Outstanding Instructional Contribution Award | American Accounting Association

Meetings

Meetings

Our 2026 TLC Section Midyear Meeting......

Stay tuned for more information posted here!

MEETINGS ARCHIVE

CLICK HERE
About
About
Mission and Vision

The Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Section is dedicated to the continual improvement of accounting education, especially through the development of relevant and innovative curricula, a renewed emphasis of effective and efficient instruction, and the exploration of knowledge-organization issues related to accounting programs.

Learn More

Governance

Bylaws

Officers and Committees

Strategic Plan Overview

Volunteer Opportunities

Enhance your career and engage with the AAA by volunteering

Click to Volunteer
News
News
News Items

Winter 2021 Newsletter

Newsletter Archive
Join
Join
Join the TLC Section

The Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Section is dedicated to the continual improvement of accounting education, especially through the development of relevant and innovative curricula, a renewed emphasis of effective and efficient instruction, and the exploration of knowledge-organization issues related to accounting programs.

Join Now

Join the AAA

Take advantage of all the benefits that AAA membership has to offer:

Access to the Digital Library where all AAA publications are searchable and downloadable.

Reduced member pricing for article submission fees to select AAA journals.

Enhance your career with our online Career Center. Members can post one resume for free.

Receive registration discounts on many of our meetings and low cost Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits.

The opportunity to volunteer for Association-wide committees, serve in Section and Region leadership roles, and network and connect with colleagues at Association meetings.

Join the AAA

To join the TLC Section, you must be a current member of the American Accounting Association.

Click Here - Become an AAA and TLC Section member or renew your membership

Add TLC Section membership to your current AAA membership:

Membership Change form - Download and complete the form.

Email completed form to ar@aaahq.org.

If you have questions about membership click here: info@aaahq.org and your email will go directly to the AAA Member Services.
Awards

Awards

2025 Awards

TLC Hall of Honor Inductee
Generously sponsored by KPMG, LLP

Markus Ahrens, St. Louis Community College

TLC Outstanding Accounting Education Research Award
Generously sponsored by EY

Natalie T. Churyk, Northern Illinois University, Tim V. Eaton, Miami University, Linda J. Matuszewski, Northern Illinois University
Accounting Education Literature Review (2023), Journal of Accounting Education (June 2024), Vol. 67, pp. 1-20

TLC Outstanding Instructional Contribution in Accounting
Generously sponsored by Deloitte

Christine A. Botosan, FASB, Mary S. Hill, Kennesaw State University, Gary K. Taylor, The University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa
Engaging Students in the Standard Setting Process, Issues in Accounting Education (February 2024), Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 47-68

Award Information and Archives

Outstanding Research in Accounting Education

Outstanding Instructional Contribution Award

The Gail Hoover King / PwC Best Teaching Practices Award

Section Hall of Honor Award

Prior Award Winners
Resources

Resources

President's Letter

Click Here to view the President's letter.

PaperPal Preflight

The AAA has collaborated with PaperPal Preflight to provide a manuscript screening tool, which instantly checks your manuscript, helps you address common errors and omissions and performs a language quality review.

Learn More

Author Services

The AAA, in partnership with Editage, offers pre-submission manuscript preparation support services to authors. Editage’s highly qualified and experienced publication experts in relevant fields provide editing, translation, and publication assistance at each stage of the submission process. Post-review support is also available to help authors feel more confident in their manuscript revisions.

Get Support

TEACHING, LEARNING AND CURRICULUM SECTION AWARDS

OUTSTANDING INSTRUCTIONAL CONTRIBUTION AWARD

To encourage and recognize excellence in the development of original instructional materials, the Teaching Learning and Curriculum (TLC) Section seeks nominations (including self-nominations) for the 2026 Outstanding Instructional Contribution. Original material in the field of accounting published in 2025 in a refereed journal is eligible for the award. At least one of the authors of a nominated publication must be a TLC member.

Please submit nominations to Bambi Hora, Award Committee Co-Chair at bhora@uco.edu.

All Nominations are due by Friday, April 10, 2026..

Thank you to Deloitte for sponsoring this award!

Deloitte

2025:
Christine A. Botosan, FASB, Mary S. Hill, Kennesaw State University, Gary K. Taylor, The University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa
"Engaging Students in the Standard Setting Process"

2024:
Katherine Campbell, University of North Dakota and Duane Helloid, University of North Dakota “Ann Hopkins and PwC: Critically Analyzing Culture, leadership, Policies, and Reporting for Diversity and Inclusion”, Issues in Accounting Education Vol.38, No. 1, February 2023, pp.185-199

2023:
Megan F. Hess, Washington and Lee University
“The Fyre Fraud: A Case Exploring the Dark Triad Personality", Issues in Accounting Education (August 2022), Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 125-140

Webinar and Other Program Materials

Excel-Based Active-Learning for the Managerial Accounting Course (11/10/2017)

The Accounting Educator

Archived Issues

Issues prior to Winter 2020

Presidential Round Table Interviews

Video: Presidential Round Table Interviews