The following awards were presented to the recipients at the various Section meetings at the AAA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, which was held August 9-14, 2019. Congratulations to all of the winners!
Academy of Accounting Historians Section
2019 Thomas J. Burns Biographical Research Award
C. Richard Baker, Adelphi University
2018 Best Paper Award for Outstanding Contribution to The Accounting Historians Journal
Maria Ryabova, Lomonosov Moscow State University
2019 Barbara D. Merino Award for Excellence in Accounting History Publication
Kelly L. Williams, Middle Tennessee State University and Howard J. Lawrence, University of Mississippi
2019 Margit F. Shoenfeld and Hanns Martin W. Shoenfeld Scholarship in Accounting History
Joy M. Gray, Bentley University,
Jonida Carungu, University of Siena and Alessia Patuelli, University of Lucca
2019 Alfred R. Roberts Memorial Research Award
Brandi Holley, University of Mississippi
2019 Innovation in Accounting History Education Award
Edward Mendlowitz
2017-2019 Service Award
Jennifer Reynolds-Moehrle, President
Accounting Information Systems Section
AIS Notable Contributions to the Literature Award
Elaine G. Mauldin and Linda V. Ruchala
“Towards a meta-theory of accounting information systems”
AIS Outstanding Dissertation Award
James Zhang
“Three Essays on Digital Annual Reports for Nonprofessional Investors: The Impacts of Presentation Formats on Investment-Related Judgments and Decisions”
AIS Best Paper Award for the Journal of Information Systems
Julia Higgs, Robert Pinsker, Thomas Smith and George Young
"The Relationship between Boar-Level Technology Committees and Reported Security Breaches"
AIS Outstanding Service Award – President
David A. Wood
AIS Outstanding Service Award – Journal of Information Systems Conference Chair 2019
Jennifer Riley and Rob Pinsker
AIS Outstanding Service Award - 2019 Annual Meeting Coordinator
Jian Cao
AIS Outstanding Service Award – Reviewer for the Journal of Information Systems
Vern Richardson
American Taxation Association Section
ATA/PricewatershouseCoopers Outstanding Tax Dissertation Award
Russ Hamilton
“New Evidence on Investors' Valuation of Deferred Tax Liabilities”
ATA/Deloitte Teaching Innovation Award
Christine Cheng, University of Mississippi, Pradeep Sapkota, University of North Texas, and Amy J. N. Yurko, Duquesne University
“A Case Study of Effective Tax Rates Using Data Analytics”
ATA Service Award – President
Kimberly Key
ATA Outstanding Service Award
Lil Mills
ATA Outstanding Manuscript Award
David A. Guenther, Brian M. Williams, and Steven R. Matsunaga
“Is Tax Avoidance Related to Firm Risk?”
ATA Marty Escoffier Hospitality Award
Pete Lisowsky
Vice President
2019 ATA Midyear Meeting Chair
Journal of the American Taxation Association – 2019 Best Discussant Award
Michael P. Donohoe
Jaron H. Wilde and Ryan Wilson
“Perspectives on Corporate Tax Planning: Observations from the Past Decade”
Journal of Legal Tax Research – 2019 Outstanding Paper Award
Brett L. Bueltel and A. Kelly Walker
“A Legal Analysis of State Tax Policy for Online Sales: The Recipe from Direct Marketing”
Auditing Section
Auditing Section Leadership, Initiative, and Service Award
Rick Hatfield, President (2017-2018)
John King
Auditing Section Outstanding Service – Treasurer
Chad Stefaniak (2017-2019)
Auditing Section Outstanding Service – 2019 Annual Meeting Program Committee Co-Directors
Scott Bronson, Tamara Lambert, Joe Schroeder, and Karen Ton
Diversity Section
DIV Section Excellence in Service Award - Treasurer
Robert Marley, University of Tampa
DIV Section Excellence in Service Award - 2019 Annual Meeting Chair
Michael Kimbrough, University of Maryland
Nerissa Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
DIV Section Innovation in Research Award - In Recognition of Your Award Winning Documentary Examining Government Fraud
Kelly Richmond Pope, DePaul University
Financial Accounting and Reporting Section
FARS Distinguished Service Award
Lisa Koonce - President-Elect, President, and Past President (2016-2019)
FARS Distinguished Service Award
Brian Bushee - Council Representative (2017-2019)
FARS Section Service Award
Mark Kohlbeck, Secretary-Treasurer (2017-2019)
FARS Section Service Award
John Hepp, Vice President - Practice (2017-2019)
FARS Best Dissertation Award 2019
Stephen Glaeser, University of Pennsylvania
FARS Best Dissertation Supervision Award 2019
Christopher Armstrong and Robert W. Holthausen (for co-supervising Stephen Glaeser)
FARS Best Paper Award - Contemporary Accounting Research
Michael S. Drake, Darren T. Roulstone, and Jacob R. Thornock
“The Determinates and Consequences of Information Acquisition via EDGAR ”
“How Does Financial-Reporting Regulation Affect Market-Wide Resource Allocation?”
