2025 Best Paper Awards

Previous Award Recipients

PURPOSE:
The Accounting Horizons and Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Awards are presented annually. The awards are given for the best paper published each calendar year for either publication.

ELIGIBILITY:
All papers appearing in Accounting Horizons and Issues in Accounting Education in 2024, except for editorials written by the editor and committee reports, are eligible.

SELECTION PROCESS:
Editors of each journal, Accounting Horizons and Issues in Accounting Education, select the top five papers published in the calendar year of each journal. Each award recipient is then selected by online voting which is open to all members of the American Accounting Association. Online voting is scheduled in the spring of each year and will be announced via mass emails and the AAA website.

PRESENTATION OF AWARD:

The recipient(s) of the Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award and the recipient(s) of the Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award will receive an award and $2,500 at the AAA Annual Meeting. If there are multiple recipients for each Best Paper Award, the amount is divided evenly.

The recipient(s) will announced on the AAA website and in multi-topic mass emails.