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IS SECTION / AMERICAN ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION.

President’s Letter

What an honor it is to serve with you this year! 

What a great year it is to be an AIS scholar!

 

First is our mid-year meeting, to be held in

Clearwater Beach, FL, from January 6-9, 2010. Come join

us! This is our core means of promoting  excellence in

research, teaching, and practice for  both new and older

scholars alike! In addition to great networking opportunities

and both research and education paper sessions, we have two very current and intriguing topical speakers. The Friday plenary speaker will be John Tonnison from the Tech Data Corporation.  The Friday lunch speaker will be Al Castro from KPMG Forensics. The Saturday lunch speaker will be Kevin Stocks as President-Elect of the AAA as well as editors of journals related to our section (JIS, IJAIS and TAR).  

For our CPE workshop, we are collaborating with IMA and Protiviti. The workshop is intended to provide an interactive forum for both teachers and researchers in the area of internal controls. The session will include an introduction to business process controls, a case study breakout session for attendees that will focus on the process of identifying controls that could be automated and what that means for a business. We will also have presentations on automating internal controls and continuous monitoring of controls with a discussion of technology enablement and best practices.

On Friday evening, we will have dinner on the beach at the hotel. Please thank Rick Dull for organizing the meeting, and Martha Eining and Ronny Daigle for coordinating the paper selection process. Please come and make this the best mid-year meeting ever!

             As one of our section initiatives, we are working to put together a dynamite information conference for those considering a PhD in Accounting Information Systems.  With sponsorship by KPMG, from 22 applications we invited 17 candidates to join us for the conference.  This new set of students interested in AIS academics gives us the promise of a rising generation of AIS teaching and research.   If you haven’t seen the website developed by Terry Glandon at www.aisphd.com. Thanks to Terry!  We hope there will be many, many doctoral students and new AIS scholars join us for this conference as well.  There will also be 14 current AIS faculty that will assist in putting together one of the best consortia ever. 

             Along with the many call for papers we get each year, please prepare your research for submission to the annual meeting in San Francisco this August!  It promises to be the best annual meeting to date!

             Now you can see why I am excited about this year! We are working on great initiatives in our pursuit of excellence and we have so many dedicated volunteers who tirelessly give of their time and energy to make it happen. Thank you for this opportunity to work with you! I hope to see you in Florida!

 

 

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