The Board of Directors of the American Accounting Association established a series of Presidential Lectures, to be delivered at the Annual Meetings of the Association. Each year the President presiding at the Annual Meeting chooses a scholar or scholars to serve in the role of Presidential Scholar(s). To encourage broad dissemination, when presented by the scholar/s, the Board has requested that The Accounting Review publish these lectures. The first lecture was presented in 1999.

Meeting Year Appointing President Presidential Scholar Date Published in The Accounting Review
       
1999 Michael A. Diamond Shyam Sunder  
       
2000 Jan R. Williams William R. Kinney, Jr. Volume 76, No. 2 – April 2001
       
2001 Mary S. Stone William H. Beaver Volume 77, No. 2 – April 2002
       
2002 Joel S. Demski Jerry Feltham  
       
2003 G. Peter Wilson Joel S. Demski Volume 79, No. 2 – April 2004
       
2004 William L. Felix, Jr. James A. Ohlson Volume 81, No. 1 – January 2006
       
2005 Jane F. Mutchler Katherine Schipper Volume 82, No. 2 – March 2007
       
2006 Judy D. Rayburn Anthony Hopwood Volume 82, No. 5 – October 2007
       
2007 Shyam Sunder John Dickhaut Volume 84, No. 6 - November 2009
       
2008 Gary Previts Zoe-Vonna Palmrose Volume 84, No. 2 – March 2009
       
2009 Susan F. Haka John A. Christensen Volume 85, No. 6 – November 2010
       
2010 Nancy Bagranoff Robert S. Kaplan Volume 86, No. 2 – March 2011
       
2011 Kevin Stocks Stephen Zeff Volume 87, No. 3 – May 2012
       
2012 Greg Waymire Ray Ball & Phillip Brown Volume 89, No. 1 - January 2014
       
2013 Karen Pincus Michael Jensen  
       
2014 Mary Barth William H. Beaver Volume 90, No. 3 -  May 2015 
       
2015 Christine Botosan Charles M. C. Lee  
       
2016 Bruce Behn Mary Barth, John Christensen, Kazuo Hiramatsu Volume 93, No. 6 - November 2018
       
2017 David Burgstahler S.P. Kothari & Richard G. Sloan  Volume 94, No. 2 - March 2019
       
2018 Anne Christensen Christine A. Botosan & Lillian F. Mills Volume 94, No. 4 - July 2019
       
2019 Marc Rubin Erik Brynjolfsson  
       
2020 Terry Shevlin Michelle Hanlon & Douglas Shackelford Volume 96, No 5 - September 2021
       
2021 Elaine Mauldin Jennifer R. Joe Volume 98, No 1 - January 2023
       
2022 Robert Allen Patricia Dechow Volume 98, No 5 - September 2023
       
2023 Mark Dawkins Carolyn M. Callahan &  Dr. Thomas J. Lopez