Award

Purpose

Criteria

Frequency

Eligibility

Nomination Process

Selection Committee

Nature of Award

Other

Outstanding Service to AJPT

To recognize outstanding service provided by members of the Audit Section to the Journal, typically in the role of manuscript referee.  

Factors considered in recognizing outstanding service include, but are not limited to, the quality of the review reports submitted, their timeliness in completing assigned reviews, the volume of reviews conducted, and their willingness to accept review requests.

One to three awards may be given annually and the recipient is announced at the Audit Section’s Mid-Year Meeting.

Members of the Audit Section who served as a reviewer for an AJPT submission during the calendar year under consideration.

The Senior Editor in consultation with the current Editors will nominate potential recipients. 

The award recipient is selected by the AJPT Senior Editor.

Plaque

None

BEST PHD STUDENT PAPER

BEST PAPER

Purpose

To recognize high quality submissions to the Auditing Section Midyear Meeting

To recognize high quality submissions to the Auditing Section Midyear Meeting

Criteria

• The paper can be single-authored, or co- authored. If the paper is co-authored, the PhD student must be the presenting author.

• The PhD student- author must be a PhD student as of the deadline for submitting the paper to the Midyear Meeting.

• The PhD student may be employed at an institution other than the PhD granting institution.

• The paper may be related to the dissertation, but does not have to be related to the dissertation.

Submissions for this award do not affect the eligibility of the student to also apply for the Outstanding Dissertation Award or to receive the Award for Best Paper submitted to the Auditing Section Midyear Meeting.

Specific criteria are left to the discretion of the Audit Midyear Planning Committee. Factors to be considered by the Audit Midyear Planning Committee might include reviewer comments and reviewer nominations.

The paper selected must be selected for presentation at a concurrent session.

Frequency

A maximum of one award may be made each year

A maximum of two awards may be made each year

Eligibility

Submission of paper to the Midyear Meeting.

Members of the Audit Midyear Meeting Planning Committee are not eligible for the award.

Submission of paper to the Midyear Meeting.

Members of the Audit Midyear Meeting Planning Committee are not eligible for the award. (As the Executive Committee members are not part of the selection or approval processes their paper submissions are eligible for the award.)

Nomination Process

When submitting a paper to the Midyear Meeting, the PhD student should indicate in the transmittal email that the paper is being submitted for consideration for the Best PhD Student Paper Award.

All papers submitted to the Midyear Meeting will be considered as nominations.

Selection Committee

Audit Midyear Meeting Planning Committee.
Co-chairs may form a committee, approved by the President, to handle the selection.

Audit Midyear Meeting Planning Committee.
Co-chairs may form a committee, approved by the President, to handle the selection.

Awards

The PhD student-author of the winning paper will receive a $1,000 monetary award. If the paper has more than one PhD student-author, the monetary award will be split among the student-authors. One student-author of the paper will receive reimbursement of travel costs to cover 3 hotel nights, meeting registration costs, and coach airfare up to $2,000.

Plaque.

Other

First Awarded at the 2009 Auditing Section Midyear Meeting

First Awarded at the 2010 Auditing Section Midyear Meeting