Call for Submissions
Submission Deadline - January 7, 2008

Building Our Accounting Community
The theme of the American Accounting Association's 2008 Annual Meeting is Building Our Accounting Community.

The AAA invites academic and practitioner members from around the world to submit papers for concurrent sessions and proposals for a variety of types of at large concurrent sessions, and to volunteer to support the selection and review process as well as to participate, in the 2008 Annual Meeting itself from August 3 to August 6 in Anaheim, California. Adjacent Hotels, the Hilton Anaheim (777 Convention Way) and the Anaheim Marriott (700 West Convention Way) will be our headquarters facilities. President Gary John Previts (Case Western Reserve University) and Program Co-chairs Dale and Tonya Flesher (University of Mississippi) are planning a stimulating program. The on-line submission center is now open. Papers may be submitted anytime between now and the January 7 deadline. In addition to presenting a paper, there are other important ways to participate. For example, consider signing up to be a reviewer of papers and/or a moderator or discussant.

Submission Opportunities
Guidelines for Online Submission of Papers
Section Liaisons - Contact Info

Submission Deadlines
Submissions are being accepted online and must be received by midnight eastern time on Monday January 7, 2008 to be considered for inclusion in the program. There is no submission fee. All submissions must be submitted electronically and can be submitted online at http://aaahq.org/AM2008/submit.htm.

2008 AAA Annual Meeting Submission Opportunities

Emerging and Innovative Research Sessions
These sessions are intended to highlight promising emerging and innovative research ideas. Authors will submit a short abstract of three to four pages that describes their work in progress or a planned session that will bring ideas currently outside accounting to the attention of accounting scholars. These sessions can be either in the form of a concurrent session or in an interactive format where authors provide graphical representations, interactive technologies, and displays to highlight key findings and research methods that will facilitate discussion with participants. Members of the Annual Meeting Program Advisory Committee will review submissions under this category.

Concurrent Paper Sessions
Papers are sought for presentation in concurrent sessions on topics of interest to accounting researchers, educators and practitioners. Concurrent paper session submissions are assigned by Section/Topic Liaisons to be peer reviewed by colleagues in the section/topic area. Section/Topic Liaisons are listed below and on the Annual Meeting website.

Concurrent Panel Sessions
Panel session submissions are sought that address current issues of practice, scholarly projects and findings, teaching and curriculum approaches and initiatives. Panel sessions are submitted to and reviewed by Section/Topic liaisons. Section leaders are encouraged to consider developing panel sessions addressing linkages between the private and public sector as they relate to issues affecting their members.

New Scholar Concurrent Sessions
New Scholar Concurrent Sessions provide junior faculty members constructive feedback on their research prior to submission. Faculty earning their Ph.D. in 2005 or after and current Ph.D. students are eligible to submit papers for consideration. Submitted papers in this category are peer reviewed. Senior researchers in each area will critique papers accepted for the New Scholar Concurrent sessions and provide feedback in small interactive sessions with authors. In addition, individuals whose papers are accepted for the New Scholar Concurrent Sessions will be asked to review and critique another accepted paper.

New Scholars Concurrent sessions are 90-minute time blocks. Two new scholars and two senior faculty are paired at small tables. Each senior faculty provides 10-15 minutes of constructive feedback on each paper, and each new scholar will provide 15 minutes of feedback on the other new scholar’s paper. Both senior faculty and new scholars will provide written feedback for the new scholars at their table. The goal of New Scholar Concurrent Sessions is to help authors improve a promising working paper for future journal submission. Therefore, submitted papers must not be currently under review at a journal.

The text of the submitted papers must be less than 30 pages in length (not including references, endnotes, tables, figures and appendices). Co-authored papers are acceptable, even if one of the coauthors does not meet the definition of a new scholar in this submission category. One coauthor for each accepted paper may participate along with the New Scholar in the session, but the submitting New Scholar must attend. Papers selected for the New Scholars Concurrent Session will be listed in the official program of the 2006 annual meeting.

New Scholars Concurrent Sessions are open only to the participants. Some AAA sections may choose to highlight the research of new scholars during one concurrent session or panel. Check the Annual Meeting website to see if your section is participating in New Scholar Concurrent sessions.

Effective Learning Strategies Session
This Forum showcases ideas, research, strategies and education innovations that support learning in accounting. The interactive format provides opportunities for presenters to have an intimate forum for exchange of ideas and resources. Members interested in sharing learning-related interests and projects, scholarship of teaching projects, and educational innovations are encouraged to submit proposals that are reviewed and selected by members of the Accounting Education Committee.

