Plenary
Session Text Online
To
support continuation of discussions sparked by outstanding
plenary sessions during this year's Annual Meeting,
text versions of addresses by Arthur R. Wyatt and
Joel S. Demski are made available here.
A project is under way to make video of those sessions
available on the AAA website, as well as presentations
by Mr. Tang Yunwei, Marva Collins, and Bill Felix,
and the follow-up panel to Art Wyatt's presentation
moderated by Steve Zeff. Stay tuned to email and
the AAA home page for updates on this project.
Monday,
August 4
Arthur
R. Wyatt, will be speaking at the Monday
plenary session on "Accounting
Professionalism—They Just Don't Get it!".
He was born in Aurora, Illinois, and graduated
with high honors from the University of Illinois,
where he later received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
and taught accountancy for fifteen years. In 1966,
Arthur Wyatt joined the international public accounting
firm of Arthur Andersen & Co. and subsequently
became Managing Director–Accounting Principles
and Chairman of the firm’s United States Committee
on Professional Standards. Mr. Wyatt served as Chairman
of the Accounting Standards Executive Committee
of the AICPA from 1977–1979, and was a member
of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Advisory
Council from 1978–1982 and of the AICPA Board
of Directors from 1980–1984. He has been a
member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board,
vice president of the AICPA, and vice president
and president of the American Accounting Association
(1991–1992). In 1993 Arthur Wyatt rejoined
the accountancy faculty at the University of Illinois
and teaches at that institution in the fall semesters.
Tuesday,
August 5
Tuesday’s
plenary will feature Joel S. Demski,
the immediate past President of the American Accounting
Association speaking about "Endogenous
Expectations.” Joel Demski is the Frederick
E. Fisher Eminent Scholar in Accounting at the University
of Florida’s Fisher School of Accounting and
his articles have appeared in such journals as The
Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting
and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research,
Accounting, Organizations and Society,
and Contemporary Accounting Research. He
is also the author or co-author of several books.
Professor Demski received B.S.E. and M.B.A. degrees
from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. from
the University of Chicago. He was awarded the AAA
Outstanding Educator Award in 1986 and is also the
recipient of Outstanding Contributions to Accounting
Literature Awards, the AAA Competitive Manuscript
Award, and the Notable Contribution to Management
Accounting Literature Award.
