American Accounting Association

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American Accounting Association
Formation
  • 1916;108 years ago (1916) as the American Association of University Instructors in Accounting
  • 1936;88 years ago (1936) as the American Accounting Association
Headquarters Lakewood Ranch, Florida
Website aaahq.org

The American Accounting Association (AAA) promotes accounting education, research and practice. [1] The Association mission is to further the discipline and profession of accounting through education, research and service. [2]

Contents

The organization is the largest association of accountants in academia. [3] AAA also focuses on: information systems, artificial intelligence/expert systems, public interest, auditing, taxation (the American Taxation Association is a Section of the AAA), international accounting, teaching, and curriculum. [4]

AAA publishes The Accounting Review, [5] Accounting Horizons and Issues in Accounting Education.

History

Incorporation papers in the District of Columbia in the name of “The American Association of University Instructors in Accounting” were registered in 1916 as noted in the AAA's 50 year history, American Accounting Association: Its First Fifty Years, 1916–1966. [6] On occasion of its 75th year The Third-Quarter Century of the American Accounting Association 1966-1991 was published in 1991. [7]

The American Accounting Association marked its centennial in 2016. The Association's centennial volume, Years of Transition: The American Accounting Association 1991-2016, is a "contextualized history of the AAA, with close attention paid to the AAA’s interactions with its institutional, economic, educational, technical, professional, regulatory, and social environment." [8]

Leadership

The Board of Directors (2022-2023) consists of 12 members. The current president is Mark C. Dawkins, professor University of North Florida Coggin College of Business The other leadership positions are: President-Elect, Past-President, Vice President of Finance, Vice President of Finance-Elect, Vice President of Research & Publications, Vice President of Education, Director Focusing on Membership, Director Focusing on International, Director Focusing on Segments, Director Focusing on Intellectual Property, and Director Focusing on Academics and Practitioner Interaction. [9]

Sections

The AAA has 17 sections: Academy of Accounting Historians, Accounting Behavior and Organizations, Accounting Information Systems, American Taxation Association, Auditing, Diversity, Financial Accounting and Reporting, Forensic Accounting, Gender Issues and Worklife Balance, Government and Nonprofit, International Accounting, Leadership in Accounting Education, Management Accounting, Public Interest, Strategic and Emerging Technologies, Teaching, Learning and Curriculum, and Two-Year College. [10]

Regional Section conferences are also held in the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Northeast, Ohio, Southeast, Southwest and West. [11]

Publications

The AAA publishes three major journals, The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, and Issues in Accounting Education.

AAA Sections publish The Journal of the American Taxation Association (Section: American Taxation Association); Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory and Current Issues in Auditing (Section: Auditing); The Journal of Financial Reporting (Section: Financial Accounting and Reporting); Journal of Forensic Accounting Research (Section: Forensic Accounting); Journal of Governmental & Nonprofit Accounting (Section: Government and Non-Profit); Journal of International Accounting Research (Section: International Accounting); Journal of Management Accounting Research (Section: Management Accounting); Accounting and the Public Interest (Section: Public Interest); and Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting (Section: Strategic and Emerging Technologies).

Awards

The AAA major awards presented at the annual conference: [12]

Accounting Hall of Fame

The Accounting Hall of Fame established at Ohio State University in 1950 is maintained by the AAA. It recognizes distinguished service contributions to the progress of accounting. [13]

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References

  1. Flesher, Dale L. The Third-Quarter Century of the American Accounting Association, 1966-1991. Sarasota, Fla: American Accounting Association, 1991.
  2. American Accounting AssociationVision and Mission Statements
  3. "AAA > About". aaahq.org. Retrieved 2017-10-24.
  4. "American Accounting Association on JSTOR". www.jstor.org. Retrieved 2017-10-24.
  5. "AAA > Research > Journals > The Accounting Review". aaahq.org. Retrieved 2017-10-24.
  6. Zeff, Stephen A. (1966). American Accounting Association: Its First Fifty Years, 1916–1966. Evanston, IL: American Accounting Association.
  7. Flesher Dale L and American Accounting Association. (1991). The Third-Quarter Century of the American Accounting Association 1966-1991. Sarasota Fla: American Accounting Association.
  8. Miranti Paul J, Nandini Chandar and Deirdre M Collier. 2016. Years of Transition: The American Accounting Association 1991-2016.. American Accounting Association. 2016, p.7
  9. 2022-2023 AAA Board of Directors. American Accounting Association.
  10. AAA Sections. American Accounting Association.
  11. AAA Sections. American Accounting Association.
  12. Miranti Paul J, Nandini Chandar and Deirdre M Collier. 2016. Years of Transition: The American Accounting Association 1991-2016]. American Accounting Association. 2016, pp. 155-177.
  13. “2022 Inductees to The Accounting Hall of Fame.” Accounting Education News 50.3 (2022): 3