Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award

Nominations Deadline: January 31 at 11:59 pm Eastern Time
 

History and Previous Award Recipients
 

Thank you to the Deloitte Foundation for generously supporting this award!

The Deloitte Foundation Wildman Award Committee is currently accepting nominations for the 2024 Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award.

The following rules govern the award:

1. Subject to the further conditions as to eligibility set out in the following paragraphs, the medal and the related financial award is awarded annually at the American Accounting Association’s Annual Meeting to the author(s) of the article, monograph, book or other work, reflecting the results of their research or the application of the research of others, published or posted as an online early publication during the five calendar years preceding the year of the award (2024) which is judged to have made or will be likely to make the most significant contribution to the advancement of the practice of public accountancy (including audit, tax and management services.) Note that in some cases a paper may be accepted for publication in a given calendar year and then may actually appear in a volume that carries an earlier calendar year as a publication date. In such cases, the year that the particular issue was actually published should be the date used to determine eligibility.
2. A financial award of $5,000 accompanies the medal. In the event of multiple award recipients, each recipient would receive $2,500 (up to three recipients; $7,500 maximum per year).
3. Selection of the recipient(s) will be made by a selection Committee to be appointed each year by the Council Committee on Awards Committees. One member of this Committee will be nominated by the Deloitte Foundation, if it so elects.
4. The Committee may, at its discretion, decide that in any particular year no award will be made.
5. The Deloitte Foundation will periodically decide whether to extend this program.
6. It is required that the recipient(s) be a member of the AAA on February 1 of the year in which the published work is being considered. In the case of co-authored work, at least one author must meet the AAA membership test. However, the monetary award and gold medal(s) will go only to the author(s) who do meet the membership test.
7. While the Deloitte Foundation is a proud sponsor of the Wildman Medal Award, the Deloitte Foundation or Deloitte & Touche LLP does not endorse individual recipients or the associated articles, monographs, books, or other works.

• Council members shall be asked in writing to suggest nominees for the Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award to the Deloitte Foundation Wildman Award Committee.
• The Screening Committee for the Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award shall be encouraged to submit candidates for the Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award to the Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award Committee.

Addendum

• At its meeting in August 2015, the AAA Board of Directors accepted the 2014-15 Research Committee’s proposal to add the following new criterion to the Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award: “Although the award generally recognizes a single publication, two or more related publications (co)authored by the same nominee(s) may be considered for joint nomination if they stem from the same program of study that addresses a well-defined research objective. In this case, each related publication must comply with all other eligibility requirements. Nominations of multiple related publications should explain the single program of study that justifies considering the nominated publications as a whole.”
• At its meeting in March 1990, the AAA Executive Committee voted that the Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award and the Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award serve different purposes and that it would be rare that one work would be the recipient of both of these awards.

Nominations Deadline

• Nominations are due by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on January 31.

Instructions for Submitting Nominations

• Members of the committee are encouraged to submit nominations. 
• Current committee members who are nominated for the award will be asked to either recuse themselves from the committee or remove their nomination from consideration.
• All nominees nominated for a given year’s award – who are not selected for that year’s award – will be automatically considered for the award for the following two (2) years – as long as the nominated work meets the publishing requirements (see below). 
  • Nominees who were not selected for the 2024 Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award will be considered during the selection process for the 2025 Award and, if not chosen for the 2025 Award, will also be considered for the 2026 Award.  At the end of the selection process for the 2026 Award, if a qualified nominee has not been chosen as the award recipient or has not been re-nominated, he/she will no longer be considered for the award.
  • Nominees who were not selected for the 2023 Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award will be considered during the selection process for the 2024 Award and, if not chosen for the 2024 Award, will also be considered for the 2025 Award.  At the end of the selection process for the 2025 Award, if a qualified nominee has not been chosen as the award recipient or has not been re-nominated, he/she will no longer be considered for the award.
  • Nominees who were not selected for the 2022 Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award will be considered during the selection process for the 2023 Award and, if not chosen for the 2023 Award, will also be considered for the 2024 Award.  At the end of the selection process for the 2024 Award, if a qualified nominee has not been chosen as the award recipient or has not been re-nominated, he/she will no longer be considered for the award.
  • Publishing criteria for 2024 Award - Nominated work must have been published or posted as an online early publication during the five calendar years preceding the year of the award (between 2019 and 2023)
    • Publishing criteria for 2023 Award - Nominated work must have been published or posted as an online early publication during the five calendar years preceding the year of the award (between 2018 and 2022)
    • Publishing criteria for 2022 Award - Nominated work must have been published or posted as an online early publication during the five calendar years preceding the year of the award (between 2017 and 2021)
• ​​Each nomination must include the DOI link and an electronic copy (Word, or PDF) of the article, monograph, book or other work published during the five calendar years preceding the year of the award (2024) that meets the award criteria.
• Each nomination must include a nomination letter.  Please provide a brief supporting statement summarizing reasons for the nomination that are consistent with the award selection criteria. Nomination letters will be accepted for two days after the submission deadline. If a nomination letter is not received, then the nomination will not be evaluated.
• Please attach the nomination and materials to an e-mail and send to Barbara Gutierrez, Professional Staff Liaison at awards@aaahq.org with "Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award" in the subject line of your email.
• Upon receipt of your nomination you will receive an acknowledgment message from the Professional Staff Liaison.
• All documents submitted in support of your nomination become the property of the American Accounting Association and will not be returned.  Do not submit by mail any irreplaceable documents.