Officers elected, awards presented at AAA meeting.OFFICERS ELECTED, AWARDS PRESENTED AT AAA MEETING John K. Simmons of the University of Florida University of Florida is the third-largest university in the United States, with 50,912 students (as of Fall 2006) and has the eighth-largest budget (nearly $1.9 billion per year). UF is home to 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. was elected the 1989-90 president of the American Accounting Association at the 74th annual meeting, held in Honolulu, Hawaii. He succeeds Gerhard G. Mueller of the University of Washington, who remains on the AAA executive committee as immediate past president. Others on the 1989-90 executive committee are Alvin A. Arens of Michigan State University Michigan State University, at East Lansing; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855. It opened in 1857 as Michigan Agricultural College, the first state agricultural college. , president-elect; Wanda A. Wallace of Texas A&M University, D. Gerald Searfoss of Touche Ross & Co., and Robert E. Jensen of Trinity University, all vice-presidents. Also serving are Corine T. Norgaard of the University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut is the State of Connecticut's land-grant university. It was founded in 1881 and serves more than 27,000 students on its six campuses, including more than 9,000 graduate students in multiple programs. UConn's main campus is in Storrs, Connecticut. , director of education; Shyam Sunder sun·der v. sun·dered, sun·der·ing, sun·ders v.tr. To break or wrench apart; sever. See Synonyms at separate. v.intr. To break into parts. n. A division or separation. of Carnegie--Mellon University, director of research; Joseph J. Schultz, Jr., of Arizona State University Arizona State University, at Tempe; coeducational; opened 1886 as a normal school, became 1925 Tempe State Teachers College, renamed 1945 Arizona State College at Tempe. Its present name was adopted in 1958. , secretary--treasurer; and Daniel W. Collins of the University of Iowa Not to be confused with Iowa State University. The first faculty offered instruction at the University in March 1855 to students in the Old Mechanics Building, situated where Seashore Hall is now. In September 1855, the student body numbered 124, of which, 41 were women. , director of publications. At a luncheon, William R. Kinney, Jr., of the University of Texas at Austin “University of Texas” redirects here. For other system schools, see University of Texas System. The University of Texas at Austin (often referred to as The University of Texas, UT Austin, UT, or Texas , and Robert N. Anthony, Harvard University (emeritus), received the 1989 AAA Outstanding Accounting Educator Award. The joint AAA-American Institute of CPAs 22nd annual award for notable contributions to accounting literature went to Mark A. Wolfson, Joseph McDonald Professor of Accounting at Stanford University, for "Empirical Evidence of Incentive Problems and Their Mitigation in Oil and Gas Tax Shelter Programs" in Principals and Agents: The Structure of Business, published by the Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. Press in 1985. The Competitive Manuscript Award went to John R. M. Hand of the University of Chicago for "A Test of the Extended Functional Fixation Hypotheses" and Siva Swaminathan of Michigan State University for "Impact of SEC Mandated Segment Data on Price Variability Divergence of Beliefs." The Seminal Contribution to Accounting Literature Award was presented to William H. Beaver of Stanford University for "Information Content of Annual Earnings Announcements," Empirical Research in Accounting: Selected Studies 1968, supplement to the Journal of Accounting Research. The Report of the National Commission on Fradulent Financial Reporting (the Treadway commission report) won the Wildman Award. Hugh L. Marsh, director of internal audit of the Aluminum Company of America when he served as a member of the Treadway commission, was given the award on behalf of the commission. Funded by the Deloitte Haskins & Sells Foundation, the award commemorates the centenary of the birth of John R. Wildman, a partner of the firm and the first president of the AAA's predecessor. At a breakfast session, Yuji Ijiri of Carnegie-Mellon University was inducted into Ohio State University's Accounting Hall of Fame. [Exhibit 1 Omitted] |
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