FARS Outstanding Service – 2019 National Meeting Co-Coordinators
Rebecca Files and Marcus Kirk
FARS Outstanding Service – 2015-2019 FARS Steering Board
Brad Badertscher, Linda Myers, Jake Thornock, and Frank Zhang
FARS Lifetime Achievement Award - 2019
Daniel W. Collins
FARS Outstanding Service Award – 2019 Journal of Financial Reporting Editor
Anne Beatty
Forensic Accounting Section
FA Outstanding Leadership, Initiative, and Service Award
Ronald J. Daigle, President (2017-2019)
FA Dissertation Award 2019
Don Ariail
“The Person-Organization Fit of Accounting Students: Long-Term Value Change Following an Education Intervention”
Thomas R. Weirich
“AIM Corporation: A Business Fraud Case Study”
FA Research Paper Award 2019
Jessen L. Hobson, William J. Mayew, Mark E. Peecher, and Mohan Venkatachalam
“Improving Experienced Auditors' Detection of Deception in CEO Narratives”
Charles D. Bailey (2014-2018)
Gender Issues/Worklife Balance Section
GIWB 2019 Enduring Lifetime Contribution Award
Mary Fischer
GIWB 2019 KPMG Outstanding Dissertation Award
Dr. Donald L. Ariail
“The person-organization fit of accounting students: long-term value change following an education intervention”
Yugi Gu and Connie X. Mao
“Local Religious Belief and Workplace Safety”
GIWB 2019 KPMG Outstanding Published Manuscript Award
Dr. Hannah Michelle Russell and Dr. Lawrence Murphy Smith
"How Corporate Internal Auditors can Advance Gender Equality"
GIWB Outstanding Service Award – President
Dr. Donald L. Ariail
Dr. James J. Benjamin
Government and Nonprofit Section
GNP Distinguished Service Award
Tammy Waymire, President 2018-2019
GNP 2019 Enduring Lifetime Contribution Award
Mary Fischer
GNP 2019 Annual Meeting Best Paper Award
Qianhua Ling and Joseph Wall
“Lowering Standards: Unintended Consequences of 990-N and Value Congruence on Cost Shifting”
GNP 2019 Outstanding Dissertation Award
Julie Mercado
“Donor Decision-Making Involving Construal-Level Theory and Not-for-Profit Accounting Performance Measures”
International Accounting Section
IAS Leadership, Initiative, and Service
Steve Lin, President 2018-2019
IAS 2019 Ian Hague Award for Outstanding Service to the Section
Teresa Conover
IAS 2019 Outstanding International Accounting Dissertation Award
Aaron Yoon
“Navigating Weak Institutions through Foreign Brokers”
IAS 2019 Outstanding International Accounting Educator Award
Wim A. Van der Stede
IAS 2019 Annual Program Co-Chairs
Pietro Bianchi and Wendy Wilson
IAS 2019 Journal of International Accounting Research (JIAR) Best Paper Award
Christof Beuselinck, Inder K. Khurana, Philip P. M. Joos, and Sofie van der Meulen
"Which Analysts Benefitted Most from Mandatory IFRS Adoption in Europe?" Volume 16, No. 3, 2017
IAS 2019 Journal of International Accounting Research (JIAR) Best Reviewer Award
Weishi Jia, Christo Karuna, and Aaron Yoon
Joint International Conference of the Journal of International Accounting Research (JIAR) and University of Adelaide, Australia (2017)
Paul Coram, Chair
Joint International Conference of the Journal of International Accounting Research (JIAR) and Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy (2018)
Marco Fasan, Chair
Management Accounting Section
MAS and IMA Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019
Carolyn Deller
“Beyond Performance: When Potential Matters to Employee Career Outcomes”
MAS and IMA Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019 – Supervision
Dennis Campbell and Tatiana Sandino for supervising Carolyn Deller
MAS and IMA Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019 – Runner Up
Joseph Burke
“The Role of Social Bonds in Understanding the Pre- and Post - Recognition Effects of Recognition Visibility”
MAS and IMA Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019 – Supervision (Runner Up)
Gary Hecht for supervising Joseph Burke
MAS Leadership, Initiative, and Service Award
Anne Farrell, President (2018-2019)
MAS Service Award
Mina Pizzini, Secretary-Treasurer (2017-2019)
MAS 2019 AAA Annual Meeting Outstanding Management Accounting Paper Award
Gerardo Perez Cavazos and Jonas Heese
“When the boss comes to town: The effects of headquarters' visits on facility-level misconduct”
MAS 2019 Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award
Pablo Casas-Arce, Sofia M. Lourenco, and F. Asis Martinez-Jerez
“The performance effect of feedback frequency and detail: Evidence from a field experiment in customer satisfaction”
MAS and IMA Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education 2019
William Goldman
MAS with CGMA, AICPA and CIMA – 2019 Best Early Career Researcher in Management Accounting
Adam Presslee and Laura W. Wang
Public Interest Section
Distinguished Service Award - 2019
Charles P. Cullinan
Pamela Roush
Outstanding Service Award - 2019
Lisa Baudot
Charles H. Cho
Dana Wallace
Accounting Exemplar Award - 2019
J. Edward Ketz
24th Ethics Symposium Best Research Paper Award
Badriya Al Shammakhi, Higher College of Technology, Ministry of Manpower, Sultanate of Oman and Waymond Rodgers, The University of Texas at El Paso and University of Hull
"Artificial Intelligence Algorithmic Approach in Enhancing Auditors' Fraud Risk Assessment"
Strategic and Emerging Technologies Section
SET Distinguished Service Award 2019
J.P. Krahel, President (2018-2019)
SET Outstanding Dissertation Award 2019
Feiqi Huang
Three Essays on Emerging Technologies in Accounting
Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Section
TLC Leadership and Service Award
Cynthia E. Bolt - Treasurer (2017-2019)
TLC Hall of Honor Inductee - 2019
Gail Hoover King
TLC Outstanding Accounting Education Research Award 2019
David E. Stout
“Further things I have learned...Selected reflections about publishing in accounting education”
TLC Outstanding Instructional Contribution in Accounting 2019
A. Faye Borthick and Gary P. Schneider
“Minimizing cognitive load in representing processes in a business process diagram: Capturing the process and making inferences about it”
Two Year College Section
TYC Two-Year College Educator of the Year Award 2018-2019
Connie Belden