Theme 1: Sustainable Development

• Income distribution
• Poverty reduction
• Development policy analysis
• Agriculture and rural development
• Urban and industrial development
• Micro and small-scale enterprises development
• Water and sanitation development
• Human development (education and health)
• Infrastructure development
• Private sector development and its role in economic development
• Food security and livelihood
• Rural and Urban development
• Gender and development
• Population dynamics
• Demand for and supply of agricultural inputs and their effectiveness
• Diversification and Development of Tourist sites
• Planning, project and program
• Impact evaluation

Theme 2: Macroeconomic issue and policy

• Employment and Unemployment:
• Inflation:
• The Trade Cycle:
• Stagflation:
• Economic Growth
• Macroeconomic policy
• Taxes, government spending and borrowing, exchange rate determinants, and monetary and credit rules.
• Macroeconomic dynamics and stability
• Sectorial and Spatial Linkage
• Regional Income Accounting
• Revenue and Expenditure
• Inflation
• Unemployment
• Saving and Investment
• Aid effectiveness
• Environmental quality, energy consumption and economic growth
• Illegal trade

Theme 3: Socio-economics of People

• Household survey
• Occupation
• Income generation activities
• Human capital
• Living status of women headed household
• Socio-economic data
• Indigenous knowledge
• Sustainable cultural heritage tourism management
• Economically empowering women
• Job opportunity creation
• Resettlement, migration and decentralization
• Infrastructure development and tourism management
• Community-based disaster and risk management
• Market linkage and related activities for small and micro-enterprises

Theme 4: Natural Resource and Environmental issue

• Climate change, and resilience strategies
• Public health issues
• Urban sprawl
• Water pollution
• pollution
• Acid rain
• Deforestation
• Loss of biodiversity
• Natural resource depletion
• Overpopulation
• Global warming
• Ozone layer depletion
• Ocean acidification
• Environmental degradation; Environmental sustainability
• Environmental impact assessment
• Waste management
• Optimal utilization of resource
• Efficient allocation of pollution
• Resource utilization
• Economic values of park natural resources
• Agents and Victims of Environmental degradation

Theme 5: Accounting and Finance

• Finance and development
• Financial Institution
• Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance
• The challenge for Ethiopia to develop an accounting standard setting body or adopt IFRS.
• The use of accounting information for decision making
• The status of record keeping in Ethiopia and the challenges ahead
• Capital budgeting practices in Ethiopia
• Cooperatives: challenges and opportunities
• Performance audit,
• Accounting and audit systems, standards, challenges and automation
• Tax regulations and tax collection problems including illicit trade and human trafficking

1. Financial Institutions

• The roles of financial institutions
• Development of Financial Institution
• Empowerments of the women on micro finance
• Out awareness of the society
• Loan repayment aspects
• Opportunities
• Banking and Insurance services; regulations, performance, problems and development needs
• Public finance, micro-financial/credit, cooperatives, unions or other institutions that support the production and marketing system (establishment, effectiveness, usefulness)
• The need and importance of regulated financial markets
• Limitations of banking, saving and insurance services
• Determinants of loan repayment of small and microenterprises

1. Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance

• Tax regulations and tax collection problems including illicit trade and human trafficking
• Tax regulation and taxation
• Existing Tax system, Cause and consequence of tax evasion and avoidance
• Determinants of tax avoidance
• Prospects and challenges

1. Performance audit,

• Status of Record Keeping and the Challenges
• Accounting and audit systems, standards, challenges and automation
• The role of accounting in the performance and development of business
• The professional status of internal auditing in Ethiopia
• Assessment of the professional ethics of auditors/ accountants

1. Capital budgeting practices in Ethiopia

• Analysis of capital budgeting
• Deposit mobilization
• The need and importance of regulated budgeting system

1. Cost Accounting and Practices

• Establishing stock market in Ethiopia
• Cost Accounting practice in manufacturing enterprises
• Effectiveness and efficiency of internal control in public enterprise
• Analysis of Financial performance of companies

Theme 6: Management

• Leadership
• Market, value chain management, and enterprise development
• The challenges of managing organizations
• BPR, BSC
• Entrepreneurship: Micro and Small Business
• Business Ethics and Corporate Governance
• Employee satisfaction in the job environment
• Service quality management and customer satisfaction
• Value addition and supply chain
• Effectiveness of Micro and small Enterprises
• Effectiveness of plans and program
• Effectiveness of cooperatives
• Business ethics in micro, small, medium and large business establishments
• Problems and challenges of service quality delivery.

Theme 7: Marketing Management

• Livestock and livestock products marketing.
• Pricing decision by the business community
• Tourism Marketing
• Advertising practices
• Knowledge on marketing information systems
• Agricultural products and Market access
• Market Information Asymmetry.