Impact on Management Accounting Practice Award
Sponsored by the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants
Purpose: This award recognizes the single research article that is judged to have the greatest potential impact on managerial accounting practice. The author(s) of the winning research article will receive a plaque and $2,000. The award is generously sponsored by the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants.
Eligibility: The research article must have been published within the past five years. For the 2023 award, the paper must have been published between August 1, 2017 and July 31, 2022.
The author(s) of the winning research article must be member(s) of the AAA Management Accounting Section at the time of the award.
Award Committee and Nomination Instructions: The research article may be submitted by the author(s) or by others and should be accompanied by a short statement stating reasons why it should be considered for the award.
By October 1, 2022, email the research article and statement to the Chair of the Award Committee, Clara Chen ( cxchen@illinois.edu ). The selection committee will be composed of practitioner representatives nominated by the sponsoring organizations.
Presentation of Award: The award will be presented at the Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting at Emory University in January 2023.
Impact on Management Accounting Practice Prior Recipients
| 2021 | Ken Merchant, Carolyn Stringer, and Paul Shantapriyan "Setting Financial Performance Thresholds, Targets, and Maximums in Bonus Plans", Journal of Management Accounting Research, 2018 James Hesford, Nicolas Mangin, and Mina Pizzini "Using Fixed Wages for Management Control: An Intra-firm Test of the Effect of Relative Compensation on Performance", Journal of Management Accounting Research, 2020 |
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| 2020 | Laura Wang, Steven J. Kachelmeier, Michael G. Williamson, "Incentivizing the Creative Process: From Initial Quantity to Eventual Creativity", The Accounting Review, March 2019 | |
| 2019 | Christopher Inner and Jeremy Michels "Risk‐based forecasting and planning and management earnings forecasts" | |
| 2018 | Mark Young, Fei Du, Kelsey Dworkis, Karl Olsen "It’s All about All of Us: The Rise of Narcissism and Its Implications for Management Control System Research", Journal of Management Accounting Research, 2016 | |
| 2017 | Bryan R. Stikeleather "When do employers benefit from offering workers a financial reward for reporting internal misconduct?" Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2016 | |
| 2016 | Anne Farrell, Susan Krische, Karen Sedatole "Employees’ Subjective Valuations of Their Stock Options: Evidence on the Distribution of Valuations and the Use of Simple Anchors" Contemporary Accounting Research, 2011 | |
| 2015 | Scott Jackson, Timothy Keune, Leigh Salzsieder "Debt, equity, and capital investment" Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2013 | |
| 2014 | Co-Winners Ramji Balakrishnan, Stephen Hansen, Eva Labro "Evaluating heuristics used when designing product costing systems" Management Science, 2011 Jongwoon (Willie) Choi, Gary Hecht, and William Tayler "Lost in translation: The effects of incentive compensation on strategy surrogation" |
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| 2013 | Ramji Balakrishnan, Eva Labro, and K. Sivaramakrishnan "Product costs as decision aids: An analysis of alternative approaches (Parts 1 and 2) Accounting Horizons, 2012 | |
| 2012 | Co-Winners Scott Jackson "The effects of firms’ depreciation method choice on managers’ capital investment decisions" The Accounting Review, 2008 Alexander Bruggen, Ranjani Krishnan, and Karen Sedatole "Drivers and consequences of short-term production decisions" Contemporary Accounting Research, 2011 |
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| 2011 | Eddy Cardinaels and Eva Labro "Measurement error in time-driven costing" The Accounting Review, 2008 | |
| 2010 | Shannon Anderson and Henri Dekker "Management control for market transactions" Management Science, 2005 | |
| 2009 | Janek Ratnatunga, Norman Gray and Kashi Balachandran "Valuation and reporting of strategic capabilities" |
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Dear MAS members, As the incoming Senior Editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research (JMAR) for the 2022–2024 term, I am excited to announce the editorial team that will serve during my term. We will have a group of 13 Editors who are distinguished scholars ready to work with you, current and future authors and referees, on publishing high-quality and relevant management accounting research. We will also have a great new Editorial Advisory and Review Board with 44 accomplished members.
Continuing JMAR’s mission to promote diverse topics and methodological perspectives, the new editorial team covers all methods of management accounting research. Close to 50% of the team is based outside of the US, which also continues the tradition of a wide geographical representation.
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