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President’s Letter

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       Spring 2010

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

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

 

First, a note of thanks for the midyear meeting!

Of all of the things that we do as a section, perhaps the

most important is to plan and run the midyear meeting. 

We had one of the best midyear meetings ever!  I would

like to thank Rick Dull for organizing the meeting, and

Martha Eining and Ronny Daigle for coordinating the paper selection process. Featured speakers included John Tonnison from the Tech Data Corporation, Al Castro from KPMG Forensics, Kevin Stocks as President-Elect of the AAA as well as editors of journals related to our section (JIS, IJAIS, AISEJ and TAR).  

             As one of our section initiatives, we put together a dynamite information conference for those considering a PhD in Accounting Information Systems.  With sponsorship by KPMG, we invited 16 candidates to join us for the conference along with a set of doctoral students.  This new set of students interested in AIS academics gives us the promise of a rising generation of AIS teaching and research.  Fourteen current AIS faculty assisted in putting together one of the best consortias ever and I appreciate their support!  We need to continue to do all we can to attract new PhD students in AIS!

             Look forward to an outstanding annual meeting in San Francisco this August!  It promises to be the best annual meeting to date! Our section submitted 39 papers and panel proposals resulting in 11 sessions: 3 dialog sessions, 7 traditional concurrent sessions and 1 panel.

             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 San Francisco!