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    The 2016 Midyear Meeting of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) will be held in Newport Beach, California, at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel & Spa on January 22-23, 2016.

  • Call for Submissions

    We will issue a formal call for submissions in early July when we open the submission system. The submission deadline will be September 8, 2015.

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Call for Submissions

Please Note: Submissions are Closed


We are pleased to announce that the 2016 Midyear Meeting of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) will be held in Newport Beach, California at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel & Spa on January 22-23, 2016. We welcome submissions of high-quality academic papers that will allow us to compile a top-notch research program.

The deadline for submission is Tuesday, September 8, 2015. Submission of papers is a two-step process:

  1. A non-refundable submission fee of $50 is required — click here to pay the submission fee.
  2. To submit your paper (or to volunteer as a reviewer/discussant/moderator), please CLICK HERE to access the system using your AAA member ID and password. If you have forgotten your AAA member ID/password, click here to retrieve them. If you do not have a AAA member ID/password, please click here to obtain AAA login credentials. Then create an account in this system, using your AAA login credentials. If you have difficulty logging in, please contact Suzanne Mullinnix suzanne@aaahq.org for assistance.

A blind review process will be used to select research papers to be presented at the Concurrent Research Sessions during the conference.