The Twentieth Annual Auditing Section Midyear Meeting will be held January 16-18, 2014, at the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter in San Antonio, Texas. The conference will consist of keynote, plenary, and concurrent sessions dealing with a wide variety of contemporary topics related to audit, attestation and assurance practices, education, and research.

We encourage you to contribute to the program through submitting papers and volunteering to coordinate panel discussions and workshops. We also encourage you to volunteer as a reviewer, discussant, and session moderator.

Paper Submission Information:

Submissions can include auditing/attestation/assurance research and education papers (including instructional cases). Submissions must be completed by September 3, 2013. Because of the significant workload associated with reviewing submissions, all submitting authors and co-authors are expected to volunteer as reviewers and submitting/presenting authors are also expected to volunteer as discussants. To volunteer as a reviewer/discussant/moderator please select "Volunteer Opportunities."

Awards for Best Paper and Best PhD Student Paper will be conferred at the conference. Authors must indicate that they would like to be considered for the Best PhD Student Paper award at the time of submission. Nominated papers can be co-authored with a faculty member; however, if selected the student is expected to present the paper. All papers submitted to the conference will be considered for the Best Paper award.

Research papers should follow the style and submission guidelines of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, including the requirement to submit separate electronic files containing the cover page and the paper itself. Instructional cases should be in a format similar to that used in Issues in Accounting Education.

Papers accepted for presentation at the 2014 Midyear Auditing Section Meeting may also be submitted for consideration at the AAA Annual Meeting in August 2014. Papers are not eligible if they: 1) have been published or accepted for publication, 2) were presented at the 2013 AAA Annual Meeting, or 3) were presented at more than one AAA regional meeting or other academic conference. Papers presented at the Research Forum of the AAA Annual Meeting are eligible for consideration.

Panel and Workshop Proposal Information: Please send your ideas for panel discussions and workshop proposals to Rick Hatfield (University of Alabama) at rhatfiel@cba.ua.edu or Susan Scholz (University of Kansas) at sscholz@ku.edu

Questions: Please direct any questions to Rick Hatfield (rhatfiel@cba.ua.edu) or Susan Scholz (sscholz@ku.edu). If you have difficulty logging in to the submission system, please contact Kathy Casper at kathy@aaahq.org

We look forward to seeing you in San Antonio!
(Watch for news of an exciting 20th Anniversary Celebration event.)

Rick Hatfield and Susan Scholz
2014 Midyear Meeting Program Committee Chairs