Student memberships in the IMA and AICPA

Students can join the Institute of Management Accountants for $39 (Link to Join). To view the benefits of IMA membership see the Why join IMA page.

Students can also join the AICPA as a student affiliate for $35 (Link to Join). To view the benefits of a student affiliate membership see the Benefits and Info Guide page.

Student membership in AAA

Students can join the American Accounting Association for $25 (Link to join). The AAA also offers a Sponsor-Your -Student program that allows a faculty member to sponsor a student's membership (Link to become a sponsor).

As members of the AAA, students can access the Career Center (Link to the center), post a resume online, and access current academic positions posted on the job board. In addition, members can join AAA Commons and access on line posts and discussions related to various accounting topics. Although any student can join, AAA membership is highly recommended for those who are interested in an academic career in accounting.

Bob Jensen's accounting news sites

Bob Jensen provides some very useful links related to News Sites (e.g., accounting and taxation, fraud, XBRL) International Accounting standards, and other topics on the following page.

http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm

What's new on MAAW?

I recently added a bibliography for the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems.

http://maaw.info/InternationalJournalofAccInfoSys.htm


For all MAAW's Journal Bibliographies see:

http://maaw.info/SelectedJournals.htm

Become a member of MAAW

I placed a "Google Friend Connect" gadget on MAAW's main page. You can help me encourage, promote, and facilitate management and accounting education, research, and practice by becoming a member. Join MAAW and start promoting.

Changes in higher education

Very interesting paper related to the changes taking place in higher education.

Kamenetz, A. 2009. Who needs Harvard? Free online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks - American higher education is being transformed by a cadre of web-savvy edupunks. Fast Company (September): 84-89.

Discussion of what's new in higher education, e.g., OpenCourseWare Consortium, Flat World Knowledge, Knewton, Peer-2Peer University, Creative Commons, AcaWiki, Academic Earth, MIT's OpenCourseWare, Western Governors University, 2Tor Inc, Edufire, Grockit, and Inigral.

For links to these web sites see my note on this article.

From the 1907 Journal of Accountancy

"It is as hard to distinguish, here at least, between a Democrat and a Republican as it is to determine from the size of his hip pockets or his bibulous habits between the gentleman from Kentucky and the sockless statesman from Kansas who is in favor of prohibition but opposed to its enforcement. It would be a hard job to separate Republican sheep from Democratic goats. The average man doesn't know what he is himself. He resembles the Irishman, who had carried the pitcher to often to the well. He left his friends and joined the ranks of dividend payers in a street car. The car gave a lurch. He lost the strap and was precipitated into a woman's lap. He apologized and moved up the aisle. The car lurched again and he was compelled to sit down on another woman's lap. He apologized again and in search of safety, he walked still further up the aisle and was about to take hold of another strap when, another lurch threw him into another woman's lap. He was about to apologize when this woman indignantly asked: "What are you, anyway?" The man with the map of Erin on his face looked at her sorrowfully and meekly replied: "Oi don't know mum: whin Oi came in here, Oi thawt Oi was and Oirishman, but now Oi guess Oi must be a Lap lander."" Jaggard, E. A. 1907. JOA (December): 175.

"Out where the West begins"

This cute little poem is from a 1912 issue of the Journal of Accountancy.

"Out where the handclasp's a little stronger,
Out where a smile dwells a little longer,
That's where the West begins.

Out where the sun's a little brighter,
Where the snow that falls is a trifle whiter,
Where the bonds of home are a wee bit tighter,
That's where the West begins.

Out where skies are a trifle bluer,
Out where friendship's a little truer,
That's where the West begins.

Out where a fresher breeze is blowing,
Where there is laughter in every streamlet flowing,
Where there's more of reaping and less of sowing,
That's where the West begins.

Out where the world is in the making,
Where fewer hearts with despair are aching,
That's where the West begins.

Where there is more of singing and less of sighing,
Where there is more of giving and less of buying,
And a man makes friends without half trying -
That's where the West begins."

Author unknown. Submitted by Temple, H. M. 1912. JOA (September): 326.

Some old but interesting articles

I have been working on a bibliography for the Harvard Business Review beginning with 1922. There are many early articles that are relevant today. For example: The following quote is from Donham, W. B. 1927. The social significance of business. Harvard Business Review(July): 406-419.

"Discontent with the existing condition of things is perhaps more widespread than ever before in history. The nation is full of idealists, yet our civilization is essentially materialistic. On all sides, complicated social, political, and international questions press for solution, while the leaders who are competent to solve these problems are strangely missing." p. 406.

See Harvard Business Review for more as I develop this section.