The American Accounting Association (AAA) promotes accounting education, research and practice. Founded in 1916 as the American Association of University Instructors in Accounting, its present name was adopted in 1936. The Association is a voluntary group of persons interested in accounting education and

research Research is " creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness ...

. The council comprises the largest gathering of accountants in

academia An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, ...

. Aside from working in academia, AAA also branches into:

information system An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems are composed by four components: task, people ...

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

expert systems In artificial intelligence, an expert system is a computer system emulating the decision-making ability of a human expert. Expert systems are designed to solve complex problems by reasoning through bodies of knowledge, represented mainly as if� ...

, Public Interest, auditing,

taxation A tax is a compulsory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund government spending and various public expenditures (regional, local, o ...

(the American Taxation Association is a Section of the AAA), international accounting, and teaching and

curriculum In education, a curriculum (; : curricula or curriculums) is broadly defined as the totality of student experiences that occur in the educational process. The term often refers specifically to a planned sequence of instruction, or to a view ...

. AAA publishes six issues of '' The Accounting Review'' per year in January, March, May, July, September, and November. Other publications include '' Accounting Horizons''.

Leadership

The Board of Directors (2019-2020) consists of 12 members. The current president is Terry Shevlin and is also a professor at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California-Irvine. The other leadership positions are: President-Elect, Past-President, Vice President of Finance, Vice President of Finance-Elect, Vice President of Research & Publications, Vice President of Education, Director of Focusing on Membership, Director of Focusing on International, Director of Focusing on Segments, Director of Focusing on Intellectual Property, and Director of Focusing on Academics and Practitioner Interaction.

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* Accounting organizations 1916 establishments in the United States Professional associations based in the United States Learned societies of the United States {{prof-assoc-stub