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Participate in the 2008 Research Conference.

The 2008 ABO Research Conference will be held in Providence, Rhode Island, on October 9-11, 2008. The meeting headquarters is the Providence Marriott Downtown near the State Capitol building, an easy walk to shops, restaurants and theaters of the city center, the lovely Benefit Street area, and College Hill (with Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design). For more Providence information, please visit: http://www.providenceri.com/. You may find the Arts & Entertainment – especially the amazing photo gallery – and Vacation & Traveling links particularly useful.

In anticipation of high demand for the conference, we were able to secure a larger block of rooms than was available for last's year conference. However, we encourage all colleagues to reserve their room early.

All paper submissions should be made electronically. Please email all submissions to the conference chairs, Jean Bedard and Jay Thibodeau (GA_ABO_Conference2008@bentley.edu). The deadline for submissions is JUNE 30, 2008. The manuscript should be submitted in Word format with all author identification removed from the document. A separate file should contain
the paper's title, along with authors' names, institution affiliation, and contact information. For field surveys or experiments, please submit the data collection instrument. At the time of submission, papers should not have been accepted for publication. Papers should follow the style guidelines for American Accounting Association publications. The submission fee is $25.00 (no fee for doctoral students). Send the submission fee to:

Jay C. Thibodeau
Department of Accountancy
Bentley College
175 Forest St.
Waltham, MA 02452

Selection of conference papers will be announced by August 22, 2008. In addition to the usual paper sessions, panels, research forum and doctoral consortium, this year we will add a Best Paper Award, to be chosen by conference organizers based on reviews of submitted papers. In addition, consistent with last year, we are pleased to include an Emerging Scholars session at the conference. This session will showcase the work of new scholars while providing them with detailed constructive feedback on their papers through the assignment of senior discussants. Faculty who have graduated within the past three years and doctoral students are encouraged to submit their work to this session. Please include a note with your submission to indicate "emerging scholars" submission. Submissions to the Emerging Scholars session will also be considered for inclusion in regular conference research sessions.

At this time, we are also interested in identifying volunteers for the conference process, including reviewers, discussants and moderators. If you are interested in volunteering for one of these roles, please email us as soon as possible at: GA_ABO_Conference2008@bentley.edu. Watch the ABO website for further details on the conference.

Yours truly,

Jean C. Bedard and Jay C. Thibodeau - Conference Chairs