2007–2008 AAA COMMITTEES

RESEARCH ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Charge:

Serve as the coordinating committee for Association activities that involve accounting research. Specifically:

1. Monitor the accounting research activities of other accounting associations (e.g. AICPA, FEI, IIA, and IMA) and coordinate with those organizations, as appropriate.
2. Advise the Vice-President/Research in the development and administration of the Association's programs in accounting research, including contributing to effective initiatives undertaken by headquarters' staff involved in faculty development, the regions and the sections.
3. Suggest ways to encourage research in accounting, including research related to discovery, integration, application and teaching.
4. Develop materials for AAA webpage to inform and attract students to PHD programs in accounting.
5. Provide effective research liaison with regions and sections.
6. Coordinate the work of research-designated committees, such as the Competitive Manuscript Committee, the Deloitte Wildman Medal Award Committee, the Doctoral Consortium Committee, the Financial Reporting Issues Conference Committee, the New Faculty Consortium Committee and the Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award Selection Committee.
7. Evaluate the current charge of this committee. If appropriate, recommend changes to the Executive Committee.
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:

Arnold Wright
Northeastern University
a.wright@neu.edu

Members:

EC Liaison:

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