Objectives
The Strategic and Emerging Technologies Section shall strive to stimulate and improve the research in, teaching of, and application of artificial intelligence methods and techniques in accounting. Specific objectives include:
- To encourage research in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies by identifying areas of accounting in need of exploration with the methods of these two disciplines.
- To facilitate the exchange of ideas and findings in SET technologies among accounting scholars.
- To provide a forum for presentation and discussion of reports on SET research, practice and standards.
- To publish a journal (Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, JETA) that contributes to theory, research, practice, and education in the areas of SET.
- To provide a forum for presentation and discussion of ideas and developments related to SET curricula and education.
- To encourage educational innovation and to improve accounting instruction with the application of AI-based methods and tools, and other emerging technologies to accounting education.
- To provide opportunities for interchange of ideas in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies among accounting academics and business practitioners in public, corporate, and not-for-profit accounting
President
Daniel O'Leary
University of Southern California
Past President
Deniz Appelbaum
Montclair State University
Vice President
Vice President of External Relations
Deniz Appelbaum
Montclair State University
Vice President-Academic
Juergen Sidgman
University of Alaska-Anchorage
Secretary/Treasurer
Huijue Kelly Duan
Sacred Heart University
Council Representative
Robyn Raschke
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Chairperson
AAA Global Connect SET Program Committee - Chair
Arion Cheong
Stevens Institute of Technology
2026 AIS/SET New Scholars Consortium-Co-Chair
Scott Summers
Brigham Young University
2026 SET Section Midyear Meeting Program Chair
Nuriddin Tojiboyev
The College of New Jersey