Press Releases for the 2023 AAA Award Recipients
- AAA/J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize
- AAA-AACSB-RRBM Award for Research Impacting Societal Challenges
- Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
- Competitive Manuscript Award
- Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award
- Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award
- Innovation in Accounting Education Award
- Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
- Lifetime Service Award
- Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award
- Outstanding Accounting Educator Award
- Outstanding Service Award
- The Accounting Review Outstanding Reviewer Award
Christine Cheng, Wayne Thomas, and Larry G. Stephens to receive the 2023 American Accounting Association/J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize
Lakewood Ranch, FL – April 21, 2023 – The American Accounting Association (AAA) would like to congratulate Christine Cheng, Wayne Thomas and Larry Stephens as recipients of the 2023 AAA/J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize. Christine Cheng is the recipient of the graduate award, Wayne Thomas is the recipient of the undergraduate award, and Larry G. Stephens is the recipient of the two-year college award. The awards will be presented to each recipient in the form of a solid silver medal and a monetary prize of $30,500 at the 2023 AAA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado during the Monday, August 7, 2023, plenary session.
Christine Cheng is an assistant professor of accountancy at the University of Mississippi’s Patterson School of Accountancy where she helped develop what is believed to be the first Masters of Taxation and Data Analytics program. Her recent positions as a visiting scholar with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) Office of Structured Disclosure and as a member of Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Taxonomy Advisory Group help her research and her ability to create data analytics cases that inspire students to gain a deeper understanding of real-world accounting problems. Three of Christine’s co-authored teaching cases won the AAA American Taxation Association Section’s Teaching Innovation awards, and her 175 custom video tutorials support students and faculty across the globe. She serves on the editorial board of Issues in Accounting Education, on the steering committee for the Intensive Data and Analytics Conference, and has published over 30 articles in both academic and practitioner journals. She appreciates the support from her colleagues, students, the accounting community, her husband, Chi, and their three children.
Wayne Thomas is the David C. Steed Chair in Accounting at the Michael F. Price College of Business at The University of Oklahoma (OU), where he has served as a member of the faculty since 2000. He received his undergraduate degree from Southwestern Oklahoma State University and his Master’s and PhD from Oklahoma State University. His favorite classes to teach are introductory financial accounting and intermediate accounting, and he enjoys exchanging teaching strategies with instructors across the country. His research focuses on financial reporting issues. He received the AAA’s Competitive Manuscript Award and was given OU’s highest research designation, being named a George Lynn Cross Research Professor. He also served as an editor at The Accounting Review. He has been married to Julee for 33 years, and they have four children and two grandchildren.
Larry G. Stephens, CPA, JD, LL.M., is currently a professor of accounting and assistant dean, Business Studies at Austin Community College District in Austin, Texas. Larry began his career in education in 2009 after more than 20 years of accounting and tax experience in the Oil and Gas and Electric Utility industries. He holds JD and LL.M. degrees from Thomas M. Cooley Law School, a Master of Science in taxation from The University of Texas at Arlington, and a Bachelor’s in Business Administration, major in accounting, from Sam Houston State University. Larry volunteers with numerous organizations including the Texas Society of CPA’s (TXCPA), AAA, and Teachers of Accounting at Two Year Colleges (TACTYC). Larry has done over twenty presentations for state and national accounting conferences. In 2022, Larry received an award from the TXCPA as the Outstanding Accounting Educator at the community college level and was named CPA of the Year by the Austin Chapter of TXCPA.
The AAA/J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize is the foremost recognition of an individual who consistently demonstrates the attributes of a superior teacher in the discipline of accounting. The Prize serves to recognize, inspire, and motivate members to achieve the status of a superior teacher. For 2023, up to three awards of $30,500 each can be made in the categories of graduate, undergraduate, and two-year accounting degree programs. More information about this award is available at https://aaahq.org/Education/Awards/The-J-Michael-and-Mary-Anne-Cook-Prize. For 2023, the AAA is honored to bestow this award to Christine Cheng, Wayne Thomas, and Larry G. Stephens.
Sudipta Basu, Justin Vitanza, Wei Wang, and Xiaoyu (Ross) Zhu to receive the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) sponsored 2023 AAA-AACSB-RRBM Award for Research Impacting Societal Challenges
Lakewood Ranch, FL – May 8, 2023 - The American Accounting Association (AAA) would like to congratulate Sudipta Basu, Justin Vitanza, Wei Wang, and Xiaoyu (Ross) Zhu as the recipients of the inaugural 2023 AAA-AACSB-RRBM Award for Research Impacting Societal Challenges for their paper “Walking the Walk? Bank ESG Disclosures and Home Mortgage Lending,” published in the 2022 Volume 27 issue of Review of Accounting Studies. This AAA award, which is sponsored by the AACSB, will be presented to the authors in the form of unique glass art pieces, certificates, and a $5,000 prize at the Tuesday, August 8 luncheon during the 2023 AAA Annual Meeting to be held in Denver, CO.
