[AISWorld] CfP: AIS track of AMCIS 2014, deadline is March 1

[Gantman, Sonia]

Call for Papers
AMCIS 2014: 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems
Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014

Call for Papers on Accounting Information Systems
Submissions should be made by March 1, 2014 (11:59 PM CST).

The AMCIS 2014 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.

Track Chairs:       Carlos Ferran, Governors State University, cferran at govst.edu<mailto:cferran at govst.edu>
Sonia  Gantman, Providence College,  sgantman at providence.edu<mailto:sgantman at providence.edu>

Mini-Track I: IS Control, Audit and Reporting
Mini-Track Chair: Hongjiang Xu, Butler University, hxu at butler.edu<mailto:hxu at butler.edu>

This mini-track is focused on the role that AIS plays in capturing and storing transactions, 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 II: Enterprise IT Governance and Security for Compliance Management
Mini-Track Chair: Virginia Kleist, West Virginia University, virginia.kleist at mail.wvu.edu<mailto:virginia.kleist at mail.wvu.edu>

The mini track topic of Enterprise IT Governance and Security for Compliance Management addresses the increasing importance of that subset of IT activities associated with fulfilling external obligations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and other information systems compliance requirements.
This track seeks to solicit research from a wide array of research areas including, but not limited to: Enterprise IT governance and security for compliance management, Enterprise risk assessment and risk management, Information assurance prioritization and strategy, Budgeting for the Information Security Assurance Management function, Establishing auditable trust models for securing electronic commerce, Valuation of information assets for security assurance resource optimization, Cost effective information systems regulatory compliance management associated with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and other governmental regulations, and Successful and unsuccessful IT automation of compliance management via software solutions.

Mini-Track III: Accounting Information Systems Models, Design and Implementation
Mini-Track Chair: James Worrell, University of Alabama at Birmingham, worrellj at uab.edu<mailto:worrellj at uab.edu>

This mini-track is focused on the role that AIS plays in creating models to help better store, share information, reengineer, 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, Ontologies used for representation of AIS, Object Oriented databases for AIS, Items-Agent-Cash (IAC) Model, UML for modeling of AIS,  AIS Architectures, Reengineering of legacy AIS into ERP systems, XBRL databases modeling and design,  Resource-Event-Agent (REA) models, data models, Information sharing of AIS with supply chain systems,  enterprise systems modeling, interorganizational information sharing, and data relevance.
Mini-Track IV: General Accounting Information Systems
Mini-Track Chair: Ryan Teeter, University of Pittsburgh, teeter at katz.pitt.edu<mailto:teeter at katz.pitt.edu>

Accounting information systems (AIS) research focuses on the link between accounting and information systems. It includes topics that range from IT governance to interorganizational information sharing.  The General Accounting Information Systems mini-track includes any and all topics in the field of AIS that are not included in the other more specialized mini-tracks. Suggested topics include systems integration, value of information systems, and global AIS and case studies.

To submit your completed research or research-in-progress:

∙ Use the AMCIS 2013 paper template (http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/images/amcis_submission_template_2014.doc).
∙ Read the author submission instructions (http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers).
∙ Submit your paper before March 1, 2014 at 11:59 PM CST via ScholarOne at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014
You will receive notification by April 4, 2014 whether or not your paper is accepted.  If your paper is accepted, the camera-ready copy must be submitted by April 25, 2014.
If you have any questions regarding the process, please send an email to: amcis2014 at aisnet.org<mailto:amcis2014 at aisnet.org>
If you have any questions regarding the topic or would like additional guidance, please send an email to the corresponding track or mini-track chair.



Sonia Gantman, PhD
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Providence College
Koffler Hall, 104
Cell: 781 526 0508

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