Accounting Professor Named to Two Important Posts

Assistant Professor Hollis (Holly) Ashbaugh-Skaife, Accounting and Information Systems, will have an enhanced national role, thanks to her recent appointment to two positions.

Ashbaugh-Skaife has been asked to serve on the editorial board of The Accounting Review, one of the top three journals in accounting. She also will chair the Financial Accounting Standards Committee of the American Accounting Association, which coordinates association activities regarding financial accounting standard setting. Duties include evaluating discussion memoranda and exposure drafts related to financial accounting and reporting in the private sector as they are released by the FASB, IASB and other accounting standard-setting groups, and respond to those groups in

writing and by appearing at selected public hearings. The committee also considers and promotes ways to increase quantity and quality of academic input to the standard-setting process.