Plenary Sessions, Luncheons,
Receptions, and Awards

Plenary sessions of the American Accounting Association’s Annual Meeting will be held from 8:30 am to 9:45 am on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, August 15–17, 2002. On Thursday the plenary will feature the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award, and Saturday’s plenary will feature the Wildman Medal Award. The Competitive Manuscript Award and Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award will be presented at Friday’s luncheon and the Innovation in Accounting Education Award will be presented at the Saturday luncheon. In addition to these award presentations, the plenary sessions and luncheons feature keynote speakers or presenters who have closely observed and powerfully influenced major accounting or education developments in recent years.

With a reception every night, there is ample time for relaxing, socializing, and renewing acquaintances. On Wednesday night, August 14, the informal Early Bird Reception takes place in the Exhibit Hall—your first chance to see what’s new with this year’s exhibitors. The Association’s Welcome Reception is Thursday night and beverage, food, and entertainment are provided. Friday night will feature a theme reception and offers food and entertainment—sure to surprise and please. And finally wind down and say good-byes for another year at the Farewell Reception on Saturday night, August 17.

Thursday, August 15
Thursday’s plenary speaker is Gerald (Jerry) A. Feltham, the Arthur Andersen Professor of Accounting and former Chairman of the Accounting Division in the Faculty of Commerce at the University of British Columbia. Mr. Feltham will speak on “Understanding the Value of Accounting.” He has held faculty positions at the University of Alberta (1961–1963) and Stanford University (1967–1971). Mr. Feltham has published three books and numerous articles in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Review of Accounting Studies, and Management Science. Mr. Feltham has received numerous awards including the American Accounting Association’s 1997 Outstanding Accounting Educator Award, the 1997 Distinguished International Visiting Lecturer in Accounting, and the 1998 Wildman Medal. He is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Journal of Management Accounting Research and has served on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, and Management Science.

Friday, August 16
Jack E. Triplett, who will deliver the keynote address for the Friday plenary, is a visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. His current research concerns productivity in services industries with a focus on developing improved measures of output for these notably difficult-to-measure sectors of the economy, and analysis of the “new economy,” particularly the contributions of high technology to economic growth and productivity. He is also engaged in an international project to produce comparable high-tech deflators and measurements in national accounts in OECD countries, in order to carry out international comparisons of productivity, economic growth, and living standards. He serves as a consultant on productivity analysis and on issues of economic measurement and economic statistics to research institutions, companies, and international organizations, and to the statistical agencies of a number of countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Eurostat (the statistical office of the European Community). Mr. Triplett has written extensively on problems of economic measurement, including price indexes, national accounts, capital stock and labor input, and productivity and technical change. He holds A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.

Katherine Schipper will speak at the Friday luncheon on “An academic research perspective on accounting standard setting.” Ms. Schipper was appointed to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) effective September 2001. Prior to joining the FASB she was the L. Palmer Fox Professor of Business Administration at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Ms. Schipper has published research papers on a range of accounting and corporate finance issues and has been the recipient of several grants and awards, including the American Accounting Association’s Outstanding Accounting Educator Award. She has served the American Accounting Association as President and as Director of Research, and as President of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section. She was a member of the FASB’s Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC) from 1996 to 1999. Ms. Schipper holds a B.A. degree from the University of Dayton, and M.B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago.

Saturday, August 17
Saturday’s plenary session will feature Curriculum Challenge Contest winners:

• Anil Arya, John Fellingham, and Douglas A. Schroeder, all of The Ohio State University
• Gary Entwistle, University of Saskatchewan
• William R. Kinney, University of Texas at Austin

Come and learn about your colleagues’ visions for the future of Accounting Education.

Saturday’s luncheon will feature incoming AAA President G. Peter Wilson. Mr. Wilson is the Joseph L. Sweeney Chair of Accounting at Boston College and has served on faculties at Lake-Sumter Community College, Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received the AAA’s Competitive Manuscript Award in 1986, is a past Academic Vice President of the Association, and has served on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review, and Issues in Accounting Education.

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