBF-2026 is the 18th edition of it. ICBF, since its inception, has consistently attracted the best researchers from all over the country and the Asia Pacific Region. The conference has been graced by Industry Luminaries, Policymakers, and Impactful Academics as keynote speakers since its inception. It is one of the few popular conferences for disseminating research in Business and Finance. Participants in past conferences have carried considerable feedback to refine their work for impactful publications. The International Conference on Business and Finance 2026 (ICBF–2026), the flagship annual event of the Department of Finance and Accounting at ICFAI Business School, invites papers for its 18th edition, to be held at IBS-Hyderabad on April 10th–11th, 2026. Academicians, researchers, doctoral students, and practitioners are invited and encouraged to submit research papers in all areas of finance accounting.
The papers for this conference can fall under the following broad categories:
- Conceptual Papers/ Empirical Papers/ Theoretical Papers
- Case Studies/White Papers/Practice Papers
