2008–2009 AAA COMMITTEES

Charge:

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

Monitor the accounting research activities of other accounting associations (e.g. AICPA, FEI, IIA, and IMA) and coordinate with those organizations, as appropriate.
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.
Suggest ways to encourage research in accounting, including research related to discovery, integration, application and teaching.
Develop materials for AAA webpage to inform and attract students to PHD programs in accounting.
Provide effective research liaison with regions and sections.
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.
Evaluate the current charge of this committee. If appropriate, recommend changes to the Executive Committee.
Provide a progress report to the Executive Committee liaison in time to be included 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:

Gregory Waymire
Emory University
Gregory_Waymire@bus.emory.edu

Members:

Name Affiliation	Email	Term Length	Term Expires
Theodore Mock University of Southern California	tmock@marshall.usc.edu	1	08/2009
Uma Velury University of Delaware	uvelury@udel.edu	1	08/2009
Brad Tuttle University of South Carolina	tuttle@sc.edu	1	08/2009
Andrea Drake Louisiana Tech University	adrake@latech.edu	1	08/2009
Jeffrey Cohen Boston College	jeffrey.cohen.1@bc.edu	1	08/2009
Judy Rayburn University of Minnesota	jrayburn@umn.edu	1	08/2009

EC Liaison:

Gregory Waymire
Emory University
Gregory_Waymire@bus.emory.edu