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AIS Newsletter |
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IS SECTION / AMERICAN ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION. |
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IS Section Membership Service Committee ~Del DeVries |
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Report to the Executive Committee 1/10/2008
Activities over the past year: Continued prior year work on association/membership data issues with the AAA membership chair (Bruce Behn, nominee for Vice President Sections & Regions at next annual meeting).
The primary activity revolved around attempts to obtain data from AAA so that prior ideas could be analyzed. The result of these “attempts” was to take on the task personally with Bruce Behn, Jon Woodroof, and AAA staff. · Obtained a copy of the AAA membership database and copy of the Hasselback database (purchased by AAA). · Conference call12/19/2007 with Tracey Sutherland (AAA Exec Dir), James Szelminski (AAA IT Director), Roland LaTulip (AAA Director, Finance & Administration), Bruce Behn (Univ of Tennessee), and Del DeVries (Belmont Univ). Meeting focused on data collection and scrubbing efforts to date including data integrity issues and a linking table created between the AAA membership data and the Hasselback database. Also discussed the evolving AAA Management System and data needs for sections. · Take aways from this work and meeting are “we’re not there yet,” but we are closer than we were a year ago. · I understand that Bruce Behn will continue to drive the issue of better information systems for reporting at the AAA Executive Committee level.
Membership Data Analysis “Old Ideas” - i.e., Analysis “ideas” from the past which depended on better data · Defining what a valuable section member looks like (vs. simply adding numbers at a few dollars a year) · Other potential analysis includes the expected questions such as where/why are members lost, identify schools without IS section members, and IAS friendly dissertation or publication schools.
There are also numerous other “new” analysis that will now be possible given linkage of Hasselback data and the AAA membership data.
Future Action Steps Proposed: · Engage committee members in analysis appropriate for decision making. (Note that I did not do that this past year) · Continue to provide input to evolving AAA membership systems.
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