Sudipta Basu is a professor of Accounting and Robert Livingston Johnson Senior Research Fellow at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. He received the 2012 AAA Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Literature Award for his research on the effects of accounting conservatism on the properties of reported earnings. His research on the origins of accounting and its co-evolution with the brain and the complexity of economic exchange was recognized with the AAA’s 2006 and 2010 Accounting Horizons Best Paper Awards, and as the AAA’s 2019 Yuji Ijiri Memorial Lecturer on the Foundations of Accounting. He was an editor of Contemporary Accounting Research and is an associate editor or editorial board member of nine journals. Sudipta earned his PhD and MS at the University of Rochester, MBA at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, and BA (Honors) at the University of Delhi. He taught previously at Emory University and Baruch College.
Justin Vitanza is a Financial Economist at the Securities and Exchange Commission. He was previously an Assistant Professor at Temple University and a Financial Economist at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Justin received his PhD in Finance from the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester. His research varies across topics and disciplines. He has published papers in Economics, Finance, and Accounting journals on topics including Banking, Asset Pricing, and Foreign Currency and Trade. He has taught courses on Financial Derivatives, International Finance, and Statistics. While at Temple University, he served as the Managing and Academic Director of the Fischer-Shain Center for Financial Services.
Wei Wang is an assistant professor with the Department of Accounting at Temple University which he joined in 2017 upon completing his doctoral program at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His research centers on accounting issues pertaining to financial institutions and debt contracting. He likes to learn the implications of various institutional arrangements, such as standard setting, contracting, and market for corporate control, for financial and non-financial reporting practices. His work has been published in top journals including The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Management Science. His recent research shows that banks with purportedly high ESG scores conduct less mortgage lending in low-income communities compared with banks with lower ESG scores. This discrepancy reflects a social-wash phenomenon, which helps inform corporate managers, investors, and policymakers about limitations—and potential for improvement—in ESG disclosures
Xiaoyu Zhu is an assistant professor of finance at Lingnan College, Sun Yat-Sen University, China. His research fields include empirical corporate finance, corporate social responsibility, and banking. His most recent work is published in The Review of Accounting Studies. He graduated from Baruch College–CUNY in 2020 and received the Oscar Lasdon Memorial Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of finance or investment.
The AAA-AACSB-RRBM Award for Research Impacting Societal Challenges is given annually to recognize work based on its impact to society of responsible research in accounting. Responsible research is defined as research that produces both useful and credible knowledge addressing problems important to policy-setters, organizations, and society. Selected works must have been published in the previous three years. The recipients receive a $5000 prize. More information about this award is available online at https://aaahq.org/About/Directories/2022-2023-AAA-Committees-Task-Forces/Award-Committees/Award-for-Research-Impacting-Societal-Challenges/Award-Criteria. For 2023, the American Accounting Association and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business are honored to be able to bestow this award to Sudipta Basu, Justin Vitanza, Wei Wang, and Xiaoyu (Ross) Zhu.
Amanda M. Convery, Matt Kaufman, and Terry D. Warfield to receive the American Accounting Association 2023 Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
Lakewood Ranch, FL – May 8, 2023 - The American Accounting Association (AAA) would like to congratulate Amanda M. Convery, Matt Kaufman, and Terry D. Warfield as the recipients of the 2023 Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award for their paper “Stakeholder Engagement and Effective Standard Setting,” published in the June 2022 issue. This AAA award will be presented to the authors in the form of unique glass art pieces and a $2,500 prize at the Tuesday, August 8 luncheon during the 2023 AAA Annual Meeting to be held in Denver, CO.
Amanda M. Convery is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Accounting & MIS and a Women’s Leadership Initiative Fellow at the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics at the University of Delaware. Her research examines the processes through which accounting standards are created, maintained, and enforced, including the unintended consequences of those processes. Dr. Convery’s research has been published in top-tier academic journals, including Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, and Accounting, Auditing, and Accountability Journal. Dr. Convery teaches intermediate financial reporting to undergraduate and graduate students, and she enjoys sharing her research and practical experiences with her students. Dr. Convery is a CPA (PA) who previously worked as an auditor serving not-for-profit clients and in financial reporting for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. She received a B.B.A. from Temple University, an MBA from Villanova University, and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Matt Kaufman is an Associate Professor of Accounting and Information Systems at Portland State University. He received an undergraduate degree from George Fox University and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Terry D. Warfield is PwC Chair in Accounting and Senior Associate Dean at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received a B.S. and MBA from Indiana University and a PhD from the University of Iowa. Prior to his academic career, he worked for five years in the banking industry and from 1995-1996 he served as the Academic Accounting Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Terry teaches financial reporting courses, has served on numerous PhD dissertation committees, and developed several case studies, which have been published in Issues in Accounting Education and the AICPA Professor-Practitioner Case Development Program. Terry’s research examines accounting standards and disclosure policies, including the effects of accounting information and disclosures on securities markets. He has served on a variety of AAA committees, as one of three academic members of the Advisory Council to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (2005-2009), and as a trustee for the Financial Accounting Foundation (2013-2019).
The Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award is presented to the best paper published each calendar year. The award recipient is selected by online voting open to all members of the American Accounting Association. More information about this award is available online at https://aaahq.org/Education/Awards/2023-Best-Paper-Awards. For 2023, the American Accounting Association is honored to be able to bestow this award to Amanda M. Convery, Matt Kaufman, and Terry D. Warfield.
