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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">AMCIS 2015: 21<sup>st</sup> Americas Conference on Information Systems</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Puerto Rico, August 13-15, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call for Papers on
<b>Accounting Information Systems</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submissions should be made by February 25, 2015 (11:59 PM EST).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The AMCIS 2015 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="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track Chairs:</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Scott R. Boss</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,
Bentley University, </span><a href="mailto:sboss@bentley.edu"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">sboss@bentley.edu</span></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Carlos Ferran</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,
Governors State University, </span><a href="mailto:cferran@govst.edu"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">cferran@govst.edu</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mini-Track I: General Accounting Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">James Worrell</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, University of
Alabama at Birmingham, </span><a href="mailto:worrellj@uab.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">worrellj@uab.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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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Mini-Track II: IS Control, Audit and Reporting<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Alec Cram</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, Bentley University,
</span><a href="mailto:wcram@bentley.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">wcram@bentley.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mini-Track III: Enterprise IT Governance and Security for Compliance Management<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Virginia Kleist</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, West Virginia
University, </span><a href="mailto:virginia.kleist@mail.wvu.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">virginia.kleist@mail.wvu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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 regulatory or ethical obligations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, FDA, law enforcement reporting, socially responsible supply chain provenance and other information systems compliance
requirements.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This mini track seeks to solicit research from a wide array of research areas including, but not limited to: a)
Enterprise IT governance structures for effective compliance management, b) Enterprise compliance risk assessment and compliance risk management, c) Information assurance prioritization and strategy, d) Establishing auditable trust models for securing electronic
commerce, e) Valuation of information assets for security assurance resource optimization, f) Budgeting for and cost effective management of information systems associated with governmental regulations, g) Successful and unsuccessful compliance management
via automated, continuously auditing software solutions, and h) Shared information, interorganizational trust models and policy ontologies for compliance management.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Mini-Track IV: Accounting Information Systems Models, Designs and Implementation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kathryn Klose</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, University of
Maryland University College, </span><a href="mailto:kathryn.klose@umuc.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">kathryn.klose@umuc.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mini-Track V: Accounting Information Systems and Big Data<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Severin Grabski</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, Michigan State University,
</span><a href="mailto:grabski@msu.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">grabski@msu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">All areas of organizations are interested in the impact of big data. This mini-track focuses on the impact of big data on the accounting information systems (AIS) area,
broadly defined. That is, this mini-track focuses on Big Accounting Data (BAD), and accounting data includes all data related to the events recorded by an organization’s enterprise system (including but not limited to HR, Supply Chain, Service Centers, General
Accounting, and so forth) and how this data relates to data outside of the organization. For example, how are auditors going to use big data? Would the use of big data by auditors have helped to identify financial statement frauds? Would the use of big data
by government auditors help identify Medicare claims frauds and other frauds? How can organizations use big accounting data to provide business insights, especially when combining this data with other data from outside the organization, such as tweets, web
scrapings, and other data? How can predictive analytics be applied for security and control? What are the impediments to the use of big data within the AIS area? How can the embedded semantics from REA-based (Resource-Events-Agents) systems enhance the use
of analytics and big data? What is the impact of big data on privacy? What is the role of enterprise risk management in the realm of big data?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">You will receive notification by April 21, 2013 whether or not your paper is accepted. If your paper is accepted, revisions and the camera-ready copy must be submitted
by April 28, 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Deadlines<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> January 5, 2015: Manuscript submissions begins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> February 25, 2015: Manuscript submissions closes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Tuesday, April 21, 2015: Authors notified about the disposition of their papers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Tuesday, April 28, 2015: Authors submit camera-ready revision of their papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> May 5, 2015: Final decisions on AMCIS 2015 program are made<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you have any questions regarding the process, please send an email to:
<span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:amcis2015@aisnet.org">amcis2015@aisnet.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Carlos Ferran, CMA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Associate Professor of Accounting and MIS Editor-in-Chief RELCASI<br>
Governors State University Certified Management Accountant<br>
College of Business and Public Administration Track-Chair for AMCIS 2014<br>
1 University Parkway UPI GSU Chapter Unit A Vice President<br>
University Park, IL 60484 LACAIS President & SIGASYS President<br>
(708) 235-2818 phone & (708) 534-8457 fax <a href="http://carlos.ferran.net/">
<span style="color:blue">http://carlos.ferran.net</span></a><br>
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