August 18, 2006

Kinney and Koonce Honored for Excellence in Accounting

AUSTIN, TX—Accounting professors Bill Kinney and Lisa Koonce were among those honored at the American Accounting Association's 2006 Annual Meeting, August 6–9 in Washington, D.C.

Bill Kinney received the American Accounting Association Wildman Medal for his paper, “Auditor Independence, Non-Audit Services, and Restatements: Was the U.S. Government Right?” published in the Journal of Accounting Research in June 2004. His coauthors are Zoe-Vonna Palmrose, University of Southern California, and Susan W. Scholz, University of Kansas.

The Wildman Medal is given annually to the author(s) of the article, book, monograph, or other work published during the five calendar years preceeding the year of the award, which is judged to have made or to be likely to make, the most significant contribution to the advancement of the practice of accounting (including audit, tax and management services).

This is the third Wildman Medal for Kinney, who also won the award in 1983 and 1999.

Lisa Koonce won the Accounting Horizons Best Paper award for “Accounting for Liabilities: Conceptual Issues, Standards Setting, and Evidence from Academic Research, published in Accounting Horizons in September 2005. Her coauthors are Christine Botosan, University of Utah; Steve Ryan, New York University; Mary Stone, University of Alabama; and Jim Wahlen, Indiana University.
 

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