Rustam Zufarov to receive the American Accounting Association 2023 Competitive Manuscript Award
Lakewood Ranch, FL – May 8, 2023 - The American Accounting Association (AAA) would like to congratulate Rustam Zufarov as the recipient of the 2023 Competitive Manuscript Award. Professor Zufarov’s manuscript is “Revealed Proprietary Information Disclosure.” This AAA award will be presented in the form of a unique glass art piece at the Wednesday, August 9 plenary session at the 2023 AAA Annual Meeting to be held in Denver, CO.
Rustam Zufarov is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He earned his PhD from Rice University in 2020. Professor Zufarov’s interests span the intersection between accounting and finance, voluntary disclosures, and healthcare accounting. His research focuses on exploring the role of corporate disclosure decisions around corporate financing events and studying the consequences of financial regulations on the access to capital. Prior to his academic career, Professor Zufarov worked in public accounting as an auditor at Deloitte in Minneapolis, MN.
The Competitive Manuscript Award was created to encourage research among members of the AAA who have earned their Ph.D. within the past five years. The recipient is chosen annually in a blind review by the Competitive Manuscript Award Selection Committee. More information about this award is available online at https://aaahq.org/About/Directories/2022-2023-AAA-Committees-Task-Forces/Award-Committees/Competitive-Manuscript-Award-Committee/Award-Criteria. For 2023, the American Accounting Association is very proud to give this award to Rustam Zufarov for his exceptional work.
Dain Donelson, Matthew Ege, Andrew Imdieke, and Eldar Maksymov to receive the 2023 Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award
Lakewood Ranch, FL – May 8, 2023 - The American Accounting Association (AAA) would like to congratulate Dain Donelson, Matthew Ege, Andrew Imdieke, and Eldar Maksymov as the recipients of the 2023 Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award (“AAA award”) for their paper, “The Revival of Large Consulting Practices at the Big 4 and Audit Quality" published in the November 2020 issue of Accounting, Organizations and Society. The AAA award will be presented to Professors Donelson, Ege, Imdieke and Maksymov in the form of a medal and monetary prize at the Monday, August 7 plenary session at the 2023 AAA Annual Meeting to be held in Denver, CO.
Dain Donelson is the Henry B. Tippie Excellence Chair and Professor of Accounting and a Professor of Law (by courtesy) at the University of Iowa. Previously, he was a Professor of Accounting and a Professor of Law (by courtesy) at The University of Texas at Austin. He has taught courses in a variety of areas, including financial accounting, business law, and accountants’ regulation and liability. His research involves the intersection of law and accounting, primarily in areas such as securities litigation, financial reporting fraud, earnings management, directors’ and officers’ insurance, corporate law, corporate governance, earnings properties, capital market regulation, and accounting standards. His education includes a J.D. from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and a PhD in Accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Matthew (Matt) Ege is Associate Professor, PwC Professorship in Accounting and Ph.D. Coordinator, at the James Benjamin Department of Accounting at Texas A&M University. Dr. Ege’s research interests include how auditors, audit committees, and regulators improve audit and financial reporting quality. He has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, and Auditing: A Journal of Theory & Practice. His research has also been cited by various media outlets including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He serves on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Auditing: A Journal of Theory & Practice and has received department- and college-level teaching awards. He previously worked as a director for a technology firm and a manager for a Big 4 accounting firm performing information technology assurance and consulting services.
Andrew (Andy) Imdieke is an assistant professor and EY faculty fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business where he mostly teaches undergraduate auditing classes. His research interests focus on internal controls over financial reporting, non-audit services, bank audits, and factors that impact audit quality. He earned his doctorate and MBA degrees from Michigan State University and his undergraduate degree in accounting from Hope College. Prior to entering academia, Imdieke was an assurance associate at Plante & Moran, PLLC’s Ann Arbor office and subsequently served as Director of Internal Audit at Borders Books & Music.
Eldar Maksymov is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He graduated with a PhD in Accounting from Cornell University in 2015. Before academia, Eldar worked for five years as an auditor for Deloitte and held CPA licenses in several states and Washington, DC. In his research, Eldar uses primarily qualitative and survey methods to examine the work of regulators, auditors, and other participants in capital markets. Eldar has published his research in premier accounting research journals including Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting, Organizations and Society. Eldar has also published a popular audit textbook focusing on the areas that undergraduates need to know before they graduate, and a casebook with insights from diverse professionals for self-development and group study to help students and professionals navigate DEI in organizations.
The Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award was founded in 1978 to commemorate John Wildman and to encourage research relevant to the professional practice of accounting to which much of Mr. Wildman's life was devoted. More information about this award is available online at https://aaahq.org/About/Directories/2022-2023-AAA-Committees-Task-Forces/Award-Committees/Deloitte-Wildman-Award-Committee/Award-Criteria. For 2023, the AAA is honored to be able to present this award to Dain Donelson, Matthew Ege, Andrew Imdieke, and Eldar Maksymov.
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.
Peter M. Clarkson, Yue Li, Gordon D. Richardson, and Florin P. Vasvari to receive the American Accounting Association 2023 Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award
Lakewood Ranch, FL – May 8, 2023 - The American Accounting Association (AAA) is pleased to announce that the 2023 Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award will be presented to Peter M. Clarkson, Yue Li, Gordon D. Richardson, and Florin P. Vasvari for their works “Revisiting the relation between environmental performance and environmental disclosure: An empirical analysis,” published in the May-July 2008 issue of Accounting, Organizations and Society, and “Does it really pay to be green? Determinants and consequences of proactive environmental strategies,” published in the March-April 2011 issue of Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. This AAA award will be presented to the authors in the form of unique glass art pieces and a $2,500 prize at the Tuesday, August 8 luncheon at the 2023 AAA Annual Meeting to be held in Denver, CO.
