Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Awards
Best Dissertation Award
To recognize the author of an outstanding financial accounting/reporting dissertation.
Nomination Deadline: September 15, annually
Committee Chair: Sudipta Basu (Sudipta.basu@temple.edu)
Midyear Meeting Best Paper Award
To recognize the paper presented at the Midyear Meeting that has the most potential to advance our understanding of financial accounting and reporting.
Nomination Deadline: September 15, annually
Committee Chair: Luo Zho (luozuo@nus.edu.sg)
Midyear Meeting Connecting to Practice Award
To encourage research that focuses on topics relevant to practitioners, standard-setters, regulators, and other financial reporting users.
Nomination Deadline: September 15, annually
Committee Chair: Anup Srivastava (anup.srivastava@ucalgary.ca)
Lifetime Service Award
The Lifetime Service Award recognizes distinguished service contributions to the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section.
Nomination Deadline: September 15, annually
Committee Chair: Kristina Rennekamp (kmr52@cornell.edu)
Distinguished PhD Mentoring Award
To recognize an individual's distinguished efforts in teaching and mentoring doctoral students in the financial accounting research area over the course of his/her career.
Nomination Deadline: September 15, annually
Committee Chair: Edward Li (Edward.li@baruch.cuny.edu)
Excellence in Reviewing Award
To recognize reviewers that demonstrate excellence in reviewing papers as part of the paper selection process for the FARS Midyear Meeting and AAA Annual Meeting.
Innovation in Financial Accounting Education Award
To recognize efforts to develop something new or different that increases student interest in the study of financial accounting or that improves the effectiveness and efficiency of financial accounting education.
Nomination Deadline: September 15, annually
Committee Chair: Derek Oler at derek.oler@ttu.edu
Best Paper Award
To enhance interaction among academic and practicing members and provide an incentive for researchers to focus their efforts on topics relevant to the practicing profession and standard-setters.
Nomination Deadline: September 15, annually
Committee Chair: Edwige Cheynel (Cheynel.edwige@gmail.com)
Lifetime Achievement Award
To recognize an individual's achievements in outstanding thought leadership in financial accounting research over the course of his/her career.
Nomination Deadline: September 15, annually
Committee Chair: Edward Li (Edward.li@baruch.cuny.edu).
Outstanding Discussion Award
To recognize discussants that provide outstanding discussions of papers presented at the FARS Midyear Meeting.
Nomination Deadline: September 15, annually
Committee Chair: Luo Zho (luozuo@nus.edu.sg)
President's Letter
John Xuefeng Jiang
Michigan State University
2024-2025 FARS Section President
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to share some updates and recognize the volunteers for their outstanding contributions to the 2024 Annual Meeting.
1. Acknowledgements:
- Special thanks to Atif Ellahie (Utah) and Christine Cuny (NYU) for organizing the 2024 Annual Meeting in DC.
- We appreciate the efforts of 18 track chairs and 500 reviewers who processed 475 submissions. Special thanks to Patricia Breuer (Erasmus) for handling 78 submissions and Forester Wong (City University of Hong Kong) for handling 46 submissions.
- We're pleased to recognize 30 reviewers with the AAA Excellence in Reviewing Awards.
Journal

The Journal of Financial Reporting (JFR) is the academic journal of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association.
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Research
FARS Research Objectives:
- A. to encourage, facilitate, and publicize research in financial accounting and reporting.
- B. to communicate interests, intentions, and actual work-in-process in the area.
- C. to identify areas in need of research.
- D. to provide opportunities for public exposure of research results through AAA meetings (annual, regional, and special meetings devoted solely to financial accounting and reporting) and publications (including working papers and a separate journal for financial accounting and reporting, if warranted).