The American Accounting Association

For the Week of November 8, 2009...

2010 Annual Meeting
Call for Submissions EARLYBIRD DEADLINE: 12/01/2009
On July 31-August 4, 2010, the American Accounting Association (AAA) will hold its Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. The Program Advisory Committee for the 2010 Annual Meeting of the AAA invites academic and practitioner members from around the world to submit research papers, proposals for panels, Effective Learning Strategies sessions, CPE Sessions and the Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting (CTLA).

Although the final submission deadline for papers, panels, and CPE proposals is January 6, 2010, paper and proposal submissions received by midnight eastern time on December 1, 2009 are eligible to win one of three (3) Earlybird Cash Prizes. Volunteers are also needed to serve as reviewers, session moderators, and paper discussants. If you are submitting a paper or proposal for the 2010 Annual Meeting, please consider "giving back" to the community by also volunteering to serve in one or more of these roles.

2010–2011 Officer Nomination
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The 2009–2010 Committee on Nominations is seeking candidates for the following offices to serve during 2010–2011:

President-Elect
Vice President—Publications Elect
Vice President—Sections and Regions
Vice President—Research
Vice President—Education Elect
Council Member-At-Large (2)
International Council Member-At-Large

COSO News Release
THOUGHT PAPER
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. – The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) has released a new thought paper, Strengthening Enterprise Risk Management for Strategic Advantage, that highlights specific areas where senior management can work with its board of directors to enhance the board's risk oversight capabilities and the organization's strategic value.
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2010 AAA Competitive Manuscript Award
AWARDS UPDATE
The American Accounting Association Competitive Manuscript Award encourages research among members of the Association and associate members who have earned their Ph.D. within the past five years. The nominations deadline is January 31, 2010.

2010 AAA Innovation in Accounting Education Award
AWARDS UPDATE
The American Accounting Association requests nominations and submissions for the 2010 Innovation in Accounting Education Award. The award is intended to encourage innovation and improvement in accounting education. The nominations deadline is January 31, 2010.

AICPA Exposure Draft
AAA TASK FORCE RESPONSE
Recently the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Professional Ethics Executive Committee issued an Exposure Draft entitled Proposed Revision to Ethics Ruling No. 2 Regarding Distribution of Client Information. The American Accounting Association (AAA) convened a Task Force to respond to the proposed revisions. Please see the AAA Resource Page for documents prepared by the Task Force and other responses from various AAA members and groups.

FASB Accounting Standards Codification™
ACADEMIC ACCOUNTING ACCESS
On July 1, 2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) instituted a major change in the way accounting standards are organized. On that date, the FASB Accounting Standards Codification™ (FASB Codification) became the single official source of authoritative, nongovernmental U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (U.S. GAAP). After that date, only one level of authoritative U.S. GAAP will exist, other than guidance issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). All other literature will be non-authoritative.

As part of its educational mission, the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF), the oversight and administrative body of the FASB, in a joint initiative with the American Accounting Association (AAA), will provide faculty and students in accounting programs at post-secondary academic institutions with the Professional View of the online FASB Codification. Read more...

Visit the AAA Marketplace
SPECIAL OFFER!
AAA History For a limited time, the AAA is offering two landmark works, documenting the history of the American Accounting Association, at a very special price! The offering includes American Accounting Association, Its First 50 Years—1916–1966, by Stephen A. Zeff (reprinted in 1991), and The Third-Quarter Century of the American Accounting Association—1966–1991, by Dale L. Flesher (published 1991).

AAA Issues and Resources
Looking for information about AAA task force initiatives? Many items that previously appeared on the AAA home page have been collected in a special Issues/Resources compendium for easy access.

Front Page News Archive
Items on our front page that cannot be found elsewhere on our site may be kept in a news archive.