Peter Clarkson is currently a Professor of Accounting in the UQ Business School at The University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia and an Adjunct Professor in the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. He holds a Canadian CPA designation and received his PhD in finance from The University of British Columbia. Throughout his career, his primary research interests have been focused on issues relating to disclosure (both of financial and non-financial natures), firm performance and valuation, and more recently, narrowly on the drivers, economic implications, and valuation relevance of CSR disclosure and CSR performance. His work has been published in leading accounting and finance journals, as well as in professional periodicals. He has also been afforded the privilege over his career of contributing to the profession through editorial responsibilities at a number of academic accounting journals, including Contemporary Accounting Research and Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.
Yue Li, CPA, CMA, is a professor of accounting at the Institute for Management & Innovation at the University of Toronto, where he serves as associate director of the Master of Management and Professional Accounting Program. He earned his PhD in Accounting from Queen’s University and was a Fellow at the Michael Lee-Chin Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management. He has served as Editor (ad hoc) for Contemporary Accounting Research, Guest Editor for Journal of Management Accounting Research, and Associate Editor for the British Accounting Review and Managerial Auditing Journal. His research focuses on the disclosure and valuation relevance of corporate environmental performance, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability management. He has published in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, European Accounting Review, and Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, among others.
Florin Vasvari is Chair of Accounting Faculty and Academic Director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital at London Business School. He also serves on the school’s management board and finance committee. Florin teaches courses on Private Equity and Venture Capital, Distressed Investing as well as Mergers and Acquisitions. He is actively pursuing research on credit markets and ESG issues and has published over twenty articles in top tier academic journals. He also currently serves as an Editor at The Accounting Review, having previously served as an editor at the European Accounting Review. He co-authored a book entitled "International Private Equity" in 2011 and two volumes of a new textbook entitled “Private Capital (Vol 1: Funds, Vol 2: Investments)” in 2019. He holds a PhD in Accounting and Finance from the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management and a master’s in Economics from the University of Toronto, Department of Economics.
The Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award is presented annually to that work or related works published more than five years but not more than 15 years prior to the year of the award and recognizes accounting research based on uniqueness and magnitude of contribution to accounting education, practice and/or future accounting research, originality and innovative content, clarity and organization of exposition and soundness and appropriateness of methodology. More information about this award is available online at https://aaahq.org/About/Directories/2022-2023-AAA-Committees-Task-Forces/Award-Committees/Distinguished-Contribution-to-Accounting-Literature-Award-Selection-Committee/Award-Criteria. For 2023, the AAA is honored to be able to bestow this award to Peter M. Clarkson, Yue Li, Gordon D. Richardson, and Florin P. Vasvari.
Tracy Noga and David Szymanski to receive the Ernst & Young Foundation-sponsored 2023 Innovation in Accounting Education Award
Lakewood Ranch, FL – May 8, 2023 - The American Accounting Association (AAA) is pleased to announce that the 2023 Innovation in Accounting Education Award will be presented to Tracy Noga and David Szymanski for their innovation, Business and Science: Integrated Curriculum for Sustainability (BASICS). This AAA award, which is sponsored by the Ernst & Young Foundation, will be presented to them in the form of unique glass art pieces and a $5,000 prize at the Tuesday, August 8 luncheon at the 2023 AAA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.
Tracy Noga is the Wilder Teaching Professor and Chair of the Accounting Department at Bentley University. She received her BSBA from Bryant University, her MST from the University of Hartford and her PhD from Texas Tech University. She has served as an editor at Issues in Accounting Education. She has published in journals such as The Journal of Corporate Finance, The Journal of the American Taxation Association, Accounting Horizons and, Behavioral Research in Accounting. Tracy is active in the American Taxation Association Section of the AAA as well as the Massachusetts Society of CPA's and various community organizations. She is a Certified Public Accountant in both Massachusetts and Connecticut (inactive).
David Szymanski, PhD is an associate professor of geology and sustainability at Bentley University in Waltham, MA. He earned his doctorate in geological sciences – as well as MS degrees in geology and forensics chemistry – from Michigan State University. In addition to research interests in the cycling of elements in earth systems, Szymanski is also a forensic scientist, specializing in the examination of glass as trace evidence, and testifying in numerous criminal cases. Before coming to Bentley, he was a Congressional Science Fellow in the U.S. Senate, where he served as energy and environmental policy advisor to Sen. Jon Tester of Montana. Szymanski engages business students in research for nonpartisan policy development on issues of energy, climate change, and natural resources. As the lead investigator on the BASICS project, he now conducts pedagogical research on teaching all students the complex, transdisciplinary problems of sustainability in higher education.
