Auditing Section Awards

• Distinguished Service in Auditing
  This award recognizes outstanding and sustained service to the profession or the Auditing Section over a 20-25 year period that have a lasting and significant impact on the field of auditing, as evidenced by service to the auditing profession, the Section, or by significant contributions in scholarship.

• Outstanding Auditing Educator
  This award recognizes outstanding contributions to audit education in form of exemplary contributions in research or teaching over a sustained period of time (10 to 15 years).

• Outstanding Auditing Dissertation
  This award recognizes the student and the supervising faculty member for the dissertation judged to make the most outstanding contribution to auditing knowledge among those dissertations nominated for consideration.

• Notable Contributions To The Auditing Literature
  This award recognizes a published work of exceptional merit that has made, or has the potential to make, a direct contribution to auditing or assurance research, education, and practice. The work may be an article, chapter, book, or monograph.

• The Innovation in Auditing and Assurance Education Award
  This award is meant to encourage innovation and improvement in auditing and assurance education. The award recognizes a significant activity, concept, or materials. The criteria used to judge the submissions include, but are not necessarily limited to: (1) innovation, (2) educational benefits, and (3) adaptability by other educational institutions or to other situations.

• Best PHD Student Paper Submitted to the Auditing Midyear Conference
  Criteria:

  • The paper can be single-authored, or co-authored. If the paper is co-authored, the PhD student must be the presenting author.
  • The PhD student-author must be a PhD student as of the deadline for submitting the paper to the Midyear Conference.
  • The PhD student may be employed at an institution other than the PhD granting institution.
  • The paper may be related to the dissertation, but does not have to be related to the dissertation.
  • Submissions for this award do not affect the eligibility of the student to also apply for the Outstanding Dissertation Award. NOTE: Beginning with the 2009 Auditing Midyear Conference, the winner of the Outstanding Dissertation Award will receive a $2,500 monetary award.

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* The Outstanding Dissertation Chair Award was first presented in 1995-96 in conjunction with the Outstanding Auditing Dissertation Award.

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Notable Contributions to the Auditing Literature Award

First awarded 1999-2000

1999-2000 (MYM 2000)

Blackwell, David W. (Coopers & Lybrand), Thomas R. Noland (University of Houston), and Drew B. Winters (University of Central Florida). 1998. “The value of auditor assurance: Evidence from loan pricing, Journal of Accounting Research, vol. 36, no. 1 (Spring) 57-70.

2000-2001 (MYM 2001)

Koonce, Lisa (University of Texas at Austin) and D. Eric Hirst (University of Texas at Austin). 1996. “Audit analytical procedures: A field investigation,” Contemporary Accounting Research, vol. 13, no. 2 (Fall) 457-487.

2001-2002 (MYM 2002)

Beasley, Mark S. (North Carolina State University). 1996. "An empirical analysis of the relation between the board of director composition and financial statement fraud," vol. 71, no. 4, (October) 443-465.

2002-2003 (MYM 2003)

Tim Bell (KPMG) and Arnie Wright (Boston College), Editors, 1996. "Auditing Practice, Research, and Education: A Productive Collaboration."

2003-2004 (MYM 2004)

Michael Gibbins (University of Alberta) and James D. Newton, "An Exploration Of Complex Accountability In Public Accounting", The Journal of Accounting Research. Autumn 1994: 165-186.

2004-2005 (MYM 2005)

Kathryn Kadous (Emory University), "The Effects of Audit Quality and Consequence Severity on Juror Evaluations of Auditor Responsibility for Plaintiff Losses", The Accounting Review, 75(3): 327-341.

2005-2006 (MYM 2006)

Connie Becker (University of Washington), Mark DeFond (University of Southern California), Jim Jiambalvo (University of Washington), and K. R. Subramanyam (University of Southern California), "The Effects of Audit Quality on Earnings Management", Contemporary Accounting Research, 15(1): 1-24.

2006-2007 (MYM 2007)

Jere Francis (University of Missouri at Columbia), Ed Maydew (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and Charlie Sparks (University of Alaska at Fairbanks), "The Role of Big 6 Auditors in the Credible Reporting of Accruals", Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Fall, 1999 p. 17-34.

2007-2008 (MYM 2008)

Jay S. Rich (University of Illinois at Urbana), Ira Solomon (University of Illinois at Urbana), and Ken T. Trotman (University of New South Wales). 1997. "The Audit Review Process: A Characterization from the Persuasion Perspective," Accounting, Organizations, and Society, vol. 22, no. 5, 481-506.

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Innovation in Auditing and Assurance Education Award

First awarded 2002-2003

2002-2003 (MYM 2003)

Ulric J. Gelinas, Jr., Elliott S. Levy and Jay C. Thibodeau (all Bentley College), for the Innovative Case Entitled: "Norwood Office Supplies, Inc." Issues in Accounting Education, November 2001.

2003-2004 (MYM 2004)

Christine E. Earley (Bently College) for Her Innovative Integration of Professional Ethics and Ethical Reasoning Skills into an Assurance Services Course

2004-2005 (MYM 2005)

Timothy B. Bell (KPMG, LLP) and Ira Solomon (University of Illinois at Urbana) for the Innovative Development of Cases In Strategic-Systems Auditing

2005-2006 (MYM 2006)

Cindy Durtschi (Utah State University) for Her Innovative Development of "The Tallahassee Bean Counters: A Problem-Based Learning Case in Forensic Auditing"

2006-2007 (MYM 2007)

Eric E. Spires (The Ohio State University) for His Innovative Development of Case Materials for His Financial Fraud Detection Course

2007-2008 (MYM 2008)

Jeffrey Cohen (Boston College), Arnold Wright (Northeastern University), and Ganesh Krishnamoorthy (Northeastern University). 2005. "Dynamic Data: Corporate Governance and Auditors' Evaluation of Accounting Estimates," Issues in Accounting Education, vol.20, no.1, 119-129.

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