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Welcome to the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section
The FARS section aims to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of education, research, and professional practice.
The objective of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association is to give greater attention to financial accounting and reporting, and to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of education, research, and professional practice by: (1) disseminating and evaluating teaching methods and materials; (2) encouraging, facilitating, and publicizing research interests and projects; and (3) creating opportunities for interchange and cooperation between academics and practitioners.
- FARS scholarship for junior faculty to attend mid-year meeting
- FARS Best Paper Awarded. Winner: "Executive Overconfidence and the Slippery Slope to Financial Misreporting" by Catherine Schrand and Sarah L. Zechman.
- Professor Robert E. Verrecchia of the University of Pennsylvania is the latest recipient of the FARS Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Mid-Year Meeting Best Paper Awarded.
- The 2016 Midyear meeting will be in Newport Beach, CA., January 22-23, 2016.
- The FARS is proud to announce final approval of its new journal: The Journal of Financial Reporting JFR. Learn more...
- Forgot the CPE form for the FARS Midyear meeting? Click here CPE Verification Online Form.
2016 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Midyear Meeting
January 22-23, 2016
Newport Beach, CA
Archive of Past Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Midyear Meetings
2015 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Midyear Meeting
2014 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Midyear Meeting