The annual Innovation in Accounting Education Award is intended to encourage innovation and improvement in accounting education. It recognizes significant programmatic changes or a significant activity, concept, or set of educational materials. Submissions are judged by their innovation, demonstrated educational benefits or value, and adaptability by other academic institutions or to other situations. More information about this award is available online at https://aaahq.org/About/Directories/2022-2023-AAA-Committees-Task-Forces/Award-Committees/Innovation-in-Accounting-Education-Award-Committee/Award-Criteria. For 2023, the American Accounting Association and the Ernst & Young Foundation are very pleased to give this award to Tracy Noga and David Szymanski.
Sid C. Bundy, Partha S. Mohapatra, Matthew Sooy, and Dan N. Stone, and Lindsay M. Andiola, Denise Hanes Downey, Christine E. Earley, and Devon Jefferson to receive the American Accounting Association 2023 Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
Lakewood Ranch, FL – May 8, 2023 - The American Accounting Association (AAA) is pleased to congratulate Sid C. Bundy, Partha S. Mohapatra, Matthew Sooy, and Dan N. Stone, and Lindsay M. Andiola, Denise Hanes Downey, Christine E. Earley, and Devon Jefferson as the recipients of the 2023 Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award. The paper “Aristocracy or Meritocracy? The Role of Elite Pedigree and Research Performance in New Accounting Faculty Placements,” by Professors Bundy, Mohapatra, Sooy, and Stone was published in the February 2022 issue. “Wealthy Watches Inc.: The Substantive Testing of Accounts Receivable in the Evolving Audit Environment,” by Professors Andiola, Downey, Earley, and Jefferson was published in the May 2022 issue. This AAA award will be presented to the authors in the form of unique glass art pieces and a $2,500 prize at the Tuesday, August 8 plenary session at the 2023 AAA Annual Meeting to be held in Denver, CO.
Sid C. Bundy is an Assistant Professor of Accounting in the College of Business at Tennessee Technological University, where she teaches Advanced Audit and Attestation and Financial Statement Analysis. She received her PhD from the Gatton College of Business at the University of Kentucky. She leverages her previous experience as an auditor and a secondary teacher to pursue research on training students and new graduates. Outside the classroom, her service focuses on strengthening the pipeline between high school and university accounting programs through FBLA, DECA, and CTE programs.
Partha S. Mohapatra’s academic career spans several global universities, including California State University-Sacramento, Texas Tech University, Zayed University (Dubai), and Morgan State University. Dr. Mohapatra has also held visiting positions at institutions at the University of Strasbourg (France), and Tomas Bata University (Czech Republic). His research interests include accounting data analytics, accounting education, and auditing. In addition to his academic career, Dr. Mohapatra has served in various positions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including Diversity Hiring Fellow at California State University-Sacramento and as a member of the Diversity Awards Committee. As an active participant in international conferences, Dr. Mohapatra has shared his expertise through panel discussions, invited talks, and workshops. He has also served on editorial boards for various accounting journals, such as the Journal of Forensic Accounting and Research, Issues in Accounting Education, and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory.
Matthew Sooy is an Assistant Professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business in London, Ontario. He received his PhD from the University of Kentucky and previously worked with KPMG. His research focuses on topics of market efficiency and regulatory compliance, primarily employing behavioral methods. He is grateful for the patience, attention, and support of his wonderful colleagues, his family, and the American Accounting Association.
Dan N. Stone, PhD, CPA (inactive) is a Professor at the University of Kentucky. He is an author of the information technology sections of Wiley CPAExcel. His joint PhD degree is in accounting and information technology from The University of Texas at Austin. He teaches and conducts research on data visualization, business analytics, and the effects of technology and mindfulness on attention and learning. He enjoys hiking, meditating, and kayaking. He plays pickleball and is the faculty advisor to the University of Kentucky pickleball club.
Lindsay M. Andiola is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research interests include audit firm quality control initiatives, auditor-auditor interactions, audit firm culture, and auditor professional development. Her interest in professional development extends to the undergraduate audit classroom where she has developed a number of teaching cases that help students learn using "real world" audit techniques. Her work is published in Accounting, Organizations, and Society, Accounting Horizons, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and Issues in Accounting Education. Lindsay’s research has been supported by awards from the CAQ Access to Audit Personnel and VCU’s Quest for Distinction. Lindsay completed her PhD in Accountancy at Bentley University as an AICPA Accounting Doctoral Scholar. Prior to the PhD program, she spent three years with KPMG as an auditor and three years in corporate accounting at a private equity firm in NYC.
Denise Hanes Downey is an Associate Professor at Villanova University, where she holds the KPMG Endowed Professorship in Accounting. Denise previously served as a Senior Economic Research Fellow in the Office of Economic and Risk Analysis at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Denise completed her PhD at Bentley University and worked at PwC prior to being selected into the Accounting Doctoral Scholars program. A Philadelphia area native, Denise received both her BS and MA from Villanova University. Denise’s research focuses on auditor judgment and decision making, with an emphasis on arrangements where auditors are geographically dispersed. She is an expert on group audits and offshoring and has examined pertinent challenges encountered by auditors domestically and internationally on such engagements. Denise teaches auditing, international accounting, and financial accounting and has received several innovation teaching awards and grants for her work at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Christine E. Earley is the Associate Provost for Faculty Development and Professor of Accountancy at Providence College. From 2014-2016, Dr. Earley took a professional leave from the college to serve as a faculty fellow in the Global Services Centre of KPMG, LLP. Her research has been published in journals such as, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Issues in Accounting Education, and Behavioral Research in Accounting. She currently serves as an editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. She has instructed the AAA Auditing Section Audit Educators’ Bootcamp since 2011, and she served as the VP Academic/President/ Past President of the AAA Auditing Section from 2020-2023. She received her PhD in accounting and Master’s in cognitive psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and her undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Connecticut.
