16th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)/Accounting Information
Systems Track
August 13-15, 2010
Lima, Peru
The Special Interest Group on Accounting Information Systems (SIGASYS) is
pleased to announce a track on Accounting Information Systems at the upcoming
16th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2010) to be held
in Lima, Peru. The Accounting Information Systems track will highlight research
that focuses on the link between accounting and information systems, including
topics that range from IT governance to interorganizational information systems
and draws from a variety of disciplines like accounting, psychology, sociology,
cognitive science, behavioral science, economics, politics, computer science,
and information technology. We invite you to submit your original research to
one of the following Accounting Information Systems mini-tracks.
Accounting Information Systems Mini-tracks
Mini-track One: General Accounting Information Systems
Mini-track Co-chairs:
Dr. Virginia Franke Kleist
(West Virginia University)
virginia.kleist@mail.wvu.edu
Dr. Jamey Worrell (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
worrellj@uab.edu
This mini-track includes any topics in the field of accounting information
systems (AIS) that are not included in the other specialized mini-tracks
described below. Appropriate topics for this mini-track include (but are not
limited to) system integration, IT governance, risk assessment and management,
value of information systems, information assurance seals, global AIS, and case
studies.
Mini-track Two: IS Control, Audit and Reporting
Mini-track Co-chairs:
Dr. Ashley Davis (San Jose State University)
ashley@davissolutions.com
This mini-track is focused on the role that AIS plays in capturing and storing
transaction, ensuring their accuracy, timeliness and validity, and satisfying
the organization’s legal and regulatory requirements.
AIS provides the vast majority of data required for operational, tactical, and
strategic decision making, as well as the basis for interorganizational
information sharing and external reporting to various stakeholder groups.
Appropriate topics for this mini-track include (but are not limited to)
continuous auditing, auditing end user systems, internal audit, COSO, CobiT,
AS5, forensic auditing, data mining/business intelligence, querying, ebXML,
XBRL, AIS use and data ambiguity.
Mini-track Three: Accounting Information Systems Models, Design and
Implementation
Mini-track Co-chairs:
Dr.
Matthew Guah (Erasmus University)
guah@ese.eur.nl
Dr. Carsten Felden (TU
Bergakademie Freiberg)
carsten.felden@bwl.tu-freiberg.de
This mini-track is focused on the role that AIS plays in creating models to help
better store, process and represent the organization’s resources, events and
agents. This mini-track is intended to promote research on the different data
and process models for AIS. Appropriate topics for this mini-track include
(but are not limited to) AIS design, Resource-Event-Agent (REA) models, data
models, enterprise systems, interorganizational information sharing, and data
relevance.
Submission Guidance and Important Dates
Submissions must represent original work that has not been published in a
journal or conference proceedings. At least one author for each accepted paper
must register for the conference. Submissions will be peer-reviewed using a
double-blind system. Submission format and general conference information may be
found at http://www.amcis2010.org/home/
January 4, 2010: AMCIS 2010 submission system is available at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2010
March 1, 2010: Submissions due
April 12, 2010: Acceptance notification
April 26, 2010: Camera-ready copies of accepted
manuscripts due
Please contact the mini-track chairs or the track chair Dr. Carlos Ferran
(Pennsylvania State University, cferran@psu.edu)
with any questions you may have.