4th ANNUAL ABO RESEARCH CONFERENCE
May 8-10, 1997
Advance Meeting Announcement
The AAA/ABO Executive Committee cordially invites you to
attend and participate in the 1997 Annual ABO Research
Conference. The meeting will be held May 8-10, 1997, in
Pittsburgh, PA. A more detailed program announcement will be made
in a future ABO Reporter and Accounting Education News.
Call for Papers
Academicians, practitioners and doctoral students are invited
to submit research papers for possible presentation at the
meeting. Papers in all areas of behavioral accounting will be
considered. Papers that apply individual, group and
organizational issues to auditing, financial accounting,
taxation, public interest accounting, management information
systems, cost/managerial, international, accounting ethics and
accounting education are welcome.
Call for Panels and Round-Tables
These sessions include invited and organized panel sessions
and workshops. Possible topics include, but are not limited to,
accounting education, behavioral research methodology and
interdisciplinary research issues.
Call For Participants
Persons interested in serving as research paper reviewers,
paper discussants, session chairs and panel organizers should
send a letter to the Program Chair, indicating the following
information:
Full name
Position and affiliation
Complete address
Telephone and fax numbers
Area(s) of interest
Important Dates
- November 30, 1996 -- Final date for submission of
papers, proposals, panels and notice of participants'
interest. The non-refundable submission fee is $50, made
payable to AAA/ABO. This is required for all papers
submitted to the conference.
- January 15, 1997 -- Notification of acceptance of
papers.
Guidelines for Submission of Papers
- Papers should not have been published prior to
the 1997 conference.
- An original and four (4) copies must be
submitted. The four copies should not contain any
author identification. One copy of an abstract
should be included with the original. Please
enclose a self-addressed postcard with the title
of your submission for acknowledgment.
- The abstract (maximum 200 words) should be no
longer than one page single spaced.
- The cover page of the original only should
indicate the following information:
a. Full name
b. Position and affiliation
c. Complete address
d. Telephone and fax numbers
e. Area of interest for the paper so the most
appropriate audience/reviewer group (e.g.,
financial, auditing, tax) can be selected for
your paper.
- Papers should be prepared according to the
reference and footnote guidelines of the American
Accounting Association, see The Accounting
Review.
- Papers accepted for presentation may, at the
option of the author, be considered for
publication in the Behavioral Research in
Accounting (BRIA) supplemental issue. Authors
should indicate, at the time of submission, if
the paper is to be considered for conference
presentation only, or for both presentation and
publication in BRIA supplemental issue. These
papers will be reviewed in accordance with BRIA
procedures.
- Authors whose papers are not accepted for
publication in BRIA supplemental issue may
resubmit their papers to BRIA without any
additional submission fee.
Send Papers and Proposals to:
Professor Seleshi Sesaye
Conference Director and Program Chair
1997 AAA/ABO National Research Conference
A.J. Palumbo School of Business Administration
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA 15282-0104