ACCOUNTANCY
Larry Brown distinguished professor of accountancy, served on the panel "How to Publish in Premier Accounting Journals" at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Accounting Association.
A paper by Audrey Gramling, assistant professor, "The Influence of Non-audit Service Revenues and Client Pressure on External Auditors' Decisions to Rely on Internal Audit," was accepted for publication in Contemporary Accounting Research.
Ram Sriram, professor, taught at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India as a visiting faculty member. Sriram taught a course on management controls to students of the software management graduate program. He also presented a research seminar to the IIM-B faculty and was an invited speaker at the Chief Financial Officers Forum of Multinational Corporations.
Ram Sriram was recently named the Controllers RoundTable Professor of Information Systems, and Ernie Larkins was named the School of Accountancy Alumni Professor.
Fred Jacobs, professor, just concluded his tenure as president of the Diversity Section of the American Accounting Association. Jacobs also was a guest speaker at the Accounting Doctoral Students' Association meeting, part of the Ph.D. Project held in Orlando, FL.
The School of Accountancy recently welcomed three new Ph.D.s as faculty members, Tony Lei Chen from the University of Texas-Dallas, Artur Hugon from University of Southern California and Arianna Pinello from Florida State University.
Jane Mutchler, director of the School of Accountancy, spoke in Xi'an, China, at a meeting of the Chinese Accounting Professors' Association. Jane Mutchler also will travel to Moscow and St. Petersburg in October to lead a delegation of academic and professional participants to investigate the state of accounting education and practice in Russia.
COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Faculty of the Center for Process Innovation (CEPRIN) recently completed two major studies. The first was a multimonth, multisite project for Gartner, Inc. (the major international IT research organization) that focused on pathologies and innovation opportunities related to their internal research processes. All CEPRIN faculty and several Ph.D. and master's students of the center were involved in the project. It concluded with a series of presentations to the Gartner senior leadership outlining the Center's recommendations and conclusions.
Arun Rai, James A. Harkins III Professor, working in collaboration with V. Sambamurthy of Michigan State University and Ritu Agarwal of the University of Maryland, completed a multiyear research project for the Advanced Practices Council of the Society for Information Management (SIM). This work, titled "Unleashing Enterprise Value Nets," examined practices across a number of global supply chains and developed a set of conclusions regarding architecture choices and their governance.
The CIS Department and CPI have attracted next year's IFIP 8.6 International Conference to Atlanta. IFIP stands for International Federation of Information Processing (www.ifip.or.at) and information about the 8.6 group can be found at www.isi.salford.ac.uk/ifip. The title of this international conference is "Business Agility and IT Diffusion," and more detailed information is available at http://ifiptc8.itu.dk/Atlanta/. The conference is sponsored jointly by corporations and academic institutions. The sponsors are Gartner, Intel, Microsoft, Georgia State University, CIS Department and CEPRIN. Professors Richard Baskerville and Lars Mathiassen are co-chairs for the event.
Melody Moore, assistant professor, has been selected for the Lillian Gilbreath lectureship from the National Academy of Engineers. She will be addressing the annual national meeting of the NAE on October 3 2004. She has also been invited to give a technical talk about her brain computer interface research at the Grace Hopper Conference for Women in Technology, October 5-7, 2004.
HOSPITALITY
David Pavesic, professor, recently published, Fundamental Principles of Restaurant Cost Control (2nd edition, 2005, Pearson/Prentice Hall). He has also recently authored two articles for Restaurant Startup & Growth, a trade magazine for restaurant owners and operators.
Debby Cannon, director of the School of Hospitality was named vice chair of the Accreditation Commission for Programs in Hospitality Administration (ACPHA) at the commission's August meeting. ACPHA is the accreditation body for four-year hospitality programs in the United States and internationally.
FINANCE
Vikas Agarwal, assistant professor, has been invited to be a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Hedge Funds in Montreal held on October 1, 2004. This conference is organized by University of Quebec, Montreal.
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