AAA SERVICES AND MEMBER BENEFITS SURVEY

QUESTION 1: Services and Benefits.

Please provide your opinion on each of the following American Accounting Association services and benefits for three dimensions: (a) your awareness or familiarity with the service, (b) your assessment of the importance and usefulness of these services for you, and (c) your feelings on the association's performance quality of the service.

For each service or benefit item, begin with Awareness and please check one of the three boxes presented. If you check the Not Aware box for a specific service or benefit, you do not need to then evaluate the importance and performance of that specific service. If you check Somewhat Aware or Fully Aware of the specific service or benefit, please provide, using any value in the range of 0-100 (e.g., 20, 75, etc), your opinions on the importance of the specific service to you, and the AAA's performance of the service.

	Familiarity			Importance		Performance
	None	Some	Extensive	NoValue	HighValue	Poor	Good
				0	100	0	100
I.ACCOUNTING RESEARCH
Publications				________		________
The Accounting Review				________		________
Accounting Hoirzons				________		________
Issues in Accounting Education				________		________
Section Journals				________		________
Behavioral Research in Accounting				________		________
Journal of the American Taxation Association				________		________
Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory				________		________
The Journal of Information Systems				________		________
The Journal of Management Accounting Research				________		________
Research Monographs				________		________
AAA Research Studies				________		________
AAA Education Studies				________		________
Section Research Monographs				________		________
Research Conferences				________		________
AAA Doctoral Consortium				________		________
AAA International Research Conferences				________		________
Section Research Conferences				________		________
Research Awards				________		________
AAA Research Awards				________		________
Section Research Awards				________		________

Do you have any suggestions for changes in the association's accounting research activities?_________________________________________________________

	Familiarity			Importance		Performance
	None	Some	Extensive	NoValue	HighValue	Poor	Good
				0	100	0	100
II.ACCOUNTING INSTRUCTION
Education Conferences				________		________
New Faculty Consortium				________		________
Annual Meeting CPE Seminars				________		________
Regional Meeting CPE Seminars				________		________
Section Education Conferences				________		________
Education Awards				________		________
Outstanding Accounting Educator				________		________
Innovation in Accounting Education				________		________
Section Education Awards				________		________
Education Committees				________		________
AAA Committees				________		________
Section Committees				________		________

Do you have any suggestions for changes in the association's accounting instruction activities?___________________________________________________________

	Familiarity			Importance		Performance
	None	Some	Extensive	NoValue	HighValue	Poor	Good
				0	100	0	100
III.ACCOUNTING PRACTICE
Practice Conferences				________		________
Trueblood Seminars				________		________
Financial Reporting Comferences				________		________
Corporate Accounting Policy Seminar				________		________
Practice Committees				________		________
Financial Accounting Standards				________		________
Litigation Advisory				________		________
Professional Examinations				________		________
Professional Practice Issues				________		________
Professionalism and Ethics				________		________
Securities and Exchange Commission Liaison				________		________
Section Practice Committees				________		________
Practice Awards				________		________
Deloitte & Touche Wildman Medal				________		________
Outstanding Service Award				________		________

Do you have any suggestions for changes in the association's accounting practice activities?___________________________________________________________

	Familiarity			Importance		Performance
	None	Some	Extensive	NoValue	HighValue	Poor	Good
				0	100	0	100
IV.ASSOCIATION MANAGEMENT
Communications				________		________
Accounting Education News				________		________
General Communications				________		________
Section Newsletters				________		________
Accounting, Behavior and Organizations				________		________
Administrators Program Announcements				________		________
American Tax Association				________		________
Artificial Intelligence/Expert Systems				________		________
Auditing				________		________
Financial Accounting and Reporting				________		________
Gender Issues in Accounting				________		________
Government and Nonprofit				________		________
Information Systems/MAS				________		________
International Accounting				________		________
Management Accounting				________		________
Public Interest				________		________
Teaching and Curriculum				________		________
Two-Year College				________		________
Awards and Scholarships				________		________
Carter Scholarship Program				________		________
Doctoral Fellowship Program				________		________
Professional Outreach Activities				________		________
International Faculty Exchange Program				________		________
Minority Faculty Development Committee				________		________
Relations with Two-Year Committee				________		________

The AAA provides group discount programs for car rentals, various insurance coverages, and credit cards. Please provide your opinions on these group discount programs:

	Familiarity			Importance		Performance
	None	Some	Extensive	NoValue	HighValue	Poor	Good
				0	100	0	100
Group Discount Programs				________		________

Please offer your views on two dimensions of the AAAs meetings and conferences arrangements: logistical arrangements and program content. The Association manages logistics for varied member meetings (i.e., selecting locations, sending Announcements, handling Registration, coordinating CPE sessions, etc.). Program content includes plenary and concurrent sessions, academic programs to emphasize research, instruction, and general informational issues, networking opportunities, etc. Because many factors change overtime, however please consider only meetings in the last three years. If you feel strongly about certain issues, please elaborate in the space below this section.

	Familiarity			Importance		Performance
	None	Some	Extensive	NoValue	HighValue	Poor	Good
				0	100	0	100
Annual Meeting Arrangements				________		________
Logistics				________		________
Program Content				________		________
Regional Meeting Arrangements				________		________
Logistics				________		________
Program Content				________		________
AAA Conferences Arrangements				________		________
Logistics				________		________
Program Content				________		________
Section Conferences Arrangements				________		________
Logistics				________		________
Program Content				________		________

Do you have any suggestions for changes in these associations meetings and conferences activities?______________________________________________

Internet Computer Network: Do you currently have local access to the Internet? .........Yes ___ No ___

Personal Contacts with the AAAs Headquarters Offices: Have you contacted the AAAs Headquarters Offices by mail, telephone, or by a visit, within the last three years? .........Yes ___ No ___

If yes, did the AAAs staff personnel respond effectively to your requests for assistance? ........Yes ___ No ___

If you visited the office, did you consider the available facilities to be generally effective? ........Yes ___ No ___

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