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American Accounting Association

2006–2007 AAA COMMITTEES


FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS COMMITTEE

Charge:

Coordinate all Association activities with respect to financial accounting standard setting. Specifically:

  1. Assess the financial accounting standard setting activities of the FASB and IASB, and other such organizations, especially with respect to their impact on accounting profession and research, and provide feedback to them in writing and by appearing at selected public hearings.
  2. Evaluate selected discussion memoranda and exposure drafts related to financial accounting and reporting in the private sector as they are released by the FASB, and IASB, and other accounting standard-setting groups, and respond to those groups in writing and by appearing at selected public hearings.
  3. Stay cognizant of emerging issues related to financial accounting and reporting in the private sector through materials issued by the Emerging Issues Task Force and other relevant sources, and evaluate, where appropriate, the significance and potential implications of such issues.
  4. Meet with the FASB, normally on an annual basis.
  5. Recognize emerging international issues related to financial accounting, reporting and auditing; alert others inside the Association about their importance to determine the likely significance and potential implications of such issues.
  6. Explore the publication of selected responses by the committee in Accounting Horizons or other appropriate outlets.
  7. Consider and promote ways to increase the quantity and quality of academic input to the standard-setting process.
  8. Provide a progress report to the Executive Committee liaison in time to be included in the agenda book for each Executive Committee meeting.

Chair:

Joel Demski - 3*
University of Florida
joel.demski@cba.ufl.edu

Members

Bala Ganga Dharan - 1 Rice University bala@rice.edu
George Vrana - 1 Ernst & Young george.vrana@ey.com
Bob Laux - 1 Microsoft boblaux@microsoft.com
Shiva Rajgopal - 2 University of Washington rajgopal@u.washington.edu
Mark Bradshaw - 2 Harvard University mbradshaw@hbs.edu
Douglas Carmichael - 3 Baruch College douglas_carmichael@baruch.cuny.edu
Karim Jamal - 3 University of Alberta karim.jamal@ualberta.ca
George Benston - 3 Emory University george_benston@bus.emory.edu

EC Liaison

Shyam Sunder Yale University shyam.sunder@yale.edu

* The number indicates years of service remaining

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