CALL FOR PAPERS

Western Region
of the American Accounting Association
2005 Annual Meeting
April 28–30, 2005
Downtown Capitol Plaza Holiday Inn
Sacramento, California


Theme: The Role of Accounting Education in Preventing, Detecting, and Prosecuting Fraud

Accounting educators, students, and professionals are invited to submit completed manuscripts, and ideas for panels or workshops, for presentation at the AAA's 2005 Annual Western Region Meeting. The 40th annual meeting will be held in Sacramento, California. Although regional meetings tend to focus on teaching and curriculum issues, encouragement is given to professionals and members of AAA sections that have separate mid-year meetings to also submit papers and participate in this conference. We would like to provide a broad-based conference and have a large number of academics and professionals in attendance. CPE credit will be available. Awards for Best Research Paper and Best Education Paper are a plaque and $500. Submissions must be received by the deadline to be eligible for these awards.

The deadline for paper submissions, panel proposals, and workshop proposals has been extended to January 17, 2005. Details and updates will be made available periodically on the Region's Internet home page (http://aaahq.org/western/western.htm).

The American Accounting Association (AAA) Western Region is working with Social Science Research Network (SSRN) to provide an online conference submission and review system. The online submission system has many benefits and requires many choices. Accordingly, you are encouraged to print the Guidelines for Submission (http://aaahq.org/calls/SSRNWesternGuidelines.pdf) and refer to them as you proceed through the system. Individuals interested in submitting papers can do so electronically at http://hq.ssrn.com/conf/AAA-WR-2005.html.

To complete a submission, you will need the following information:

  • Abstract
  • Two versions of the paper in PDF format, one version that includes author information ("named" file) and one version that does NOT include author information ("blind" file)
  • Names, contact information (email and postal addresses, voice and fax numbers), and affiliations for all authors not already in the SSRN database
  • Name of contact author

COPYRIGHT AND DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS
During the submission process, you will be asked whether you own the copyright for the paper and whether you grant SSRN the non-exclusive right to distribute the abstract of the paper. You MUST grant this right to SSRN in order to complete your submission. Answering "Yes" to this question allows SSRN to make the paper available to reviewers and conference coordinators. It will NOT make the paper or abstract available to the entire SSRN community.

SUBMITTING AUTHOR MUST CHANGE STATUS
If the person submitting the paper (the "submitter") is also an author of the paper, the submitter must change his/her status to "author" during the submission process.

FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
For technical assistance with the submission process, contact SSRN at 877-SSRNHelp (877.777.6435) or usersupport@ssrn.com

Papers will be blind refereed. Authors of accepted papers will have the choice of publishing either the paper or an abstract in the meeting proceedings (CD-ROM). At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the meeting and present the paper. For consistency and as an aid to reviewers, papers should use The Accounting Review style. Papers should be single-sided and double-spaced, using a 12-point type, and have 1" margins all around. Pages should be numbered. Papers should have a cover page indicating the name, title, affiliation, complete postal address, e-mail address, telephone number and fax number of the author(s). Except for the title, none of this information should appear anywhere else in the paper. The cover page should also include at the bottom an indication of which section of the AAA best matches the topic of the paper (e.g., ABO, Auditing, Financial Reporting, or Teaching & Curriculum). Sections are listed at the AAA's web site (http://aaahq.org/srg.cfm).

Those interested in conducting workshops or giving panel presentations should submit their proposals to the Region's President, Dr. John Corless, by December 1, 2004. CPE workshops will be held in half-day or full-day sessions on Thursday. Paper and panel presentations will take place in 90-minute concurrent sessions all day Friday, and until noon on Saturday.

Program Chair
Dr. Peter J. Frischmann
College of Business
Idaho State University
Campus Box 8020
Pocatello, Idaho 83209-8020
E-Mail: frispete@isu.edu
Phone: (208) 282-3501
Fax: (208) 282-4367
President
Dr. John C. Corless
Department of Accountancy
College of Business Administration
California State University
6000 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95819-6088
E-mail: corlessj@csus.edu
Phone: (916) 278-7124
Fax: (916) 278-6489

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