Meeting Announcement and Call for Papers

Tenth Annual Midyear Auditing Section Conference

The Tenth Annual Midyear Auditing Section Conference will be held in Clearwater, Florida (Tampa/St. Petersburg area) on January 15–17, 2004. CPE sessions will be held on the afternoon of January 15. The remainder of the conference will consist of keynote, plenary, and concurrent sessions dealing with a wide variety of contemporary topics related to audit, attestation, and assurance practices, education, and research. You are encouraged to contribute to the program through submissions of auditing/attestation/assurance research and education papers, teaching cases, and special session proposals.

The conference will be held at the Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort in Clearwater Beach Florida, located 20 miles from the Tampa International Airport. Located on an island and overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, the Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort sits on ten acres along a beautiful, private white sandy beach. Recreational facilities include beach cabanas, two beachside swimming pools, volleyball, wave runners, parasailing, and more. A short walk from the hotel is an entertainment pier. The island has 30 or more restaurants as well as many shops and attractions. Activities such as snorkeling, deep sea fishing, or sailing charters are also available. The Florida Aquarium, Salvador Dali Museum, and Busch Gardens are all within a few minutes’ drive. For children, there is the special recreation program, “Fun Factory,” custom-designed to entertain and educate.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES and DEADLINE
Email submissions (auditing research and education papers, teaching cases, and special session proposals) to 2004Audit@byu.edu as Word attachments. Research papers should follow the style guidelines of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory. To preserve anonymity, email the cover page and the remainder of the manuscript as separate files. For field surveys or experiments, also email the research instrument, removing the identities of the authors.

Submissions of teaching cases and research papers are not eligible for consideration if they: (1) have been published or accepted for publication, (2) were presented at the 2003 AAA Annual Meeting, or (3) were presented at more than one AAA regional meeting. Papers presented at the Research Forum of the AAA Annual Meeting are eligible for consideration. It should be noted that papers accepted for presentation at the 2004 Midyear Auditing Section Conference may also be submitted for presentation at the AAA Annual Meeting scheduled for August 2004.

Submissions must be received by September 1, 2003 to be considered for the program. Early submission is highly encouraged. Any questions should be addressed to the meeting co-chairs, Steve Glover and Doug Prawitt at the email address listed above.

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