Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education
Sponsored by the Institute of Management Accountants 
Call for Nominations – AAA MAS Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education
Purpose: The purpose of the award is to recognize and reward faculty members who have created or written innovative pedagogical practices or curriculum materials in the area of management accounting. The recipient is honored with a plaque and $2,000. The award is generously sponsored by the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA).
Criteria: Awards shall be made on the basis of several criteria. The innovation should be adaptable across a variety of educational context. The innovation should be broad in scope and should foster learning. The innovation should be low-cost to apply and adapt.
Eligibility: Individual faculty members, groups of faculty, or departments teaching or preparing materials to be used for managerial or cost accounting education are eligible. These parties can nominate themselves or others. Recipients do not have to be members of the AAA MAS to receive the plaque but must be members to receive the cash prize.
Nomination Procedures: Nominations should include a description of the innovation, sample materials where feasible, and evidence that the innovation has been tested and has been shown to have educational benefits. Nominations from the prior two years that did not receive the award can be resubmitted.
Award Committee and Submission Instructions: Nominations will be evaluated by a committee of faculty appointed by the MAS President. Nominations must be emailed by Sunday, March 15, 2026 to the Chair of the Award Committee: Serena Loftus, Kent State University (sloftus2@kent.edu).
Please include a contact person and address to whom the Award Committee can send requests for additional information.
Presentation of Award: The Award will be presented during the Management Accounting Section Business Meeting and Reception at the AAA Annual Meeting in August 2026.
Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Recipients
| 2025 | Serena Loftus, Sarah Shonka McCoy, Erick G. Valentine, Timothy D. West, “Labor Cost Visualization at Carescript: An Introductory Data Analytics Case for Management Accounting” Issues in Accounting Education (2023), 38 (4): 199–209 | |
| 2024 | Theresa Libby, Jason Schwebke, and Paul Goldwater, “Using Data Analytics to Evaluate the Drivers of Revenue: An Introductory Case Study Using Microsoft PowerPivot and PowerBI” | |
| 2023 | Jeremy Bentley, "Supplement to What Counts and What Gets Counted" | |
| 2022 | Dorothy Feldmand, Mahendra Gujarathi, and Harihan Ramasubramanian, "Leveraging Cost Accounting to Manage Earnings: Evidence from Toshiba's Semiconductor Business" | |
| 2021 | Jennifer M. Cainas, University of South Florida Juliana Kralik, University of South Florida “The Great Accounting Escape: A Teaching Tool for Relevant Costing and Short-Term Decisions” | |
| 2020 | Wendy Tietz, Jennifer Cainas, Tracie Miller-Nobles, "KAT Insurance: Introductory Accounting Data Analytics Cases Using Excel, Power BI and/or Tableau" | |
| 2019 | Bill Goldman, "Data Visualization: Teaching Big Data Analytics" | |
| 2018 | Kimberly Swanson Church, Kelvie Crabb, Gail Hoover King, "Launch Learning: A Compendium of Cases for Students to Create, Collaborate and Comprehend Managerial Accounting" | |
| 2017 | Poh-Sun Seow, Suay-Peng Wong, "Accounting Challenge App" | |
| 2016 | Wendy Tietz, "Accounting in the Headlines Blog" |
Journal
Journal of Management Accounting Research
The mission of the Journal of Management Accounting Research (JMAR) is to advance the theory and practice of management accounting through publication of high-quality applied and theoretical research, using any well-executed research method. JMAR serves the global community of scholars and practitioners whose work impacts or is informed by the role that accounting information plays in decision-making and performance measurement within organizations.