Devon Jefferson is a fifth-year PhD candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University where her research interests primarily focus on auditor-auditor interactions, auditor well-being, auditor training, and various aspects of audit quality control. She also enjoys creating teaching cases that introduce students to important audit practices. Devon earned her bachelor’s degree in accounting from North Carolina A&T State University and her master’s degree in accounting from Michigan State University. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, she spent five years in KPMG LLP’s Federal Audit Practice and two years on rotation with KPMG’s Business School developing and delivering training. She later spent two years as an Audit Manager with a regional public accounting firm overseeing audits in a variety of industries, including financial institutions, oil and gas, hotels, and not-for-profits. Devon is a licensed CPA in the state of North Carolina.
The Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award is presented to the best paper published each calendar year. The award recipients are selected by online voting open to all members of the American Accounting Association. More information about this award is available online at https://aaahq.org/Education/Awards/2023-Best-Paper-Awards. For 2023, the American Accounting Association is honored to be able to present this award to Sid C. Bundy, Partha S. Mohapatra, Matthew Sooy, and Dan N. Stone, and Lindsay M. Andiola, Denise Hanes Downey, Christine E. Earley, and Devon Jefferson.
Karen Pincus and Jan R. Williams to receive the American Accounting Association 2023 Lifetime Service Award
Lakewood Ranch, FL – May 8, 2023 - The American Accounting Association (AAA) is very proud to congratulate Karen Pincus and Jan R. Williams as the recipients of the 2023 Lifetime Service Award. This AAA award will be presented in the form of unique glass art pieces at the Tuesday, August 8 luncheon at the 2023 AAA Annual Meeting to be held in Denver, CO.
Karen Pincus retired in 2018 from the University of Arkansas, where she was the Doyle Z. and Maynette Derr Williams Professor of Accounting. Karen is known for her service as a leader, including two terms on the American Accounting Association (AAA) board and serving as 2012-2013 President, President of Beta Alpha Psi and the U.S. member of International Federation of Accountants’ International Accounting Education Standards Board for two term (2006-2011). She was Deputy Chair of the International Accounting Education Standards Board (2010 and 2011).
Karen is a past president of the AAA Auditing Section, served on the Accounting Programs Leadership Group Board of Governors, as a supply chain representative to the Pathways Commission, and as a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Board of Directors. She served on the editorial boards of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and Issues in Accounting Education. She served on numerous committees for these organizations over the course of her career. She is finishing service in August 2023 as a Selector for the AAA/J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize given to outstanding accounting teachers.
Karen earned her PhD at the University of Maryland in 1984 and came to Arkansas in 1995 after 12 years on the faculty at the University of Southern California. Among others, she received the AAA’s Innovation in Accounting Education award.
Jan R. Williams is Dean and Professor Emeritus of the Haslam College of Business at The University of Tennessee where he was on the accounting faculty from 1977 to 2013. He served as Head of the Department of Accounting and Information Management from 1985–1993 and as Dean of the college from 2000-2013. Earlier he was on the faculties of The University of Georgia and Texas Tech University. Twice during his career, he worked for the professional services firm, EY.
He received his BS degree from George Peabody College (now Vanderbilt University), MBA from Baylor University, and PhD from the University of Arkansas, where he majored in both accounting and economics. He is a CPA in Tennessee (active) and Arkansas (inactive). He is the co-author of multiple editions of four books and has published over 125 articles, books, research monographs, continuing education courses, and other publications on issues of corporate financial reporting and accounting and business education.
Dr. Williams held leadership positions in several professional accounting and business organizations. These include the American Accounting Association (AAA) (President), Beta Alpha Psi (National President), Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (Chair of Board). He was a member of the Accounting Education Change Commission and the Pathways Commission. In 2018, he received the AAA’s Outstanding Accounting Educator Award.
In retirement, he promotes financial wellness through several organizations, focusing on preparing young people for a life of financial wellbeing.
The Lifetime Service Award recognizes service contributions to accounting education over a sustained period of time through service to the AAA, service with the education efforts in the profession through involvement with the AICPA, IMA, and other accounting professional organizations, and service with the education efforts of public accounting firms, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations. More information about this award is available at https://aaahq.org/About/Directories/2022-2023-AAA-Committees-Task-Forces/Award-Committees/Lifetime-Service-Award-Committee/Award-Criteria. For 2023, the American Accounting Association is extremely pleased to honor Karen Pincus and Jan R. Williams for their dedicated service to the education and practice of accounting.
