2018 Annual Meeting Partnership Opportunities
The American Accounting Association Annual Meeting will be held in National Harbor, MD (Washington, DC). August 4-8 at the Gaylord National Resort. With 3,000+ attendees expected, it is a great opportunity to increase your visibility to our members and to be recognized as an important partner to the American Accounting Association. All of our sponsor, exhibitor, and advertising options provide prominent access to accounting education professionals.
We invite you to become an Annual Meeting partner and receive recognition before, during, and after the event. We have a great program planned with world-class experts and speakers in the field of accounting and research along with approximately 40 pre-conference workshops and symposia and over 350 concurrent sessions and panels
We hope you will join us in National Harbor to explore opportunities for accounting and the academy to shape the future and think about "Pathways to a Sustainable Future".
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The AAA is proud to announce the following winners of the 2017 awards which will be presented at the Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA in August.
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
(To be awarded at the Tuesday AAA Luncheon)
David A. Wood, Brigham Young University
“Comparing the Publication Process in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, Psychology, and the Natural Sciences.” Accounting Horizons, September 2016, Volume 30, No. 3, pp. 341-361.
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Competitive Manuscript Award
(To be awarded at the Wednesday Plenary)
Daniel Saavedra, UCLA “Renegotiation and the Choice of Covenants in Debt Contracts”
Yiwei Dou, New York University “The Spillover Effect of Consolidating Securitization Entities on Small Business Lending”
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Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award
(To be awarded at the Tuesday Plenary)
Dan Amiram, Columbia University Business School
Zahn Bozanic, The Ohio State University
Ethan Rouen, Columbia University Business School
“Financial Statement Errors: Evidence from the Distributional Properties of Financial Statement Numbers.” Review of Accounting Studies, December 2015, Volume 20, Issue 4, pp. 1540-1593.
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Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Literature Award
(To be awarded at the Wednesday Plenary)
Linda Smith Bamber, University of Georgia
John (Xuefeng) Jiang, Michigan State University
Isabel Yanyan Wang, Michigan State University
“What’s My Style? The Influence of Top Managers on Voluntary Corporate Financial Disclosure.” The Accounting Review, July 2010, Volume 85, No. 4, pp. 1131-1162.
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Innovation in Accounting Education Award (sponsored by the Ernst & Young Foundation)
(To be awarded at the Wednesday Plenary)
Gráinne Oates, Swinburne University of Technology
Dan Hunter, Swinburne Law School
“Quitch”
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Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
(To be awarded at the Tuesday AAA Luncheon)
Derek K. Oler, Texas Tech University
William R. Pasewark, Texas Tech University
“How to Review a Paper.” Issues in Accounting Education, May 2016, Volume 31, No. 2, pp. 219-234.
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Lifetime Service Award
(To be awarded at the Wednesday Plenary)
Stephen A. Zeff, Rice University
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Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award (sponsored by AICPA)
(To be awarded at the Tuesday Plenary)
Panos N. Patatoukas, University of California, Berkeley
“Customer-Base Concentration: Implications for Firm Performance and Capital Markets.” The Accounting Review, March 2012, Volume 87, No. 2, pp. 363-392.
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Outstanding Accounting Educator Award (sponsored by the PricewaterhouseCoopers Foundation)
(To be awarded at the Tuesday Plenary)
Mary E. Barth, Stanford University
Karen V. Pincus, University of Arkansas
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As Thought Leaders in Accounting, the AAA is pleased to recognize the contributions our members make to the accounting academic community.
Be sure to congratulate your colleagues as their awards are presented at the Annual Meeting Plenaries and AAA Lunches.
Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award
(To be awarded at the Tuesday AAA Luncheon)
Michael S. Drake, Brigham Young University
Phillip J. Quinn, University of Washington
Jacob R. Thornock, Brigham Young University
“Who Uses Financial Statements? A Demographic Analysis of Financial Statement Downloads from EDGAR.” Accounting Horizons, September 2017, Volume 31, No. 3, pp. 55-68.
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Competitive Manuscript Award
(To be awarded at the Wednesday Plenary)
Mario Schabus, The University of Melbourne, “Do Director Networks Help Managers Plan and Forecast Better?”
Benjamin Yost, Boston College, “Locked-in: The Effect of CEOs’ Capital Gains Taxes on Corporate Risk-Taking”
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Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award
(sponsored by the Deloitte Foundation)
(To be awarded at the Tuesday Plenary)
Susan Scholz, The University of Kansas
“Financial Restatement Trends in the United States: 2003-2012.” Center for Audit Quality, July 2014
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Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award
(To be awarded at the Wednesday Plenary)
Feng Li, Jiao Tong University
"Annual report readability, current earnings, and earnings persistence." Journal of Accounting and Economics, August 2008, Volume 45, No. 2-3, pp. 221-247
and
"The Information Content of Forward-Looking Statements in Corporate Filings - A Naive Bayesian Machine Learning Approach." Journal of Accounting Research, December 2010, Volume 48, No. 5, pp. 1049-1102.
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Innovation in Accounting Education Award
(sponsored by the Ernst & Young Foundation)
(To be awarded at the Wednesday Plenary)
Ann Dzuranin, Northern Illinois University
“Data & Analytics in Accounting: Innovation and Impact in Accountancy Education”
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Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award
(To be awarded at the Tuesday AAA Luncheon)
Allen D. Blay, Florida State University
M. G. Fennema, Florida State University
“Are Accountants Made or Born? An Analysis of Self-Selection into the Accounting Major and Performance in Accounting Courses and on the CPA Exam.” Issues in Accounting Education, August 2017, Volume 32, No. 3, pp. 33-50.
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Lifetime Service Award
(To be awarded at the Wednesday Plenary)
Gary J. Previts, Case Western Reserve University
G. Peter Wilson, Boston College
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Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award (sponsored by AICPA)
(To be awarded at the Monday Plenary)
Urooj Khan, Columbia University
Bin Li, The University of Texas at Dallas
Shivaram Rajgopal, Columbia University
Mohan Venkatachalam, Duke University
Do the FASB's Standards Add Shareholder Value?” Accepted by The Accounting Review, June 2017 as Online Early-Preprint of Accepted Manuscript.
Publishing update: This paper has since been included in the following issue: The Accounting Review, March 2018, Volume 93, No. 2, pp. 209-247.
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Outstanding Accounting Educator Award
(sponsored by the PricewaterhouseCoopers Foundation)
(To be awarded at the Tuesday Plenary)
Mahendra R. Gujarathi, Bentley University
Jan R. Williams, The University of Tennessee
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Outstanding Service Award
(To be awarded at the Tuesday AAA Luncheon)
Guido L. Geerts, University of Delaware