Ethics Link Library
Charge
- To encourage and support accounting ethics education and scholarship in universities, and more broadly, a sense of professionalism and ethical conduct in the practice and teaching of accounting. Specifically:
- Encourage the development of suitable forums for bringing to the attention to academics and students the centrality of professional and ethical conduct in an accounting career, including the desirability and practicability of incorporating appropriate teaching materials in an accounting curriculum.
- Plan the Symposium on Ethics Research in Accounting in conjunction with the AAA Annual Meeting.
Membership
- The committee consists of nine members, including the Chair, serving staggered two or three-year terms.
- Three committee members constitute the leadership group -- a Chair, Past Chair, and Chair-elect.
- One new appointee each year is named Chair-elect by the President-Elect and this person serves one year each as Chair-elect, Chair, and Past Chair of the committee (a three-year term in all).
- Four of the committee members are the co-chairs of the next two Symposia on Ethics Research in Accounting:
- Each year the Committee Chair selects one co-chair and the Chair of the Public Interest Section selects one co-chair for the succeeding Symposia.
- The President-Elect appoints one additional new committee member annually to a two- or three-year term.
Meetings
- The committee meets as needed.
Responsibilities
- Fulfill the committee charter as above.
- If the Chair has any questions about the charge or responsibilities of this committee, s/he should contact the Executive Director, the President, or the committee’s Board of Directors Liaison.
- The Chair will have the opportunity three times every term-year to prepare and send a progress report which will be available for the Board of Directors to review at their next meeting. This report should include accomplishments and suggested modifications and should be sent to the AAA President, the committee’s Board of Directors Liaison, and staff liaison, Barbara Gutierrez (barbara.gutierrez@aaahq.org).
Members
| Name / Affiliation | Contact | Term Length | Term Expires |
| Chair Don Finn University of North Texas | Don.Finn@unt.edu | 3 | 08/2016 |
| Chair-Elect Hubert Glover Drexel University | hdg26@drexel.edu | 3 | 08/2017 |
| Past Chair Ken Merchant University of Southern California | kmerchant@marshall.usc.edu | 3 | 08/2015 |
| Jane Cote Washington State University | janecote@vancouver.wsu.edu | 2 | 08/2015 |
| Cindy Sobieski Deloitte LLP | csobieski@deloitte.com | 3 | 08/2017 |
| Co-Chair, August 2015 Ethics Symposium Lucy Chen Villanova University *Chosen by Chair of P&E Committee | Lucy.chen@villanova.edu | 2 | 08/2015 |
| Co-Chair, August 2015 Ethics Symposium Amy Hageman Kansas State University *Chosen by the Chair of the Public Interest Section | HagemanA@ksu.edu | 2 | 08/2015 |
| Co-Chair Elect, August 2016 Ethics Symposium Diane Roberts University of San Francisco *Chosen by Chair of P&E Committee | robertsd@usfa.edu | 2 | 08/2016 |
| Co-Chair Elect, August 2016 Ethics Symposium Charles Stanley Baylor University *Chosen by the Chair of the Public Interest Section | charles_stanley@baylor.edu | 2 | 08/2016 |
| Board of Directors Liaison Gary Biddle University of Hong Kong | biddle@hku.hk | |