Lauren A. Cooper, D. Kip Holderness, Jr., Trevor L. Sorensen, and David A. Wood, and Matthias Breuer to receive the AICPA-sponsored 2023 Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award
Lakewood Ranch, FL – May 8, 2023 - The American Accounting Association (AAA) would like to congratulate Lauren A. Cooper, D. Kip Holderness, Jr., Trevor L. Sorensen, and David A. Wood, and Matthias Breuer as the recipients of the 2023 Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award. “Robotic Process Automation in Public Accounting,” by Cooper, Holderness, Sorensen and Wood was published in the December 2019 issue of Accounting Horizons. Breuer’s work, “How Does Financial-Reporting Regulation Affect Industry-Wide Resource Allocation?” was published in the March 2021 issue of Journal of Accounting Research. This AAA award, which is sponsored by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), will be presented in the form of unique glass art pieces, plaques, and a $2,500 prize at the Wednesday, August 9 plenary session at the 2023 AAA Annual Meeting to be held in Denver, CO.
Lauren A. Cooper is an assistant professor of accounting in the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University. She teaches in the areas of taxation and financial accounting. Dr. Cooper’s primary research interests focus on the impact of technology on accounting and the effects of corporate social responsibility on investors and firms. Dr. Cooper earned her PhD in business administration from Oklahoma State University. She also earned her M.S. in accounting and B.A. in mathematics from Oklahoma State University. Dr. Cooper lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, with her husband and son.
D. Kip Holderness, Jr., PhD, CPA, CMA, CFE is an associate professor of accounting at West Virginia University. He teaches managerial and forensic accounting and works extensively with doctoral students conducting various research projects. His research focuses primarily on the impact of fraud and employee deviance on individuals and organizations as well as improving detection methods. He has published in practitioner and academic journals in the areas of fraud and forensics, auditing, managerial accounting, information systems, and accounting education. In addition, Dr. Holderness has received numerous research grants from the Institute for Fraud Prevention and the Institute of Management Accountants. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University and Bentley University. He currently resides in Morgantown, West Virginia with his wife Carolyn and their five wonderful daughters.
Trevor L. Sorensen is an assistant professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance at the University of Wyoming. Dr. Sorensen earned his PhD at The University of Alabama and his B.S. and MAcc degrees at Brigham Young University. He teaches introductory taxation and the taxation of entities. Dr. Sorensen's research interests include analyst forecasts, taxation, bond markets, and new technologies in accounting. He currently lives in Laramie, Wyoming with his wife, Megan, and their six children. Outside of work, Dr. Sorensen enjoys winning during family game night, woodworking, and exploring the great outdoors.
David A. Wood is passionate about understanding new technologies and implementing them into the curriculum of Brigham Young University, where he works as the Glenn D. Ardis professor of accounting. He received his PhD at Indiana University and his BS and MAcc degrees at Brigham Young University. At BYU, Dr. Wood teaches accounting data analytics and accounting information systems. He has published over 100 articles in a combination of respected academic and practitioner journals, monographs, books, and cases. His research has won multiple best paper awards. He is a current or past editor at five journals and editorial board member for six journals. He works with the EY ARC to develop curriculum that is provided for free to academics throughout the world. He is also a coauthor on the market-leading AIS textbook, Accounting Information Systems by Romney, Steinbart, Summers, and Wood and codeveloper of the https://www.byuaccounting.net/ and https://www.techhub.training websites.
Matthias Breuer is an Associate Professor of Business in the Accounting Division of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business, an Affiliate Fellow of the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies on the Foundations of Law and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt. His research examines issues of corporate transparency and information verification, with a particular focus on the role of regulation in addressing corporate information issues. His research has been recognized with multiple awards and his teaching at Columbia Business School has earned him the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in the Core. Professor Breuer joined Columbia University in 2018 after graduating from the PhD program of The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
The Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award is given annually to that work published within five years of the year of the award which has withstood a rigorous process of screening and scrutiny based on certain criteria, such as uniqueness and potential magnitude of contribution to accounting education, practice and/or future accounting research, breadth of potential interest, originality and innovative content, clarity and organization of exposition and soundness and appropriateness of methodology. More information about this award is available online at https://aaahq.org/About/Directories/2022-2023-AAA-Committees-Task-Forces/Award-Committees/Notable-Contributions-to-Accounting-Literature-Award-Selection-Committee/Award-Criteria. For 2023, the American Accounting Association and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants are very pleased to give this award to Lauren A. Cooper, D. Kip Holderness, Jr., Trevor L. Sorensen, and David A. Wood, and Matthias Breuer.
Lillian F. Mills and Poh-Sun Seow to receive the PwC-sponsored 2023 Outstanding Accounting Educator Award
Lakewood Ranch, FL – May 8, 2023 -The American Accounting Association (AAA) is very pleased to congratulate Lillian F. Mills and Poh-Sun Seow as the recipients of the 2023 Outstanding Accounting Educator Award. This AAA award, which is sponsored by PwC, consists of a unique glass art piece, citation, and a $5,000 prize. There is also an additional $5,000 donation given to the AAA on behalf of the recipients which will be used according to Professor Mills’ and Professor Seow’s wishes. This award will be presented at the Tuesday, August 8 plenary at the 2023 AAA Annual Meeting to be held in Denver, CO.
