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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Call for Papers</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">AMCIS 2014: 20<sup>th</sup> Americas Conference on Information Systems</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Call for Papers on <b>Accounting Information Systems</b></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Submissions should be made by March 1, 2014 (11:59 PM CST).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Track Chairs:
<b>Carlos Ferran</b>, Governors State University, <a href="mailto:cferran@govst.edu">
cferran@govst.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Sonia Gantman</span></b><span style="color:black">, Providence College,
<a href="mailto:sgantman@providence.edu">sgantman@providence.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Mini-Track I:
<b>IS Control, Audit and Reporting</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Mini-Track Chair:
<b>Hongjiang Xu</b>, Butler University, <a href="mailto:hxu@butler.edu">hxu@butler.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Mini-Track II:
<b>Enterprise IT Governance and Security for Compliance Management</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:94.5pt;text-indent:-94.5pt"><span style="color:black">Mini-Track Chair:
<b>Virginia Kleist</b>, West Virginia University, <a href="mailto:virginia.kleist@mail.wvu.edu">
virginia.kleist@mail.wvu.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Mini-Track III:
<b>Accounting Information Systems Models, Design and Implementation</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Mini-Track Chair:
<b>James Worrell</b><b>, </b>University of Alabama at Birmingham, <a href="mailto:worrellj@uab.edu">
worrellj@uab.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Mini-Track IV:
<b>General Accounting Information Systems</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Mini-Track Chair:
<b>Ryan Teeter</b><b>, </b>University of Pittsburgh, <a href="mailto:teeter@katz.pitt.edu">
teeter@katz.pitt.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">To submit your completed research or research-in-progress:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">• Use the AMCIS 2013 paper template (<a href="http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/images/amcis_submission_template_2014.doc">http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/images/amcis_submission_template_2014.doc</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">• Read the author submission instructions (<a href="http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers">http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">• Submit your paper before March 1, 2014 at 11:59 PM CST via ScholarOne at
<a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">If you have any questions regarding the process, please send an email to:
<a href="mailto:amcis2014@aisnet.org">amcis2014@aisnet.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Sonia Gantman, PhD</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Assistant Professor of Accounting<br>
Providence College<br>
Koffler Hall, 104 <br>
Cell: 781 526 0508</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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