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For the Week of November 2, 2008...

2009 Annual Meeting
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
On August 2–5, 2009, the American Accounting Association (AAA) will hold its Annual Meeting in New York City. The Program Advisory Committee for the 2009 Annual Meeting of the AAA invites academic and practitioner members from around the globe to submit proposals for: papers, panels, forum presentations, Effective Learning Strategies sessions, CPE Sessions and special concurrent sessions, as well as to volunteer to serve as reviewers, moderators and discussants for meeting sessions. The submission deadline is midnight EST January 12, 2009.

Information Systems Midyear Meeting
PRE-REGISTER TODAY!
The 2009 Information Systems Section Mid-Year Meeting will will be held January 9-10, 2009, at the Doubletree Guest Suites in Charleston, South Carolina. The AIS New Scholars Consortium will precede the meeting on January 7-8, 2009. IS Section members may pre-register online. Students and non-members may register with the form provided. The early registration deadline is December 8, 2008.

2009 Midwest Regional Meeting
CALL FOR ELS SUBMISSIONS
Submissions are invited for the Effective Learning Strategies (ELS) Forum, which will be part of the program for the 2009 AAA Midwest Regional Meeting. The purpose of the ELS Forum is to share innovative teaching strategies that enhance accounting education. The 49th Annnual Midwest Regional Meeting will be held April 16-18, 2009, at the Hyatt Union Station in St. Louis, Missouri. The ELS submissions deadline is December 1, 2008.

Innovation in Accounting Education Award
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The American Accounting Association requests nominations for the 2009 Innovation in Accounting Education Award. The award is intended to encourage innovation and improvement in accounting education. Further, it recognizes significant programmatic changes or a significant activity, concept, or set of materials The winner may be an individual, a group of individuals, or an institution. The nominations deadline is January 31, 2009.

Teaching and Assessment Toolkits
CLOSEOUT SALE
ONE TOOLKIT LEFT! The Program Assessment Toolkit is SOLD OUT. All that remains is the Faculty Evaluation Toolkit, priced at $20. Edited by well-known expert William Cashin, this toolkit includes a handbook addressing critical issues related to the effective evaluation of faculty (including annotated references), John Centra's book Assessing Faculty Work, and the collection of The IDEA Center's IDEA Papers on the topic. Supplies are EXTREMELY limited, so order today!

Doctoral Scholars Program
in Accounting
CREATED BY CPA PROFESSION
In response to the growing shortage of academically qualified university accounting faculty members, especially those with recent experience in the practice of auditing and tax, concerned practitioners, leaders from the 80 largest CPA firms and other organizations initiated the Accounting Doctoral Scholars (ADS) program. The program is administered by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Foundation under the oversight of an Advisory Council. The initiating sponsors have pledged financial support of $15 million for the program.

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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