Lillian F. Mills is Dean of the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a committed strategic leader, a top policy-relevant tax scholar, and an award-winning educator. Following her BS and MS at the University of Florida, she served Deloitte and PwC from 1981 to 1989. After her PhD at the University of Michigan, Mills served The University of Arizona from 1997 to 2005. She was the 2005 Surrey Fellow in the US Office of Tax Analysis and consulted to the IRS for two decades. She chaired the Accounting Department, ranked #1 by USNews for more than 15 years, and served as an Editor for both The Accounting Review and Contemporary Accounting Research. She received AAA’s Deloitte Wildman Medal, McCombs’ Career Research Award, McCombs’ Undergraduate Amplify Award for inclusive classrooms, and the AAA’s American Taxation Association 2014 EY Sommerfeld Outstanding Educator Award. Lillian and Jim enjoy visiting their children and grandchildren in MI, NJ, OH, and Mexico.
Poh-Sun Seow is Associate Professor of Accounting (Education) and Associate Dean (Teaching and Curriculum) of the School of Accountancy at Singapore Management University (SMU). Prior to joining SMU, Dr. Seow was a lecturer at The University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow Chartered Accountant of Singapore and Fellow of CPA Australia. He has won several international teaching awards such as the 2022 European Accounting Association Accounting Education Excellence Award, the 2020 Canadian Academic Accounting Association Howard Teall Award for Innovation in Accounting Education (First Prize), the 2018 AAA Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Section’s Outstanding Instructional Contribution Award, 2017 AAA MAS and IMA Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education, and 2015 AAA Innovation in Accounting Education Award. He was also inducted on the SMU Teaching Honour Roll in 2017 for receiving at least three SMU Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Awards. He also received the SMU Teaching Excellence in Postgraduate Professional Programmes Award in 2020.
The Outstanding Accounting Educator Award is presented to educators with sustained contributions that have significantly impacted accounting education or accounting educators, with sustained and substantive contributions from a wide variety of academic institutions, and whose career contributions include educational innovation, excellence in teaching, publications, research guidance and mentorship to students (at any level) and impactful service to the profession and/or academic community. More information about this award is available online at https://aaahq.org/About/Directories/2022-2023-AAA-Committees-Task-Forces/Award-Committees/Outstanding-Accounting-Educator-Award-Committee/Award-Criteria For 2023, the American Accounting Association and PwC are very pleased to give this award to Lillian F. Mills and Poh-Sun Seow.
Elaine G. Mauldin to receive the American Accounting Association's 2023 Outstanding Service Award
Lakewood Ranch, FL – May 8, 2023 - The American Accounting Association (AAA) is very proud to congratulate Elaine G. Mauldin as the recipient of the 2023 Outstanding Service Award. This AAA award, which may be awarded at any time by the Board of Directors, will be presented to Professor Mauldin in the form of a unique glass art piece at the 2023 AAA Annual Meeting during the Tuesday, August 8 luncheon in Denver, CO.
Elaine G. Mauldin is the FORVIS Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri in the School of Accountancy and a past President (2020-2021) of the American Accounting Association (AAA). She teaches Auditing Internal Controls, incorporating current developments in data analytics, and a doctoral seminar introducing accounting research to first year students. Professor Mauldin conducts research in auditing, corporate governance, and internal controls. She has published papers in leading accounting academic journals such as Journal of Accounting & Economics, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting Organizations & Society. Professor Mauldin currently serves on the AAA DEI committee, the Nominations committee, the Accounting Hall of Fame selection committee and the AAA/J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize selection committee. She is a former Editor for The Accounting Review.
The Outstanding Service Award recognizes outstanding services to the Association other than educational and research contributions. The prestigious award is intended only for rare events or milestones achieved. More information about this award is available at http://aaahq.org/Education/Awards/Outstanding-Service-Award. For 2023, the American Accounting Association is extremely pleased to be able to present this award to Elaine G. Mauldin in honor of her dedicated service to the education and practice of accounting.
The Accounting Review Outstanding Reviewer Award
Lakewood Ranch, FL – May 8, 2023 - The American Accounting Association (AAA) would like to congratulate ten editorial board members and seven ad hoc reviewers of The Accounting Review (TAR) as recipients of the 2023 Outstanding Reviewer Award for The Accounting Review. This TAR award will be presented to the recipients in the form of a unique wood and glass plaque at the Wednesday, August 9 plenary at the 2023 AAA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.
The Outstanding Reviewer Award recognizes truly outstanding reviewers who provided many high-quality and timely reviews to The Accounting Review during W. Robert Knechel’s term as Senior Editor. Award recipients were nominated by journal editors and selected based on consideration of three key TAR reviewer performance metrics—number of completed reviews, average editor-rating of the quality of the reviews, and review timeliness. The recipients are a select group of individuals, who represent the very highest quality of TAR reviewers.
Editorial Board Members:
Darren Bernard, University of Washington
Clara Xiaoling Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter Demerjian, Georgia State University
Shane M. Heitzman, University of Southern California
Jessen Hobson (deceased), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Martin Jacob, WHU–Otto Beisheim School of Management
John D. Kepler, Stanford University
Kenneth J. Merkley, Indiana University Bloomington
Jeremy Michels, University of Pennsylvania
Bridget M. Stomberg, Indiana University Bloomington
Ad Hoc Reviewers:
Matthew Bloomfield, University of Pennsylvania
Nathan C. Goldman, North Carolina State University
Frank Moers, Maastricht University
James R. Moon, Georgia Institute of Technology
Andrea Pawliczek, University of Colorado Boulder
Jalil Sani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sara Toynbee, The University of Texas at Austin
Last year's recipients