2008–2009 AAA COMMITTEES

PROFESSIONALISM AND ETHICS COMMITTEE

Charge:

To acquaint accounting academics with ways and means of inculcating in students the centrality of professional and ethical behavior in their accounting careers, and to stimulate an interest among academics to include this dimension in their teaching.

To encourage and support accounting ethics education and scholarship in universities, and more broadly to set a tone for instilling a greater sense of professionalism and ethical conduct in the practice and teaching of accounting. Specifically:

Develop an annotated bibliography of the literature exemplifying professionalism and ethical conduct that could be considered by academics for use in sensitizing students to the value of principled behavior in all aspects of professional life.
Encourage the development of suitable forums for bringing to the attention to academics and students the centrality of professional and ethic conduct in an accounting career, including the desirability and practicability of incorporating appropriate teaching materials in an accounting curriculum.
Continue to offer the Symposium on Ethics Research in Accounting in conjunction with the AAA annual meeting.
Maintain/update the Ethics Link Library on the AAA website.
Provide a progress report to the Executive Committee liaison person in time for inclusion in the agenda book for each Executive Committee meeting.

Membership

New committee members are appointed annually by the President.

Meeting

This committee meets as needed.

Responsibilities

Fulfill the committee charter as above.
The Chair prepares and sends a progress report twice every term-year, with deadlines of October 29th 2008 and March 4th 2009, to the Executive Committee Liaison, AAA President, and Executive Director regarding accomplishments or modifications.

Chair:

C. Richard Baker - 4 - 08/2009
Adelphi University
Baker3@Adelphi.edu

Members:

Name Affiliation	Email	Term Length	Term Expires
Parveen Gupta Lehigh University	ppg0@lehigh.edu	1	08/2009
Larry Parker Case Western Reserve University	larry.parker@case.edu	2	08/2009
Mark Chain Deloitte	mchain@deloitte.com	2	08/2009
Tim Fogarty Case Western Reserve University	tjf@case.edu	2	08/2009
Don Finn University of North Texas	Don.Finn@unt.edu	2	08/2010
Diane Roberts University of San Francisco	robertsd@usfca.edu	2	08/2010
Timothy Pearson West Virginia University	timothy.pearson@mail.wvu.edu	2	08/2010

EC Liaison:

P. Jane Saly
University of St Thomas
pjsaly@stthomas.ed

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