Research Forum Session
The Research Forum will continue in a format designed to encourage interaction among participants and broader dissemination of findings, ideas, and implications of their research. In this interactive format authors will be given space to provide graphical representations, interactive technologies, and displays to highlight key findings and research methods that will facilitate discussion with participants. Presentation guidelines are available from section liaisons.

Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Sessions
(Sat. and Sun. 8/2 & 8/3)
The program of half and full day workshops comprising the CPE program provides opportunities for in-depth attention and study of more complex issues and topics. Subjects range from relevant issues in practice, to current standards activity, from teaching approaches and resources, to current areas of scholarship. The CPE program is held on the two days preceding the AAA Annual Meeting, this year that will be Saturday and Sunday 8/2 and 8/3. Submitted CPE proposals are reviewed and selected by members of the Accounting Education Committee.

Online Availability of Papers
Once submissions are accepted, authors choose options about availability of their materials online. Titles and abstracts for all papers will be included both online and in print materials.

Online posting options available to authors include:

1) Full text posted on the Annual Meeting website approximately 30 days before and after the dates of the meeting.

2) Full text included in a Meeting Proceedings series the AAA is considering developing as part of the AAA publications permanent collection online to which libraries and members subscribe.

The AAA has determined that availability of papers in either choice above will not preclude subsequent publication in AAA journals. The Program Advisory Committee encourages authors to include their full-text online and in the Meeting Proceedings, to enable interested parties to read them in preparation for the meeting. Authors are responsible to check the policies of any non-AAA journals to which they might submit their paper, to determine whether those journals have different policies regarding online postings and Meeting Proceedings.

Submission Fee
A submission fee will not be required for submissions to the 2008 Annual Meeting.

Guidelines for Online Submission of Papers

Content
The body of your submission should include ONLY the title and content of the paper in PDF format. The body of your submission MUST NOT include any identifying author information.

Ancillary files, such as tables, Excel^® worksheets, PowerPoint^® slides, etc., should be converted to PDF and appended to the main submission PDF file, prior to submission. Only ONE FILE may be uploaded at the time of submission. Free software is available to convert documents from any application to PDF format and to consolidate multiple PDF files. Download The Pdf995 Suite at: http://www.pdf995.com/. For additional help on downloading pdf995 and converting to PDFs, click on these detailed instructions.

DO NOT:

• include a cover page with your submission. Information typically provided on a cover page will be entered on the online submission form.
• enter submission titles, author/panelist/presenter names, and affiliations in all upper-case letters when filling out the submission form. They must be in upper and lower case with major words capitalized. In addition, affiliations should not abbreviated.

DO INCLUDE:

• A 150-word (maximum) ABSTRACT on the online submission form only. DO NOT include the abstract with the body of your submission.
• Content of your submission in PDF format. The body of your submission MUST NOT include any identifying author information.
• Any ancillary files, such as tables, Excel® worksheets, PowerPoint® slides, etc., should be converted to PDF format and appended to the main submission PDF file prior to submission. Only ONE FILE may be uploaded at the time of submission. For assistance with multiple file submissions, please contact the appropriate Section Liaison (see below) for your submission category.
• Indication to which of the AAA Sections your submission should be directed. Choose the Section that most closely matches the topic area of your submission. In addition to AAA Sections, a "History and Integrative" submission category has been included.
• By establishing the "History and Integrative" category, we hope to encourage submissions that may not fit well within a section category or that will integrate across traditional domains. Please submit to the "History and Integrative" category if your submission deals with history research, clearly integrates across traditional Section topics, or otherwise clearly does not pertain to a Section. Submissions to this category that are deemed to be within the purview of a Section category will be redirected to that Section for review. Papers and proposals must be designated for one, and only one, of the submission categories on the following list:

Submission Limitations

• Papers should not be submitted that have been published, accepted for publication, or that will have been presented at more than one AAA Section or Regional Meeting.
  
  
• Submission of a paper implies a commitment by at least one author to register for and attend the meeting to present the paper at the appointed time.
  
  
• Presenters must provide an adequate supply of handouts or papers for distribution to session attendees.

Mulitple Submissions

• The complete submission process must be repeated each time you submit a paper, panel, CPE proposal, ELS proposal, or Emerging Research Project. Submit the form ONLY ONCE to volunteer as a reviewer/moderator/discussant. Since each submission will receive a unique Submission ID, you are encouraged to use the same email address, user ID, and password for all submissions.
  
  
• By AAA policy, an individual is limited to one personal appearance on the program as a presenting author. This policy allows multiple submissions but precludes acceptance for more than one presentation. A presenter may be a non-presenting co-author on additional papers. If a presenting author has papers accepted in more than one Section, the confirmation process will ask the author to choose which paper he/she will present.

Submission Questions
Contact the appropriate Section Liaison from the list above.