For the Week of August 22, 2010...

2010 Annual Meeting
SEARCHABLE SESSION LISTINGS
The AAA 2010 Annual Meeting was recently held in San Francisco, California. The online program features links to detailed listings of all the concurrent sessions, each of the Research Interaction Sessions, the New Scholar Session, Emerging and Innovative Research Projects, and Effective Learning Strategies. Abstracts are available for all paper presentations, with links to full-text versions provided where authors have granted permission. Full-text versions will only be available through September 2, 2010.

FARS Section Midyear Meeting
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Papers are invited for the 2011 Midyear Meeting of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS), which will be held in Tampa Bay, FL, on January 27-29, 2011. The FARS meeting will consist of a doctoral consortium, a recruiting reception, some plenary sessions, and research paper sessions. The submissions deadline is September 1, 2010.

50th Anniversary ~ Midwest Region
OAK BROOK, ILLINOIS
The 2010 Midwest Region Annual Meeting and 50th Anniversary Celebration will be held October 21-23 at the Doubletree Hotel Chicago - Oak Brook, in Oak Brook, Illinois. The theme for the 50th anniversary celebration is "Understanding Our Past, Creating Our Future." The hotel reservations deadline (and early pre-registration for the meeting) is September 20, 2010.

COSO News Release
FINANCIAL FRAUD REPORT
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. – According to a new study by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), fraudulent financial reporting by U.S. public companies has significant negative consequences for investors and executives.
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Accounting in Community Colleges: Who Teaches, Who Studies?
A number of articles and papers discuss tenure-track and nontenure track accounting faculty and accounting doctoral students, but limited information is available on the role of community college faculty in the United States. This analysis looks at status and trends for community college faculty in accounting, and like its companion reports on tenure-track and non-tenure eligible faculty, does so within the context of the larger higher education environment in the U.S. today.

Accounting Faculty in U.S. Colleges and Universities: Status and Trends, 1993-2004
A Report of the American Accounting Association, February 19, 2008
The result of a joint project between the American Accounting Association (AAA) and Accounting Program Leaders Groups (APLG), the report entitled Supply and Demand for Accounting Ph.D.s (December, 2005) galvanized the accounting community’s desire for more information about the state of our accounting environment. With no central warehouse for information

Trends in Non-Tenure-Eligible
Accounting Faculty, 1993–2004
Following up our report on status and trends for tenure-track faculty, this new report explores similar characteristics for important members of accounting faculties. This report describes the trends in characteristics and employment of non-tenure-eligible accounting faculty based on the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty administered in 1993-2004.

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!
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 Years1916–1966, by Stephen A. Zeff (reprinted in 1991), and The Third-Quarter Century of the American Accounting Association1966–1991, 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.