CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2010 Northeast Region Meeting October 14 – 16, 2010 Hilton Burlington Hotel Burlington, Vermont

The 2010 AAA Northeast Regional Meeting will be held at the Hilton Burlington Hotel in Burlington, Vermont, October 14 - 16, 2010. The hotel overlooks beautiful Lake Champlain, and while weather is always difficult to predict, the fall foliage should still be lovely this time of year. The hotel is within easy walking distance of the Church Street pedestrian mall, the Echo Science Center, the Flynn Theater, and the University of Vermont campus. By car or van, it is 5-10 minutes from the Burlington airport, and an hour or less from Stowe Mountain and Smugglers Notch recreation areas.

Accounting educators, students and professionals are invited to submit completed manuscripts and ideas for panels or workshops for presentation at the meeting. Papers may encompass any topical area of accounting and may be theoretical or practice-oriented. Accounting education papers and cases are strongly encouraged for submission. All papers submitted will be sent out for blind review. The submission deadline is July 15. This is necessarily a strict deadline as only three months remain before the meeting.

Topic areas may include:

The program will be structured around the best submissions.

To submit a paper:

• Prepare two separate documents, one for your paper, one for your abstract.
• Do not include any author name(s) or contact information in either document.
• Both documents should be double-spaced, in 12-point font, with 1" margins.
• Log into the Northeast Submission and Peer Review System (SPRS).
  • After logging in, click “Create Program Submission”, and follow the instructions within the submission form.

Awards

There are Conference awards for Best Manuscript and Best Doctoral Student Paper. If you are interested in having your paper considered for the Best Doctoral Student Paper Award, you must indicate that you are a Doctoral Student under "Special Submission Considerations" on the Detailed Information tab of the SPRS submission form

Effective Learning Strategies Poster Session

Do you have a favorite teaching tip, best practice, or innovation? If so, please follow the instructions below to submit your Effective Learning Strategies (ELS) Poster idea. Submissions will be peer-reviewed within two weeks of submission for quick acceptance/rejection turnaround so there will be time for participants to register for the meeting. Have questions about the ELS Poster Session? If so, please contact Deirdre Harris at deirdre@aaahq.org or 941-556-4119.

To submit proposals for Effective Learning Strategies poster presentations:

Prepare a document with the following information:

• Detailed Discription: In 200 words or less, describe the idea, resource, teaching strategy, or education innovation that supports learning in accounting including the key issues and concepts that will be addressed. Include learning outcomes – What will participants learn from your poster presentation? (Limit: approximately 200 words – 1250 characters)
• Promotional Discription: In 40 words or less, "sell" your poster presentation to a prospective attendee. What is the essence of the ELS Poster Session? What will the audience learn? This is your chance to market your best practice, so try to make the description appealing, but not misleading. (Limit: approximately 40 words – 350 characters)
• Do not include any submitter name(s) or contact information in the document.
• Log into the Northeast Submission and Peer Review System (SPRS). After logging in, click “Create Program Submission”, and follow the instructions within the submission form.

To submit proposals for Panels, Special Concurrent Sessions, and CPE sessions:

• Prepare a document with your proposal.
• Do not include any submitter name(s) or contact information in the document.
• Log into the Northeast Submission and Peer Review System (SPRS). After logging in, click “Create Program Submission”, and follow the instructions within the submission form.

Papers submitted to a regional meeting also may have been submitted to the American Accounting Association National meeting or Mid-year sectional meetings, but should not have been published elsewhere before the Northeast Regional meeting.

Call for Volunteers

If you are interested in reviewing manuscripts, or being a moderator or discussant, please follow these steps:

• Go to the Northeast Submission and Peer Review System (SPRS)
• An account has been created for you, but if you have not logged into the SPRS previously, you will need to create your own password. Click “Unknown/Forgotten Password” at the bottom of the Northeast SPRS Welcome Page to have a temporary password emailed to you, giving you access to your account.
• Once you are logged into your account, click “Modify Profile/Password” and change the password to your personal choice.
• Scroll down the profile page until you see the drop down lists. In the drop down list for “Conference Role(s) Interested In,” select those roles in which you would like to play a part for the Northeast Regional Meeting. The Northeast Meeting coordinators will search for you based upon your selections in this drop down list.
• So that the coordinators can assign you to submissions that best fit your expertise, make selections for as many of the other drop down lists as you feel are applicable. Making selections for “Research Area” and “Teaching Area” would be especially helpful.

For more information about the 2010 Northeast Program please contact program co-chairs:

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