Charge

• While a myriad of events and activities occur during the meeting, important communications of the message comes from the plenary and lunch speakers and from broadly focused At-Large Panel sessions.
• Crafting an engaging, interesting, challenging, and fascinating story for the Annual Meeting is the opportunity of the Annual Meeting Committee.

Members

• Board of Directors Team
• Management Team
• Executive Director (Tracey Sutherland)
• Senior Director, Meetings and Programs (Erlinda Jones)
• Education Chair/s
• Section-Sponsored Concurrent Sessions Team
• Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting (CTLA) Co-Chairs
• Professionalism & Ethics Research in Accounting Symposium Co-Chairs
• Faculty-Student Collaborations in Accounting (FASTCA) Chair
• Global Emerging Scholars Research Workshop Faculty Chair

Member Roles

Management Team

• President
  • Chooses President Scholar(s)
  • As Chair of Management Team, leads discussion of strategy for Annual Meeting Program
• Works with the President to achieve the vision for that year’s meeting
• Approves budget for all Program Events
•  Identifies speakers for three morning plenaries
  • Speakers may include a range of session types including: individual keynotes, “Ted-talk” style presentations, interview sessions, etc.
• Identifies a Tuesday lunch speaker – keeping in mind the special characteristics of lunch talks
• Plans up to three follow-up Panel sessions to continue or amplify topics begun in the three morning plenaries, as appropriate
• Plans additional At-Large panel topics to be discussed during Council at their Fall meeting (to result in approximately 10 panels)
• Identifies Chair of all Program Events

Executive Director

• Coordinates overall meeting
• Orients/advises/informs committee members and planning process

AAA Senior Director, Meetings and Programs

• Professional Staff member responsible for overall operational implementation of the Annual Meeting
• Coordinator of all Professional Staff involvement
• Develops and approves Call for Submission
• Invites speakers for three morning plenaries

• Review submissions for Section-sponsored panels and papers and identifies proposals for presentation
• Work with the Member Event Services Team to communicate deadlines and reminders to volunteers and presenters
• Professional Staff Liaison: Suzanne Mullinnix

Program Events

Education Chair(s)

• Co-Chair: Cassy Budd, Brigham Young University, cassybudd@byu.edu 
• Co-Chair: Karen Osterheld, Bentley University, kosterheld@bentley.edu
• Review submissions for Pre-Conference Workshops and identify proposals acceptable for presentation
• Identify and organize up to 7 At-Large Education Panels
• Review submissions to Effective Learning Strategies, Emerging and Innovative Research sessions, and identify proposals for presentation

Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting (CTLA) Co-Chairs

• Co-Chair: Cindy Bolt Lee, The Citadel, cynthia.bolt@citadel.edu
• Co-Chair: Billie Cunningham, University of Missouri-Columbia, cunningham@missouri.edu 
• Review the Call for Proposals, Presentation emails and related documents for the upcoming year and makes any changes necessary
• Identify and recommend keynote and lunch speakers
• Assign reviewers to submissions
• Review reviewer comments to identify proposals for presentation
• Create a balanced program from the list of accepted proposals
• Identify teaching sessions held at the annual meeting for the CTLA Insider’s Guide
• Professional Staff Liaison: Stephanie Glaser, stephanie@aaahq.org

Professionalism & Ethics Research in Accounting Symposium Co-Chairs

• Co-Chair: Annie McGowan, Texas A&M University, AMcGowan@mays.tamu.edu
• Co-Chair: Brian P. Shapiro, University of St Thomas – Minneapolis,  bpshapiro@stthomas.edu
• Review the Call for Papers for the upcoming year and makes any changes necessary
• Identify and confirm keynote speaker
• Contact Journal Editors to request if they will allow the use of their reviewers and consider accepted papers as submissions to their journals
• Assign reviewers to submissions
• Review reviewer comments to identify papers for presentation
• Create a balanced program from the list of accepted proposals
• Professional Staff Liaison: Stephanie Glaser, stephanie@aaahq.org

Faculty-Student Collaborations in Accounting (FASTCA) Chair

• Chair: Marsha Huber, Youngstown State University, hubercpa@hotmail.com
• Reviews the Call for Papers for the upcoming year and makes any changes necessary
• Determines and confirms Program Committee
• Assigns reviewers to submissions
• Reviews reviewer comments to identify papers for presentation
• Creates a balanced program from the list of accepted proposals
• Professional Staff Liaison: Jean Thompson, jean.thompson@AAAHQ.ORG
  
  

Global Emerging Scholars Research Workshop Faculty Chair

• Co-Chair: Wayne Landsman, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, wayne_landsman@unc.edu
• Co-Chair: Recep Pekdemir, Istanbul University, pekdemir@istanbul.edu.tr
• Reviews the Call for Papers for the upcoming year and makes any changes he sees necessary
• Review submissions for Global Emerging Scholars Research Workshop and identifies up to 16 proposals acceptable for presentation
• Divides the 16 submissions into 2 tracks and identifies which 2 faculty members will be for each track
• Reaches out to faculty to fill any of the 4 open faculty spots for the workshop
• Works with AAA Professional staff and answers any questions throughout the process
• Professional Staff Liaison: Kelli Gouwens, kelli.gouwens@aaahq.org