Annual Best Paper Awards


Previous Award Recipients
 

2023 Award
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
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Stakeholder Engagement and Effective Standard Setting.” 

Amanda M. Convery
Matt Kaufman
Terry D. Warfield
Accounting Horizons, June 2022, Volume 36, Issue 2, pp: 47-69.

Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
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Aristocracy or Meritocracy? The Role of Elite Pedigree and Research Performance in New Accounting Faculty Placements."

Sid C. Bundy
Partha S. Mohapatra
Matthew Sooy
Dan N. Stone
Issues in Accounting Education, February 2022, Volume 37, Issue 1, pp: 19-39.

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Wealthy Watches Inc.: The Substantive Testing of Accounts Receivable in the Evolving Audit Environment.” 

Lindsay M. Andiola
Denise Hanes Downey
Christine E. Earley
Devon Jefferson 
Issues in Accounting Education, February 2022, Volume 37, Issue 1, pp: 19-39.

 


2022 Award
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
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Act or Be Acted Upon: Revolutionizing Accounting Curriculums with Data Analytics.” 

Vernon J. Richardson 
Marcia Weidenmier Watson
Accounting Horizons, June 2021, Volume 35, Issue 2, pp: 129–144.

Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
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Do We Matter? Attention the General Public, Policymakers, and Academics Give to Accounting Research.

F. Greg Burton, Scott L. Summers, T. Jeffrey Wilks, and David A. Wood
Issues in Accounting Education, February 2021, Volume 36, Issue 1, pp. 1–22.

 


2021 Award
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
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"Investigating Accountants' Resistance to Move beyond Excel and Adopt New Data Analytics Technology.

Pamela Jeanné Schmidt
Jennifer Riley
Kimberly Swanson Church
Accounting Horizons, December 2020, Volume 34, No. 4, pp. 165-180.


Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
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"Research Initiatives in Accounting Education: Toward a More Inclusive Accounting Academy.

Helen Brown-Liburd
Jennifer R. Joe
Issues in Accounting Education, September 2020, Volume 35, No. 4, pp. 87-110.

 


2020 Award

Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
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"Robotic Process Automation in Public Accounting."
Lauren Cooper
D. Kip Holderness, Jr.
Trevor L. Sorensen
David A. Wood
Accounting Horizons, December 2019, Volume 33, No. 42, pp. 15-35.


Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
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"Diamond Foods, Inc.: A Comprehensive Case in Financial Analysis and Valuation."
Mahendra R. Gujarathi
Issues in Accounting Education, February 2019, Volume 34, No. 1, pp. 13-33.


2019 Award

Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
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"A Review of the Archival Literature on Audit Partners.
Clive S. Lennox
Xi Wu 
Accounting Horizons, June 2018, Volume 32, No. 2, pp. 1-35.
 


Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
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"Using Visualization Software in the Audit of Revenue Transactions to Identify Anomalies."
Lauren M. Cunningham
Sarah E. Stein
Issues in Accounting Education, November 2018, Volume 33, No. 4, pp. 33-46. 

 


2018 Award

Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
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“Who Uses Financial Statements? A Demographic Analysis of Financial Statement Downloads from EDGAR” 
Michael S. Drake
Phillip J. Quinn
Jacob R. Thornock

Accounting Horizons. September 2017, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 55-68.

 

Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
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“Are Accountants Made or Born? An Analysis of Self-Selection into the Accounting Major and Performance in Accounting Courses and on the CPA Exam”
Allen D. Blay
M. G. Fennema
Issues in Accounting Education. August 2017, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 33-50.



2017 Award

Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
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"Comparing the Publication Process in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, Psychology, and the Natural Sciences"
David A. Wood
Accounting Horizons. September 2016, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 341-361

 

Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
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"How to Review a Paper"
Derek K. Oler and William R. Pasewark
Issues in Accounting Education. May 2016, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 219-234



2016 Award

Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
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“Accelerated Filing Deadlines, Internal Controls, and Financial Statement Quality: The Case of Originating Misstatements”
Colleen M. Boland, Scott N. Bronson, and Chris E. Hogan
Accounting Horizons. September 2015, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 265-295


“Financial Engineering and the Arms Race between Accounting Standard Setters and Preparers” 
Ronald A. Dye, Jonathan C. Glover, and Shyam Sunder
Accounting Horizons. June 2015, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 551-575

 

Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
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“Witnessing Your Own Cognitive Bias: A Compendium of Classroom Exercises”
Rebecca G. Fay and Norma R. Montague
Issues in Accounting Education. February 2015, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 13-34


2015 Award

Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
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"The Myth of Rigorous Accounting Research"
Paul F. Williams
Accounting Horizons. December 2014, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 869-887

Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
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"Accounting Education Research: Ranking Institutions and Individual Scholars"
D. Kip Holderness, Jr., Noah M. Myers, Scott L. Summers, and David A. Wood
Issues in Accounting Education. February 2014, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 87-115


2014 Award

Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
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"Integrating Information Technology into Accounting Research and Practice"
Guido L. Geerts, Lynford E. Graham, Elaine G. Mauldin, William E. McCarthy, and Vernon J. Richardson
Accounting Horizons. Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2012) pp. 815-840.

Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
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"Publication Benchmarking Data Based on Faculty Promoted at the Top 75 U.S. Accounting Research Institutions"
Steven M. Glover, Douglas F. Prawitt, Scott L. Summers and David A. Wood
Issues in Accounting Education. Volume 27, Issue 3 (August 2012) pp. 647-670.

"Seeds of Innovation in Accounting Scholarship"
Gregory B. Waymire
Issues in Accounting Education. Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2012) pp. 1077-1093.


2013 Award

Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
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"A Post-SOX Examination of Factors Associated with the Size of Internal Audit Functions"
Urton L. Anderson, Margaret H. Christ, Karla M. Johnstone and Larry E. Rittenberg
Accounting Horizons. Volume 26, Issue 2 (June 2012) pp. 167-191.

Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
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"Publication Benchmarking Data Based on Faculty Promoted at the Top 75 U.S. Accounting Research Institutions"
Steven M. Glover, Douglas F. Prawitt, Scott L. Summers and David A. Wood
Issues in Accounting Education. Volume 27, Issue 3 (August 2012) pp. 647-670.

"Seeds of Innovation in Accounting Scholarship"
Gregory B. Waymire
Issues in Accounting Education. Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2012) pp. 1077-1093.


2012 Award

Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
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"Accounting Doctoral Program Rankings on Research Productivity of Program Graudates Accounting Horizons"
Nathaniel M. Stephens, Scott L. Summers, Brady Williams, David A Wood
Accounting Horizons, Volume 25.149-181—2011

Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
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"Individual Accounting Faculty Research Rankings by Topical Area and Methodology Issues in Accounting Education"
Jeffrey Pickerd, Nathaniel M. Stephens, Scott L. Summers; David A. Wood
Issues in Accounting Education, Volume 26.471-505— 2011


2011 Award

Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
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"Neuroaccounting: Consilience between the Biologically Evolved Brain and Culturally Evolved Accounting Principles"
John Dickhaut, Sudipta Basu, Kevin McCabe and Greg Waymire
Accounting Horizons, Volume 24.2 — 2010

Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
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"Accounting Program Research Rankings by Topical Area and Methodology"
Joshua G. Coyne, Scott L. Summers, Brady Williams and David A. Wood
Issues in Accounting Education, Volume 25.4 — 2010


2010 Award

Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
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"The Impact of Academic Accounting Research on Professional Practice: An Analysis by the AAA Research Impact Task Force"
(AAA Research Impact Task Force)Stephen Moehrle, Kirsten Anderson, Frances Ayres, Cynthia Bolt-Lee, Roger Debreceny, Mike Dugan, Chris Hogan, Michael Maher, Elizabeth Plummer
Accounting Horizons, Volume 23.4— 2009

Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
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"Blessed Are the Gatekeepers: A Longitudinal Study of the Editorial Boards of The Accounting Review"
Timothy J. Fogarty and Chih-Hsien Liao
Issues in Accounting Education, Volume 24.3— 2009


2009 Award

Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
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"Rules and Accounting: Vagueness in Conceptual Frameworks"
Mark C. Penno
Accounting Horizons, Volume 22.3 — 2008

Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
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"What I Have Learned So Far: Observations on Managing an Academic Accounting Career"
Dana R. Hermanson
Issues in Accounting Education, Volume 23.1— 2008


2008 Award

Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
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"Beyond Competition: Institutional Isomorphism in U.S. Accounting Research"
Brad Tuttle and Jesse Dillard
Accounting Horizons, Volume 21.4 — 2007

Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
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"An Empirical Assessment of the Rise and Fall of Accounting as an Academic Discipline"
Timothy J. Fogarty and Garen Markarian
Issues in Accounting Education, Volume 22.2 — 2007


2007 Award

Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award

"Recordkeeping and Human Evolution"
Sudipta Basu and Gregory B. Waymire
Accounting Horizons, Volume 20.3 — 2006

Issues in Accounting Educations Best Paper Award

"Publications Records of Faculty Promoted at the Top 75 Accounting Research Programs"
Steven M. Glover, Douglas F. Prawitt and David A. Wood
Issues in Accounting Education, Volume 21.3 — 2006


2006 Award

Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award

"Does Graduate Business Education Contribute to Professional Accounting Success?"
Benson Wier, Dan N. Stone, and James E. Hunton
Accounting Horizons, Volume 19.2 — 2005

Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award

"Accounting for Liabilities: Conceptual Issues, Standard Setting, and Evidence from Academic Research"
Christine A. Botosan, Lisa Koonce, Stephen G. Ryan, Mary S. Stone, and James M. Wahlen
Accounting Horizons, Volume 19.3 — 2005