It was Monday, 27th of April 2015. In early morning I checked my email and I got this message:

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Ref: ACCINF_2015_7

Title: IT INVESTMENT GOVERNANCE: WHAT IS IT AND DOES IT MATTER?

International Journal of Accounting Information Systems

Dear Dr. Ali,

I am pleased to inform you that your paper IT INVESTMENT GOVERNANCE: WHAT IS IT AND DOES IT MATTER? meets the standards of International Journal of Accounting Information Systems and has been accepted for publication.

Given that this paper is a revised version of 11-52R2 that was given a conditional accept by the previous editor, we decided that we (the current two joint editors) would consider this revised version and your response to the minor changes required by the previous editor before deciding whether or not to send it out again to reviewers. We have read the paper and the responses to the reviewers and we both agree that the paper should be accepted for publication in IJAIS without further review. Congratulations.”

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I was very excited with the news! After all the hard works and time spent with the other coauthors from QUTBS (Peter Green) and UQBS (Alastair Robb), we finally managed to publish the article. Now it’s in the final editing process before IJAIS publish the online version on their website. IJAIS is a top-tier journal for accounting information systems discipline (along with Journal of Information Systems [JIS] published by American Accounting Association). According to ABDC journal quality list, IJAIS is an ‘A’ journal.

To a great extent, this result was a fruit of my two weeks visit at the School of Accountancy QUTBS. As I mentioned in the previous posting, during the two weeks visit I had enough time to re-revise the paper and discuss it with the other colleagues.

I hope I will get more time to prepare another papers for future publications!