2025 Annual Meeting Preliminary Program

All Events Will Take Place at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. 
Friday, August 1, 2025
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Registration

Member Services/Help Desk

Service Project

Saturday, August 2, 2025
7:00 am – 6:00 pm

Registration

Member Services/Help Desk

Service Project

7:00 am – 6:00 pm

Registration

Member Services/Help Desk

Service Project

8:00 am – 5:30 pm

Pre-Conference Workshops

8:00 am – 7:30 pm

Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting (CTLA)

Sunday, August 3, 2025
7:00 am – 6:00 pm

Registration

Member Services/Help Desk

Service Project

8:00 am – 1:00 pm

Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting (CTLA)

8:00 am – 5:30 pm

Pre-Conference Workshops

8:00 am – 4:45 pm

Ethics Research Symposium

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Accounting Exemplar Award Luncheon
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Two-Year College Section Lunch
12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Career Center

3:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Exhibit Hall

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Leadership in Accounting Education Section Reception
(Section membership required)
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Early Bird Reception (badge required)
 

Monday, August 4, 2025

7:00 am – 8:15 am

Section Breakfasts 
(Pre-Purchase Required for Breakfast)

Strategic and Emerging Technologies Section

7:00 am – 5:00 pm

Registration

Member Services/Help Desk

Service Project

7:30 am - 12:30 pm Career Center
8:00 am – 12:15 pm

Exhibit Hall

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Opening Plenary Session
Insights from 100 years of The Accounting Review

Speakers: Michelle Hanlon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eva Labro, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mark W. Nelson, Cornell University
Richard Sloan, University of Southern California

 

Award Presentations to include:

The AAA/J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize

Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award (sponsored by the Deloitte Foundation)

9:45 am – 10:15 am

Coffee Break

10:15 am – 11:45 am

Concurrent Sessions

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Section Luncheons
(Pre-Purchase Required for Lunch)

Government and Nonprofit Section

International Accounting Section 

1:00 pm - 6:00 pm Career Center
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Exhibit Hall

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Section Business Meetings

Concurrent Sessions

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Effective Learning Strategies 

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Coffee Break

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

 

 

 

 

Concurrent Sessions

Section Business Meetings and Networking Receptions (Section membership required):

American Taxation Association Business Meeting and Networking Reception

Auditing Section Business Meeting and Networking Reception

Management Accounting Section Business Meeting and Networking Reception

6:00 pm

Welcome Reception

TAR 100th Celebration

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Section Business Meeting and Networking Dessert Reception
(Section membership required)

Dinner on Your Own

Tuesday, August 5, 2025
7:00 am - 8:15 am

Section Breakfast with Business Meeting
(Pre-Purchase Required for Breakfast)

Forensic Accounting Section 

7:30 am - 12:30 pm Career Center
8:00 am – 12:15 pm

Exhibit Hall

8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Registration

Member Services/Help Desk

Service Project

8:30 am – 9:45 am

Plenary Session

Presidential Scholar: Dana R. Hermanson, Kennesaw State University
Expanding Our Insights, Audiences, and Impact

Presidential Scholar: Kathryn Kadous, Emory University

Award Presentation to include:

Accounting Hall of Fame Inductions
 
Outstanding Accounting Educator Award (sponsored by PwC US Group LLC)

Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award

Outgoing Editor Recognition - Issues in Accounting Education

9:45 am – 10:15 am

Coffee Break

9:45 am – 11:00 am

Emerging and Innovative Research

10:15 am – 11:45 am

Concurrent Sessions

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

AAA Luncheon

Speaker: Barry Melancon

Award Presentation to include:

Outstanding Service Award

Lifetime Service Award

Innovation in Accounting Education Award (sponsored by the Ernst & Young Foundation)

Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award

Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award

Seminal Contributions to Accounting Literature Award

AAA-AACSB-RRBM Award for Research Impacting Societal Challenges (sponsored by AACSB)

1:00 pm - 6:00 pm Career Center
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Exhibit Hall

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Concurrent Sessions

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Research Interaction Forum 

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Coffee Break

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Concurrent Sessions

Dinner on Your Own

Wednesday, August 6, 2025
8:00 am – 11:00 am

Member Services/Help Desk

Service Project

8:00 am – 2:00 pm

Registration

8:30 am – 9:45 am

Plenary Session

Speaker: Mark S. Beasley, North Carolina State,
President-Elect, American Accounting Association

Award Presentation to include:

Competitive Manuscript Award 

The Accounting Review Outstanding Reviewer Award

Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award (sponsored by Association of International Certified Professional Accountants) 

AICPA Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award

AAA – AICPA – Bea Sanders EDGE in Teaching Award (sponsored by Association of International Certified Professional Accountants) 

AAA – George Krull Edge in Teaching Award 

Beta Alpha Psi Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award

Outgoing Board of Directors and Council Chair Recognitions

9:45 am – 10:15 am

Coffee Break

10:15 am – 11:45 am

Concurrent Sessions

10:15 am – 5:30 pm

Faculty-Student Collaborations in Accounting (FASTCA)

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Concurrent Sessions

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Coffee Break

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Concurrent Sessions

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Closing Reception