AICPA Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award: call for nominations.

The Pre-Certification Education Executive Committee welcomes nominations for the 2008 Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award. The award is designed to recognize a full-time college accounting educator for excellence in teaching and for national prominence in the accounting profession. Nominations are due Jan. 18, 2008.

To be eligible for the award, the nominee must be a full-time or recently retired (within the past five years) accounting educator at a post-secondary educational institution; be distinguished for excellence in classroom teaching; be involved in curriculum development; be contributing to the accounting profession; and exemplify the philosophy of the CPA Vision, enabling individuals to shape their futures by communicating the total picture with clarity and objectivity, translating complex information into critical knowledge, anticipating and creating...