Members of the American Accounting Association, academicians, practitioners, and doctoral students are invited to participate in the 2008 AAA Southwest Regional Meeting held in conjunction with the FBD meeting at the Hyatt Regency in Houston, Texas.

Participation is invited in the following segments of the meeting:

• Completed papers
• Proposals for panel discussions, workshops, and emerging research
• Proposals for CPE (2 hour or 4 hour sessions)
• Teaching strategies forum

Papers, panels, and CPE may encompass any topical area of accounting and may be theoretical or practice-oriented. The program will be structured around the best submissions. The papers will be sent out for "blind referee review." Completed submissions should be received in electronic form no later than October 5, 2007.

To submit a paper for consideration, send an e-mail with the paper as a Word file attachment to the program chair at swaaa@ucok.edu. Do not include any author identification on the Word file attachment. However, the e-mail should contain the following:

Name(s) (Please indicate the contact author)
Position/Title
Affiliation
Complete mailing address
Telephone numbers (office/fax)
E-mail address

The topic area of the submission from the list below:

• Accounting, Behavior and Organizations
• Accounting History
• Artificial Intelligence/Emerging Technologies
• Auditing
• Financial Accounting and Reporting
• Gender Issues in Accounting
• Government and Nonprofit
• Information Systems
• International Accounting
• Management Accounting
• Personal Financial Planning
• Public Interest
• Taxation
• Teaching and Curriculum
• Two-Year College
• Other (Please specify)

Authors may choose whether to publish an abstract or the paper in the meeting proceedings. Papers may also have been submitted to the American Accounting Association National meeting, but should not have been published elsewhere before the Southwest meeting.

CPE sessions will be scheduled for Thursday afternoon, March 6. Paper presentations, panels, teaching strategies forum, and workshops will be scheduled for Thursday, March 6, Friday, March 7 and Saturday morning, March 8.

In addition, this call solicits participants who will serve as:

• Discussant
• Reviewer
• Session Moderator

If you wish to participate as a reviewer, discussant or moderator, please email the program chair and indicate your interest/preference as a discussant, reviewer, or session moderator and the area in which you would like to participate.

Special Awards
The following awards are expected to be given at the meeting:

1. Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper
2. Best Education Research Paper and Creative Teaching Award (Both Awards Sponsored by the Teaching and Curriculum Section)
3. Distinguished Paper Award for the SWAAA Regional Meeting (Sponsored by McGraw-Hill/Irwin)  

2008 SWAAA Program Chair Contact Information:

Bambi Hora
College of Business
University of Central Oklahoma
100 N University Drive
Edmond, OK 73034
Phone: 405-974-2156
Fax: 405-974-3853
E-mail: bhora@ucok.edu

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