The Accounting Educator

The Newsletter of the Teaching and Curriculum Section
American Accounting Association

Vol. X No. 3 - Spring 2001

Reports from the Regions

Editor's Note: Reports from three of the regions follow. We will include other reports from the regions in future issues. Please check the T&C Website for updates on regional activities.

Western Region Report
Barbara Reider, Regional Director

The Western regional meeting of the AAA will be held in San Jose, California from May 3-5. The following papers were accepted for presentation either in a regular session or as part of the research forum:

  • H. Edward White, "The Cloudy Future of the Accounting Profession"
  • Steven Adams and Paul Krause, "Survey of Introductory Accounting Course Pedagogy"
  • Ralph Tower, "A Web Based Approach to Teaching Tax Research Fundamentals"
  • Adel Novin and Norm Meonske, "Barriers and Incentives for the Development of Partnership Between Accounting Faculty and Practioners"
  • Adel Novin, "Investigation into the Decline in the Number of Accounting Graduates"
  • Richard Powell, "The Management of Earnings and Other Accounting Information: Economic Incentives and Ethical Implications"
  • Donald Putnam, "The Angst of Accounting Education: Death Arrives in Installments, While Recovery is Problematic"
  • Kimberly Frank, D. Jordan Lowe, and Georgia Smedley, "Stakeholders' Perspectives of Accounting Faculty Time Allocations"
  • Alan Cherry, "Explaining Deferred Tax Liabilities Resulting from Depreciation Differences with the Net-of-Tax Method"
  • James Thompson, Thomas Hodge, Timothy McCoy, and Margaret Hoskins, "Faculty Perspectives on the Teaching of Intermediate Accounting"
  • S. Douglas Beets, "Differences in Student Learning Techniques: Cooperative Learning, Quizzes, and Homework"
  • Yan Xiong, "Cognitive Elaboration and Accounting Learning Outcomes"
  • Beverly Rowe, "Group Task Structure, Rewards, and Virtual Teams: A Study of Computer-Mediated Collaboration"
  • Carolyn Strand, Conni Lehmann, and Dan Hess, "Development of Competencies: A Cooperative Learning Resource Guide to Develop Teamwork and Communications Skills"
  • Janie Chang, "Auditors' Perceptions of College Exposure to and Firm Training on Information Technology Issues"
  • Nathan Oestreich, Robert Capettini, Martha Doran, and Kevin Lightner, "An Entities Based Approach to the Required Tax Component of the Undergraduate Accounting Curriculum"
  • Barbara Reider and Bonita Peterson, "Computer-Based Testing: Perceptions of Successful and Unsuccessful Certified in Financial Management Candidates, Accounting Educators, and Exam Administrators"
  • Nas Ahadiat, "Instructional Technology Used in Accounting Education: What Factors Influence or Hinder its Use"
  • Roberta Cable and Patricia Healy, "E-mail: Will this Medium Affect the Quality of Written Assignments?"
  • C. Terry Grant, Conrad S. Ciccotello, and Mark Dickie, "How Expensive is the 150-Hour Rule?"
  • Bonita Peterson and Barbara Reider, "An Examination of Forensic Accounting Courses: Content and Learning Activities"
  • Jack Robison, Mary Beth Armstrong, and Janice Carr, "Incorporating Ethics into Tax Classes: A theoretical Framework"
  • Janice Carr and Kathy Lancaster, "The 150-Hour Education Requirement: A Perspective of California's Accounting Education Programs"
  • Roberta Jones, "University Students' Perceptions of Computer Instruction within the College of Business"
  • John Thornton and Martin Hornyak, "Make Student Feedback Meaningful: Customizing Course Critiques"
  • Daniel Law, "The Effects of School Involvement on the Emotional Exhaustion Component of Burnout for Accounting Students"
  • T. Amer, C. Bain, and Nancy Wilburn, "Utilizing Professional Accounting Panels as a Co-Curricular Student Development Activity: Informing Students about the Accounting Profession"
  • Richard Hulme and John Karayan, "An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Gender and Problem-Solving Styles"

Southwest Region
Barbara Scofield, Associate Regional Director

The Southwest Region of the Teaching & Curriculum Section sponsored three sessions with ten papers from seventeen authors at twelve universities at the spring Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Accounting Association in New Orleans. In addition, a panel on "The Implications of 150-Hour Laws on Accounting Education" was held, and the plenary session by Dr. Joel S. Demski spoke on "Frictions and Opportunities in Accounting Education." A highlight of the business meeting was the presentation of both the Teaching & Curriculum Section Award and the Prentice Hall Outstanding Educator Award to Marilyn Young of Lipscomb University for her paper "The Impact of the Hope Scholarship Credit on Tuition and Enrollment of Postsecondary Educational Institutions."

The Southwest Region of the American Accounting Association meets annually with Southwestern Federation of Administrative Disciplines, which has just changed its name to Federation of Business Disciplines. With the change in name is a change in meeting location to St. Louis, Missouri March 6-9, 2002. Southwest Region Teaching & Curriculum Section invites the submission of papers in education and will again identify an outstanding manuscript for recognition.

Southeast Region
Laura R. Ingraham, Regional Director

As in the past, the Southeast Region's Teaching and Curriculum section members submitted many high quality papers for this year's meeting in Tampa, FL. For the first time, the section selected a paper to receive an "outstanding manuscript" award. This year's award went to Professor Julia Higgs (Florida Atlantic University) and Professor John Reisch (East Carolina University) for "Testing NCAA compliance at Southeastern State University: A case study." The $250 award will be shared by the two authors. Congratulations to Julia and John for an outstanding manuscript! It is not too early to begin thinking about next year's regional meeting. If you have any suggestions for next year's regional meeting or would like to volunteer as a paper reviewer, discussant, or panel member, please contact either of the section's co-directors, Laura Ingraham or Greg Jenkins (both at North Carolina State University).

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