Teaching Conferences and Symposia
MAS Mid-year meeting January 2020
CGMA Teaching Symposium Session I
Critical Thinking and Data Analytics
Margarita Maria Lenk, Colorado State University
2019 J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize Winner, Professor Lenk, will quickly review the essential cognitive ingredients of critical thinking and how critical thinking builds accounting students’ professional and data analytics skills. She will then lead the room in guided steps for designing managerial accounting learning experiences that contain true critical thinking elements. The objective is to optimize professional critical thinking skills by encouraging student creativity and problem solving science through a student-reflection developmental feedback/grading rubric. Best project/case/assignment ideas from the group will be shared to build a critical thinking community. Come ready with your questions and ideas!
CGMA Teaching Symposium Session II
Current Hot Topics in Teaching Managerial Accounting
Orest Fiume, The Wiremold Company, Retired CFO
Lean Accounting Advocate Orest Fiume will walk attendees through ways to adapt the managerial accounting curriculum to the changing needs of manufacturing businesses adopting an environment of Continuous Improvement. Attendees will learn how to decrease content on standard costing and increase content on Lean Accounting
Ann C. Dzuranin, Northern Illinois University
Jim Hesford, University of Lethbridge
Professors Dzuranin and Hesford will present a case for using data visualization as a way to develop, evaluate, and report performance measures. Using anonymized data from a major hotel chain, students use the balanced scorecard framework to develop appropriate performance measures for each of the four perspectives. Students then use data visualization to evaluate the hotel chain at various levels of aggregation (hotel, region and firm). Students are also asked to develop performance targets for the next year.
CGMA Teaching Symposium Session IV
Being Productive Faculty Members, Including Balancing Teaching and Research
Moderators: Serena Loftus, Tulane University
Matthew Sooy, University of Western Ontario
Panelists: W. Glenn Rowe; University of Western Ontario
Karen Sedatole; Emory University
Alan Webb, University of Waterloo
Professors Karen Sedatole, Alan Webb, and Glenn Rowe will discuss balancing research with teaching. The panel will first offer their experiences and strategies for balancing research and teaching and will then respond to audience members Q&A. Prepared topics include advice and perspective, bringing research into the classroom, signs that a change needs to be made, and transitioning within and between schools.
IMA/MAS Case Conference, November 2019
IECJ Panel: How to Get Cases Published
Panelists: Laurie Burney, Baylor University
Kip Krumweide, IMA
Jason Porter, Washington State University
Margaret Shackell, Ithaca College
Workshop: Case Method Teaching Accounting
Luann Lynch, University of Virginia
Case session 1: Red River Lodge
James Hesford, University of Lethbridge
Thomas Calderon, University of Akron
Mina Pizzini, Texas State University
Michael J. Turner, The University of Queensland
Case session 2: Small Businesses and Trust: A Payroll Embezzlement Case
Tina Rolling, Alma College
Case session 3: Allocating University Administrative Costs in a Responsibility-Centered Management (RCM) Model
Marvin Bouillon, University of Southern Mississippi
Clemense Ehoff, Central Washington University
Kenneth Smith, Central Washington University
Accounting Analytics Case: Huskie Motor Corp Computer Software & Applications
Ann Dzuranin, Northern Illinois University
A Letter from Our Section President Karen Sedatole, Emory University
Dear Management Accounting Section (MAS) Members.
Welcome to the 2024-2025 academic year!
Thank you to everyone who was able to join us in Washington, DC for the 2024 AAA Annual Meeting. We had a terrific program of over 20 MAS concurrent sessions and a new reception format for our annual business meeting. Who doesn’t like a glass of wine to go along with financial and membership reports?! A huge thank you to all of you who submitted papers and to the over 100 volunteers who reviewed, discussed, and moderated for the meeting! And, of course, a special thank you to the MAS track organizers, Curtis Hall and Michael Majerczyk. For those of you who were unable to attend, here is a highlight of the awards presented to MAS members during the Annual Meeting:
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. Settings may include profit and not-for profit organizations, service, retail and manufacturing organizations and domestic, foreign, and multinational firms. JMAR furthermore seeks to advance an understanding of management accounting in its broader context, such as issues related to the interface between internal and external reporting or taxation. New theories, topical areas, and research methods, as well as original research with novel implications to improve practice and disseminate the best managerial accounting practices are encouraged.
JMAR publishes 3 issues per year in Spring, Summer, and Fall, and is indexed in Scopus and ESCI.