1999/2000 ABO Officers Election

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Candidate Biography

Jane Kennedy, University of Washington
Candidate for Chair-Elect
Jane Kennedy was born in Ontario, Canada. She earned her Bachelor of Business Administration degree at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John, and her MBA at the University of Alberta. She taught accounting in the School of Business at the University of Alberta for nine years before going to Duke University to earn her Ph.D. in accounting. Jane graduated from Duke in 1992 and joined the University of Washington in January of that year. She has also visited Indiana University to teach their Ph.D. seminar in behavioral accounting research. She was promoted to associate professor at the University of Washington in September 1998.

Jane Kennedy's research has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, and Organizations, Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Her dissertation was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation for the Accounting, Behavior, and Organizations Section of the American Accounting Association in 1992.

She has been active in the American Accounting Association, serving as Secretary/Treasurer for the ABO section, Chair of the ABO Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee and as a member of the New Faculty Consortium Committee in 1998 and 1999. Her teaching interests are in financial accounting and in judgment and decision-making research.

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Candidate Biography

Joe Fisher, Indiana University
Candidate for Secretary-Treasure
Joseph Fisher is a KPMG Peat Marwick Fellow and tenured Associate Professor of Accounting at Indiana University. He received his B.A. from Brigham Young University, a M.S. in accounting and information systems and a Ph.D. in accounting from Ohio State University.

His services for the ABO section include: Editor of the ABO Reporter (newsletter), 1998 - present, a panelist for the Plenary Session of he 1997 ABO Research Conference in Pittsburgh, May 1997, and the AAA/ABO Panel Session at the AAA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, August 1998. He served as paper reviewer and a discussant for the 1997 and 1996 ABO Research Conferences. He is an active member of the ABO Section playing important roles in the Section's publications programs.

Joe Fisher was formerly on the faculty at the Amos Tuck School, Dartmouth College and at the University of Arizona. He has been a visiting professor at Thesesus Institute, France, the International University of Japan and the Helsinki School of Economics. He is on the editorial board of The Accounting Review (AR), Journal of Management Accounting Research (JMAR) and Behavioral Research in Accounting (BRIA). He has worked for the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche.

Joe Fisher's research interests focus on areas of management control. His academic research has appeared in journals such as the AR, Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS), Academy of Management Journal, Decision Sciences, Strategic Management Journal, JMAR, BRIA, Journal of Accounting Literature, Public Choice, Journal of Cost Management, among other journals. He is co-author of the book Cost Management for Tomorrow sponsored by the Financial Executive Institute. He is also co-author of the Financial Management Program for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and has served on several AICPA task forces. He has completed several consulting and research projects for Fortune 500 companies.

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