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Discover Anaheim!The theme of the American Accounting Association's 2008 Annual Meeting is BUILDING OUR ACCOUNTING COMMUNITY. Our concept of Community is "inclusive." Everyone who becomes a member becomes a part of the accounting education community, regardless of whether we teach and research in financial accounting, managerial, taxation, auditing, governmental, systems, or are focused on the public interest, gender issues, or accounting history. Accounting scholarship similarly involves alternative conceptualizations; we study current practices, but we also imagine and analyze how and why practices could be different. Thus, accounting, as an ancient discipline that arose with mathematics and human civilization, examines not only the way things are (as a social science) but also how they might be (as an engineering and policy science). At our 2008 meeting we will celebrate and explore the power of accounting in all of these domains and for faculty members at all types of institutions. The meeting will be an inclusive gathering where you will be able to find something that intrigues you no matter what your area of interest or your country of origin. For example, because of Anaheim's proximity to the Pacific Rim countries, there will be special sessions devoted to accounting in those regions, where a large number of our overseas members reside. Our professional practice members, who interact with us on a variety of issues and who attract and recruit students to our discipline, are also expected to be actively involved in the program and events in Anaheim.

View AAA President, Gary Previts' remarks on Our AAA Member Community: Vision, Purpose, and Impact presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting in Chicago.

Gary J. Previts, AAA President for 2007-2008, is a Professor of Accountancy at Case Western Reserve University.