Annual Best Paper Awards
Previous Winners
2021
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
Press Release
"Investigating Accountants' Resistance to Move beyond Excel and Adopt New Data Analytics Technology."
Pamela Jeanné Schmidt
Jennifer Riley
Kimberly Swanson ChurchAccounting Horizons, December 2020, Volume 34, No. 4, pp. 165-180.
Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
Press Release
"Research Initiatives in Accounting Education: Toward a More Inclusive Accounting Academy."
Helen Brown-Liburd
Jennifer R. JoeIssues in Accounting Education, September 2020, Volume 35, No. 4, pp. 87-110.
2020
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
Press Release
"Robotic Process Automation in Public Accounting."
Lauren Cooper
D. Kip Holderness, Jr.
Trevor L. Sorensen
David A. Wood
Accounting Horizons, December 2019, Volume 33, No. 42, pp. 15-35.
Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
Press Release"Diamond Foods, Inc.: A Comprehensive Case in Financial Analysis and Valuation."
Mahendra R. Gujarathi
Issues in Accounting Education, February 2019, Volume 34, No. 1, pp. 13-33.
2019
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
Press Release"A Review of the Archival Literature on Audit Partners."
Clive S. Lennox
Xi Wu
Accounting Horizons, June 2018, Volume 32, No. 2, pp. 1-35.
Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
Press Release"Using Visualization Software in the Audit of Revenue Transactions to Identify Anomalies."
Lauren M. Cunningham
Sarah E. Stein
Issues in Accounting Education, November 2018, Volume 33, No. 4, pp. 33-46.
2018
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
Press Release“Who Uses Financial Statements? A Demographic Analysis of Financial Statement Downloads from EDGAR”
Michael S. Drake
Phillip J. Quinn
Jacob R. Thornock
Accounting Horizons. September 2017, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 55-68.
Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
Press Release
“Are Accountants Made or Born? An Analysis of Self-Selection into the Accounting Major and Performance in Accounting Courses and on the CPA Exam”
Allen D. Blay
M. G. Fennema
Issues in Accounting Education. August 2017, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 33-50.
2017Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
Press Release"Comparing the Publication Process in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, Psychology, and the Natural Sciences"
David A. Wood
Accounting Horizons. September 2016, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 341-361
Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
Press Release
"How to Review a Paper"
Derek K. Oler and William R. Pasewark
Issues in Accounting Education. May 2016, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 219-234
2016Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
Press Release“Accelerated Filing Deadlines, Internal Controls, and Financial Statement Quality: The Case of Originating Misstatements”
Colleen M. Boland, Scott N. Bronson, and Chris E. Hogan
Accounting Horizons. September 2015, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 265-295
“Financial Engineering and the Arms Race between Accounting Standard Setters and Preparers”
Ronald A. Dye, Jonathan C. Glover, and Shyam Sunder
Accounting Horizons. June 2015, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 551-575
Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
Press Release“Witnessing Your Own Cognitive Bias: A Compendium of Classroom Exercises”
Rebecca G. Fay and Norma R. Montague
Issues in Accounting Education. February 2015, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 13-342015
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
Press Release"The Myth of Rigorous Accounting Research"
Paul F. Williams
Accounting Horizons. December 2014, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 869-887Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
Press Release"Accounting Education Research: Ranking Institutions and Individual Scholars"
D. Kip Holderness, Jr., Noah M. Myers, Scott L. Summers, and David A. Wood
Issues in Accounting Education. February 2014, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 87-115
2014
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
Press Release"Integrating Information Technology into Accounting Research and Practice"
Guido L. Geerts, Lynford E. Graham, Elaine G. Mauldin, William E. McCarthy, and Vernon J. Richardson
Accounting Horizons. Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2012) pp. 815-840.Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
Press Release"Publication Benchmarking Data Based on Faculty Promoted at the Top 75 U.S. Accounting Research Institutions"
Steven M. Glover, Douglas F. Prawitt, Scott L. Summers and David A. Wood
Issues in Accounting Education. Volume 27, Issue 3 (August 2012) pp. 647-670."Seeds of Innovation in Accounting Scholarship"
Gregory B. Waymire
Issues in Accounting Education. Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2012) pp. 1077-1093.
