Committee Spotlight
The Auditing Section of the AAA is successful because of the many members who agree to serve on one or more of the Section’s committees. This column profiles the activities of the Section’s Education Committee.
The Charge of the Committee includes the following:
- Foster the development of teaching materials and methods for the improvement of auditing education.
- Foster the integration of auditing research findings into auditing teaching materials and curricula.
- Foster research on the effectiveness and efficiency of alternative approaches to auditing education.
- Complete education-related projects assigned by the Section President and/or Executive Committee.
- Interact with the American Accounting Association's Accounting Education Advisory Committee, and with the Auditing Section's CPE Committee, as appropriate to carrying out the activities in items 1-4.
- Communicate the progress and results of Committee activities to Auditing Section members in appropriate ways, including but not limited to the presentation of a brief report at the Section's annual business meeting.
The 2008-2009 Committee Members include:
Greg Jenkins (Chair), Virginia Tech
Paul Polinski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jay Rich, Illinois State University
Richard Riley, West Virginia University
Pamela Roush, University of Central Florida
Ray Whittington, DePaul University
Targeted Activities of the Committee
The primary goals of the Committee are to disseminate educational resources and opportunities to our section’s members. To accomplish these goals, during the last year the Committee focused on a number of activities such as the following:
- The Committee organized the inaugural “Audit Educator’s Bootcamp” held June 15-17, 2009, in Chicago. The highly interactive Bootcamp provided audit educators with an overview of current practice issues and contemporary audit methodologies of a number of large auditing firms. Doug Prawitt (Brigham Young University) and Frank Buckless (North Carolina State University) instructed the three day program along with the assistance of audit professionals from Grant Thornton, KPMG, and PWC. Participants were able to engage in some hands-on training thanks to the availability of materials from participating accounting firms.
- The Committee provided instructional resources to section members in the Spring and Fall newsletters. Resources from the current and prior years are available on the Section’s website at http://aaahq.org/audit/education.htm.
- The Committee joined with the CPE committee to plan and deliver the Section’s first webinar during the spring of 2009. Our inaugural speaker was Mark Beasley, the AAA representative to COSO, who spoke on COSO’s Project on Monitoring Internal Controls. A large number of our Section’s members participated in this event and the Section will continue this activity in the future. Our second speaker was Joe Carcello, a member of the PCAOB’s Standing Advisory Group. Joe discussed the PCAOB’s recent and possible future activities.
- The Committee organized a panel discussion at the 2009 Midyear Meeting entitled “International Standards on Auditing: Preparing the Future Members of the Profession.” The panel included Susan Jones from Grant Thornton, Bill Kinney from the University of Texas, Doug Prawitt from Brigham Young University and Greg Scates from the PCAOB.
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