ABO Notable Contribution Award
in Behavioral Accounting Literature
Lifetime Contributions

It is my distinct pleasure and honor to present this award to Ted Mock.

I have known Ted, or as he is affectionately known as "Hollywood Ted", for about 30 years since a doctoral student at USC. I look up to him as a role model, mentor, and close friend. I have just about forgiven him for leaving USC while I was working on my dissertation to go to what was then Peat Marwick as the first research fellow. He was instrumental there in helping to launch the Research Opportunities In Auditing program that sparked the tremendous interest in auditing research. I also remember Ted for his wild and crazy ties, especially his Chinese tie with the symbols on it. (No one quite knew what those symbols meant.)

Ted has long list of publications, awards, and accomplishments. He is known for his pioneering work, first, early in his career in management accounting for the value of budget information and for the application of measurement theory to Accounting. Then, his work with Jerry Turner at Peat Marwick on auditors' evaluation of internal controls that led to fundamental questions about consensus and the need for decision aids or training in practice. He has continued to look at a broad array of auditing and behavioral issues including evidential reasoning, program planning, and fraud detection. Ted is always at the forefront of ideas.

Ted is also known as the originator of the Audit Judgment Symposium almost 25 years ago, which subsequently became the International Symposium On Auditing Research (ISAR). This symposium has been a significant catalyst for behavioral research. Ted cleverly invited many editors of major journals to the symposium so that they could "see the light" about the value and importance of behavioral research.

Ted is also responsible for being a major catalyst in encouraging auditing and behavioral research outside of North America. He visited the Norwegian School of Economics and Otago University in 1988 as a Fulbright Scholar and in 1991 was the co-founder of the Maastricht Audit Research Symposium. He has also visited a long list of other universities in Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. So much so, we also call him "traveling Ted."

Ted has received numerous honors, including the AAA Competitive Manuscript Award (twice), the AAA Wildman Award, elected president of the Auditing Section, selected as editor of AJPT, the Joint AICPA/AAA Collaboration Award, and the Auditing Section Outstanding Auditing Educator Award.

Before I formally present Ted with the award I'd like to acknowledge the work of the selection committee, consisting of the chair of the committee (Seleshi Sisaye) and the four members who are past recipients of the award: Bob Ashton; Bob Libby; Jake Birnberg; and Ken Merchant.

With that said it is my pleasure to give Ted Mock the ABO Notable Contribution Award in Behavioral Accounting Literature/Lifetime Contributions Award for 2006.

Arnie Wright, Boston College