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Accounting Education News, 2008 Annual Meeting Issue
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For the Week of July 6, 2008...

AAA Annual Meeting
2008 PLENARY SPEAKERS
The Theme for this year’s meeting is “Building Our Accounting Community,” which features the view that our Community is “inclusive” and dynamic. In keeping with the conference theme, a series of three plenary sessions on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday mornings will be presented:

• Monday: John Steele Gordon
  Author/Columnist/Commentator
  Accounting: A Force for Progress Over the Centuries
  
  
• Tuesday: Zoe-Vonna Palmrose
  Deputy Chief Accountant — SEC
  Science, Politics, the Media, and Accounting: Perspectives from the Potomac
  
  
• Wednesday: John H. Biggs
  Former Chairman/President/CEO, TIAA-CREF
  The Importance of Accounting Education in the 21st Century

Accounting Horizons
ABSTRACTS—JUNE 2008
Abstracts of articles appearing in the June 2008 issue of Accounting Horizons are now available online through the AAA Electronic Publications system. Highlights of this edition, Volume 22, No. 2, include four feature articles and two commentaries. Online access to the abstracts does not require a subscription to the publication.

2009 MAS Research and Case Conference
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Submissions are invited for the 2009 MAS Research and Case Conference and the MAS Doctoral Colloquium will be held January 8–10, 2009 in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Doctoral Colloquium will be precede the Research and Case Conference on Thursday January 8, 2009. The Research and Case Conference will take place on Friday-Saturday January 9-10, 2009. The submissions deadline is August 3, 2008.

COSO Releases Exposure Draft
MONITORING OF INTERNAL CONTROL
The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) has released an exposure draft document titled, Guidance on Monitoring Internal Control Systems, designed to help organizations monitor the quality of their internal control systems. Interested parties are asked to provide comments via a feedback portal on COSO’s Web site (www.coso.org). The comment period will end August 15, 2008. Continued…

Studies in Accounting Research
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
At the 2007 Annual Meeting the Executive Committee approved the reinstatement of the monograph series Studies in Accounting Research (SAR). The AAA issued 33 SARs from 1969 through 2000. SAR is a prestigious series that provides an outlet for seminal and innovative research not bounded by the usual space and topic constraints present in our journals. SAR is of significant benefit to authors in exploring a topic in great depth and as a resource for other researchers.

Future Accounting Faculty and Programs
PROJECTS AND RESOURCES
The AAA is developing new resources for the community participating in and supporting accounting programs, students, faculty, and by that connection practitioners of accounting. This ongoing effort will support the broad community committed to a vital future for accounting education.

Global Accounting Digital Archive Network
A PROJECT OF AAA AND EAA
The Global Accounting Digital Archive Network combines many sources of freely available digital information and archives related to accounting in various parts of the world. Initiated as a joint project of the American Accounting Association and the European Accounting Association, in collaboration with organizations and academics from many parts of the world, this on-going effort aims to assemble links to useful accounting archives.

Forensic and Investigative Accounting
PROPOSED NEW AAA SECTION
Sponsors of the Forensic and Investigative Accounting (FIA) Section are soliciting members for a proposed new section of the American Accounting Association.

AAA Resource Page
NASBA'S UAA REVISION PROPOSALS
In 2005, the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) issued an exposure draft of proposed changes to the Uniform Accountancy Act, Rules 5-1 and 5-2. In response to this exposure draft the AAA convened a task force to examine the proposed changes and to prepare a response. Please review the Resource Page for documents prepared by the Task Force and links to useful resources.
On January 16, 2006 NASBA issued a Framework for Revision

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