2009–2010 AAA COMMITTEES

Deloitte Wildman Award Committee

Charge:
To administer the John R. Wildman Medal award program in accordance with the terms of the grant from the Deloitte Foundation. Specifically:

1. The financial award and medal is awarded to the author or authors that are determined to have made or be likely to make the most significant contribution to the advancement of the public practice of accountancy including audit, tax and management services. 
2. Provide a progress report to the AAA President, Executive Committee liaison and the Executive Director in time to be included with the agenda for each Executive Committee meeting.

Membership
The Deloitte Wildman Award Committee is made up of five members plus a chair appointed by the AAA President.  One member of this committee will be nominated by the Deloitte Foundation if it so elects.

Meetings
The committee meets as needed by phone, email or in person. 

Responsibilities:

• The AAA Awards Coordinator (Arlene Oliver) will ensure the call for submission page is updated by the beginning of September and will notify the committee chair of the update.
• During the first part of October the AAA Awards Coordinator will assist with an email announcement of the Deloitte Wildman Award to the Chair of Accounting Departments. 
• The AAA Awards Coordinator will arrange for the call for submissions announcement to be included:
  • In the Fall and Winter edition of the Accounting Education News
  • On the AAA website, (alternating each award submission announcement on the front page of the website until submission deadline)
  • Multi-topic mass emails, (alternating each award announcement to be included in each multi-topic email until submission deadline)
• The committee will select award recipients based on award criteria.
• The submission deadline is January 31st and the Chair will notify the AAA Awards Coordinator of the winner at awards@aaahq.org by April 15th.  The AAA Awards Coordinator will notify the AAA President, Executive Committee Liaison and the Executive Director of the winner.
• The AAA President will send a congratulatory email/letter to the winner, copying the Executive Director and Committee Chair. 
• The AAA Awards Coordinator will notify the contact person (Janet Butchko) at Deloitte with the information about the winner/s.  Deloitte is responsible for ordering the medal and financial award and arranging for it to be brought/sent to the Annual Meeting for presentation
• The Director of Communications will notify the Committee Chair, Deloitte representative and awardee(s) with annual meeting onsite presentation instructions. 
• The Chair will write a short article (200 words or less) to be included in the Fall Accounting Education News.  This article should be sent to awards@aaahq.org no later than June 1st. 
• The Committee Chair will write a thank you note to the Deloitte representative for their support of the award.
• The Chair prepares and sends a progress report twice every term-year, with deadlines of October 23rd 2009 and February 26th 2010, to the Executive Committee Liaison, AAA President, and Executive Director regarding accomplishments or modifications.

Chair:

Jeff Wilks
Brigham Young University
jeff_wilks@byu.edu

Members:

EC Liaison:

Gregory Waymire
Emory University
Gregory_Waymire@bus.emory.edu

 

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