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
• Ethics Research Symposium Co-Chairs & Ethics Workshop Chair
• 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
• 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
   

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
  • Professional Staff Liaisons of the Program Events are responsible for identifying the incoming Chair/Co-Chairs
• Develops and approves Call for Submission
• Invites speakers for three morning plenaries

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

Program Events

Education Chair(s)

• Co-Chair: Jeffrey Lark, The University of Georgia, jlark@uga.edu
• Co-Chair: Cathy Scott, University of North Texas-Dallas, cathy.scott@untdallas.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 At-Large Education Panels
• Review submissions to Effective Learning Strategies, Emerging and Innovative Research sessions, and identify proposals for presentation
• Professional Staff Liaison: Susan Crosson, susan.crosson@aaahq.org

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

• Co-Chair: Gail Hoover King, Washburn University, ghkingaaa@gmail.com 
• Co-Chair: Robyn C. Barrett, Saint Louis Community College, rbarrett@stlcc.edu 
• Review the Call for Proposals, presentation emails and related documents for the upcoming year and make 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

Ethics Research Symposium Co-Chairs

• Ethics Research Symposium Co-Chair: Cassandra Rohland, University of Massachusetts Lowell, cassandra_rohland@uml.edu 
• Ethics Research Symposium Co-Chair:  Michael Ruff, Northeastern University, michaelfruff@gmail.com 
• Review the Call for Papers for the upcoming year and make 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 Co-Chairs

• Co-Chair: Wayne Landsman, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, wayne_landsman@unc.edu
• Co-Chair: Recep Pekdemir, Istanbul University, pekdemir@istanbul.edu.tr
• Review the Call for Papers for the upcoming year and make any changes necessary
• Review submissions and identify proposals acceptable for presentation
• Divide the submissions into 2 tracks and identify which 2 faculty members will be responsible for each track
• Reach out to faculty to fill any of the open faculty spots for the workshop
• Work with AAA Professional Staff and answer any questions throughout the process
• Professional Staff Liaison: Kelli Rickrode, kelli.rickrode@aaahq.org