T&C Executive Meeting
7:00 - 9:00 a.m. Sunday, August 8, 2004
Orlando Marriott World Center, Room 476, 4th Floor
Poster Presentation
Joseph A. Mauriello, PhD, CPA, and Professor Emeritus, Accounting, New York University, Graduate School of Business Administration, is making a poster presentation at the annual meeting in Orlando. The poster session title is A New Methodology of Learning Financial Accounting.
Professor Mauriello will present what he believes are the essential ingredients and enhancing teaching devices that produce a scientific, logical, and thorough curriculum for the basic course in financial accounting. The ingredients include precise language, FASB standards, proposed standards encompassing financial status, coding and classification of items, a comprehensive chart of accounts for universal recording, and the same chart, condensed and compartmentalized for learning.
Professor Mauriello terms his system the Group-Account, Item-Characteristic Methodology of Learning Financial Accounting. He maintains that the system reduces learning time significantly, and yet enables the student to absorb total accounting knowledge.
T&C Publishes Best Practices in Accounting Program Assessment
Section members should look out for the T&C sponsored monograph titled Best Practices in Accounting Program Assessment by Thomas G. Calderon, Brian Patrick Green, and Michael Harkness. The monograph contains several "best practice" cases in accounting program assessment, a survey of accounting program assessment practices, assessment metrics used by AACSB accredited accounting programs, conceptual frameworks for assessment, and a discussion of issues related to faculty support for assessment. The monograph will be distributed at no cost to T&C members in Orlando and at future AAA regional meetings. With only a limited number of copies printed, the monograph will be distributed on a first-come-first-served basis. We are grateful to Thomas, Brian, and Mike for their invaluable service to the Section. A long list of other T&C members and friends contributed to the monograph. We are also very grateful to them.
Section Sponsors Best Practices in Accounting Program Assessment Workshop at Annual Meeting in Orlando
For the second straight year, the Section is sponsoring the Best Practices in Accounting Program Assessment Workshop at the annual meeting in Orlando. Workshop leaders are Thomas G. Calderon, Brian Patrick Green, and Michael D. Harkness. Other presenters at the workshop include Paul Bayes (East Tennessee State University), Jack Elfrink (Central Missouri State University), Pat Eason (Texas, El Paso), Rita Czaja (Northern Kentucky University), Cheryl Mitchem (Virginia State University), and John Moore (Virginia State University). This half-day workshop, scheduled for August 8 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, will focus on how accounting departments and business schools are assessing the learning goals and outcomes of their programs. Workshop leaders will present and discuss results and case studies from the T&C's Best Practices in Assessment Project. The workshop will engage participants in discussions on the types of assessment activities that work and those that do not work. Presenters will also address issues related to efficiency (leveraging limited resources) and effectiveness (continuous improvement) of program assessment.
Among the specific objectives of the workshop are:
- identify and discuss characteristics of effective assessment programs;
- obtain an understanding of innovative frameworks used to guide assessment activities, such as the balanced scorecard and the Baldrige Criteria;
- examine and discuss program assessment activities that work;
- present innovative approaches employed by accounting departments to engage faculty in using assessment for continuous improvement
All workshop participants will receive a copy of the T&C sponsored monograph titled Best Practices in Accounting Program Assessment.
Call for Associate Newsletter Editors and Ad Hoc Newsletter Contributors
Wendy Tietz at Kent State University (wtietz@bsa3.kent.edu) will be our 2004-05 newsletter editor. Wendy has already begun planning for the newsletter, and she has identified several areas in which she would like the Section's membership to contribute. She will publish three issues of the newsletter during 2004-05-Fall 2004, Winter 2005, and Spring/Summer 2005. The table below shows the major theme for each issue, the deadline for receiving articles on each theme, and the expected publication dates.
| Issue |
Theme |
Submission Deadline |
Expected Publication Date |
| Fall 2004 |
Innovation in the Classroom: Technology & More |
9/30/04 |
10/15/04 |
| Winter 2005 |
Reflecting on What We Teach |
1/30/05 |
2/15/05 |
| Spring/Summer 2005 |
Assessment Techniques for Programs and Courses |
5/30/05 |
6/15/05 |
Themes and ad hoc contributors
We expect to publish about three short articles or cases (1 - 4 pages per article) on each theme. Members are invited and encouraged to submit articles on any of the three themes to Wendy Tietz at wtietz@bsa3.kent.edu. Articles and cases should not exceed 4 pages (double-spaced lines, 12 point font).
Articles and cases for the first theme (innovation in the classroom) should describe classroom innovations that work. These articles and cases will offer members an opportunity to share new teaching methods, curriculum changes, cases, simulations, and technology they have tried. Contributors will describe the innovation, present any evidence they have to show that the innovation works in the classroom, and discuss why they believe the innovation works.
The second theme focuses on the accounting curriculum and the courses that we teach. Articles and cases on this theme will be reflective pieces on the accounting curriculum, specific courses, or accounting topics. These pieces will share ideas on what we teach, how we teach it, and why we teach it.
The final issue of the 2004-05 newsletter will focus on assessment. Articles and cases on this theme will describe how accounting departments define learning goals for their programs and courses, how they measure those learning goals, how they evaluate performance relative to the learning goals they establish, and how they use assessment information to improve programs and courses.
Associate editors
In addition to articles on each theme, the newsletter will include columns on (a) current teaching and curriculum research update, (b) professional examination news, (c) current events of interest to members, and (d) textbook and ancillary news. Our plan is to have an associate editor in charge of each column. The associate editor is responsible for contributing material for each issue of the newsletter by the deadline. Members who are interested in serving the Section as associate editors should send an e-mail to the 2004-05 Section Chair at tcalderon@uakron.edu. In the e-mail, please state your interest in serving as an associate editor in one of the areas listed below.
Associate Editor, Current Research Update: This associate editor will provide a very brief (about three lines) synopsis of recently published accounting education articles in Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Accounting Education, Advances in Accounting Education, Accounting Education: An International Journal, and any other relevant journal articles about accounting education.
Associate Editor, Professional Exam News: This associate editor would provide updates on the professional exams, including non-U.S. professional accounting examinations.
Associate Editor, Current Events: This associate editor would report on announcements, events and upcoming conferences/meetings/workshops of interest to T&C members.
Associate Editor, Textbook & Ancillary News: This associate editor would provide updates on new editions and classroom support materials available from the textbook publishers. The updates would be listings (not reviews).
With your help, we look forward to publishing three very engaging issues of the newsletter in 2004–05. We look forward to your support and encourage you to contribute to your newsletter.