2013
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
Press Release"A Post-SOX Examination of Factors Associated with the Size of Internal Audit Functions"
Urton L. Anderson, Margaret H. Christ, Karla M. Johnstone and Larry E. Rittenberg
Accounting Horizons. Volume 26, Issue 2 (June 2012) pp. 167-191.Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
Press Release"Publication Benchmarking Data Based on Faculty Promoted at the Top 75 U.S. Accounting Research Institutions"
Steven M. Glover, Douglas F. Prawitt, Scott L. Summers and David A. Wood
Issues in Accounting Education. Volume 27, Issue 3 (August 2012) pp. 647-670."Seeds of Innovation in Accounting Scholarship"
Gregory B. Waymire
Issues in Accounting Education. Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2012) pp. 1077-1093.
2012
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
Press Release"Accounting Doctoral Program Rankings on Research Productivity of Program Graudates Accounting Horizons"
Nathaniel M. Stephens, Scott L. Summers, Brady Williams, David A Wood
Accounting Horizons, Volume 25.149-181—2011Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
Press Release"Individual Accounting Faculty Research Rankings by Topical Area and Methodology Issues in Accounting Education"
Jeffrey Pickerd, Nathaniel M. Stephens, Scott L. Summers; David A. Wood
Issues in Accounting Education, Volume 26.471-505— 2011
2011
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
Press Release"Neuroaccounting: Consilience between the Biologically Evolved Brain and Culturally Evolved Accounting Principles"
John Dickhaut, Sudipta Basu, Kevin McCabe and Greg Waymire
Accounting Horizons, Volume 24.2 — 2010Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
Press Release"Accounting Program Research Rankings by Topical Area and Methodology"
Joshua G. Coyne, Scott L. Summers, Brady Williams and David A. Wood
Issues in Accounting Education, Volume 25.4 — 2010
2010
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
Press Release"The Impact of Academic Accounting Research on Professional Practice: An Analysis by the AAA Research Impact Task Force"
(AAA Research Impact Task Force)Stephen Moehrle, Kirsten Anderson, Frances Ayres, Cynthia Bolt-Lee, Roger Debreceny, Mike Dugan, Chris Hogan, Michael Maher, Elizabeth Plummer
Accounting Horizons, Volume 23.4— 2009Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
Press Release"Blessed Are the Gatekeepers: A Longitudinal Study of the Editorial Boards of The Accounting Review"
Timothy J. Fogarty and Chih-Hsien Liao
Issues in Accounting Education, Volume 24.3— 2009
2009
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
Press Release"Rules and Accounting: Vagueness in Conceptual Frameworks"
Mark C. Penno
Accounting Horizons, Volume 22.3 — 2008Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
Press Release"What I Have Learned So Far: Observations on Managing an Academic Accounting Career"
Dana R. Hermanson
Issues in Accounting Education, Volume 23.1— 2008
2008
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
Press Release"Beyond Competition: Institutional Isomorphism in U.S. Accounting Research"
Brad Tuttle and Jesse Dillard
Accounting Horizons, Volume 21.4 — 2007Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
Press Release"An Empirical Assessment of the Rise and Fall of Accounting as an Academic Discipline"
Timothy J. Fogarty and Garen Markarian
Issues in Accounting Education, Volume 22.2 — 2007
2007
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
"Recordkeeping and Human Evolution"
Sudipta Basu and Gregory B. Waymire
Accounting Horizons, Volume 20.3 — 2006Issues in Accounting Educations Best Paper Award
"Publications Records of Faculty Promoted at the Top 75 Accounting Research Programs"
Steven M. Glover, Douglas F. Prawitt and David A. Wood
Issues in Accounting Education, Volume 21.3 — 2006
2006
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
"Does Graduate Business Education Contribute to Professional Accounting Success?"
Benson Wier, Dan N. Stone, and James E. Hunton
Accounting Horizons, Volume 19.2 — 2005Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
"Accounting for Liabilities: Conceptual Issues, Standard Setting, and Evidence from Academic Research"
Christine A. Botosan, Lisa Koonce, Stephen G. Ryan, Mary S. Stone, and James M. Wahlen
Accounting Horizons, Volume 19.3 — 2005