Midyear Best Paper Award
Purpose: The Midyear Meeting Best Paper Award is intended to provide an incentive for researchers to focus their efforts on topics relevant to the practicing profession and standard-setters. The award will be made to the author(s) of a paper presented at the midyear meeting that is judged to best reflect the tradition of academic scholarship and be of relevance to problems facing the accounting profession and standard-setters.
Nature of Award:The Midyear Best Paper Award carries with it a $1,500 cash prize and engraved plaques for the authors of the winning paper. The winner will be announced and recognized at the Section's meeting during the AAA Annual Meeting in year of the award. The Midyear Meeting Best Paper Award is intended to provide an incentive for researchers to focus their efforts on topics relevant to the practicing profession and standard-setters. The award will be made to the author(s) of a paper presented at the midyear meeting that is judged to best reflect the tradition of academic scholarship and be of relevance to problems facing the accounting profession and standard-setters.
Rules and Submission Procedures: After the meeting, the committee will email all meeting attendees to ask for nominations. A paper nominated shall be accompanied by a letter, preferably by a non-author of the paper, explaining the basis for the nomination. The Midyear Meeting BestPaper Award committee will then obtain copies of all nominated papers and determine the award winners.
Nomination: To submit a nomination, e-mail a pdf file of the nominated paper and an accompanying nomination letter to the Chair of the Midyear Meeting Best Paper Award Committee:
Chair of the FARS Midyear Meeting Best Paper Award Committee – Beth Blankespoor (blankbe@uw.edu)
Deadline for nominations: March 1