Call for Submissions

Thirteenth Annual Midyear Auditing Section Conference

The Thirteenth Annual Midyear Auditing Section Conference will be held January 11–13, 2007 at the historic Francis Marion Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina (www.francismarioncharleston.com).

CPE sessions will be held on the afternoon of January 11. 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 (including instructional cases), and special session proposals. In addition, the section will rely on your help in planning and conducting the conference and in providing suggestions for session topics, panels, and/or workshops. Please consider volunteering to participate as a reviewer, discussant, and/or moderator by contacting either of the co-chairs, Professors Karla Johnstone and Terry Neal.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Research papers should follow the style and submission guidelines of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, including the requirement to submit separate electronic files containing the cover page and the paper itself¹. Instructional cases should be in a format similar to that used in Issues in Accounting Education. Submissions are not eligible for consideration if they: 1) have been published or accepted for publication, 2) were presented at the 2006 AAA Annual Meeting, or 3) were presented at more than one AAA regional meeting or other academic conference. 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 2007 Midyear Auditing Section Conference may also be submitted for presentation at the AAA Annual Meeting scheduled for August 2007.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

Submission should be made by e-mail only to either:

Submissions must be received by September 1, 2006, to be considered for the program. Early submission is highly encouraged. Any questions should be addressed to Karla Johnstone or Terry Neal via the above email.

¹Also, please be sure to remove all identification of the authors, including changing the "Properties" menu to "anonymous".

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