Hello, All,

This year's Semantic Modeling of Accounting Phenomena (SMAP)

meeting will be held on August 15 (Saturday) in conjunction

with the Annual Meeting of the American Accounting

Association. The day will be divided into a morning session

focusing on teaching data modeling (especially REA

modeling), and the afternoon will focus on research.

As we did last year, all who participate will be asked to

submit an idea for discussion. This idea could be a

research proposal or working paper (or idea!), or a teaching

case or problem. If you are new to the area, you could

submit your ideas about why this interests you or plans you

have for the future, or questions you'd like to resolve.

This requirement is NOT meant to limit participation.

Rather, it is a tool we're using to help develop a critical

mass of teaching and research ideas that we can share and

enhance. To meet this goal, please submit your materials to

Julie Smith David in HTML or Word format to her e-mail

(julie.smith.david@asu.edu). She will administer a web site

for participants so the materials can be distributed prior

to the meeting.

Additionally, there will be a $30 fee for participation.

Twenty dollars of this fee will be used for the

much-sought-after T-shirts. The remaining funds will be

used to entice doctoral student participants. To help them

defer the costs of attending the meeting, their admittance

fee will be waved, and extra funds will be distributed to

them. If you know of potential doctoral student recruits,

please extend an invitation to them!

Materials should be submitted electronically by August 1

(julie.smith.david@asu.edu). We would appreciate checks to

be submitted by August 1 made out to Julie Smith David

(SMAP) at

School of Accountancy & Information Management

Arizona State University

Box 3606

Tempe AZ 85287-3606

For international participants -- just bring your $30 to the

session, rather than making a special trip for US funds

ahead of time.

We're looking forward to a great working session! Please

join us!

--

Julie Smith David

http://www.cob.asu.edu/faculty/jsdavid/

Arizona State University 602.965.8603 (v)

Box 873606 602.965.8392 (f)

Tempe AZ 87287-3606 julie.smith.david@asu.edu