Fay Receives "Best Paper" Award in NY

The American Accounting Association (AAA) presented Rebecca G. Fay and Norma R. Montague the Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award for their paper, “Witnessing Your Own Cognitive Bias: A Compendium of Classroom Exercises.”  The award was presented in the form of unique glass art pieces and a $2,500 prize on Wednesday, August 10th at the 2016 AAA Annual Meeting in New York, NY.

(l-r) Dr. Norma Montague, Dr. Rebecca Fay and Terry Shevlin, VP of Research & Publications for the American Accounting Association

The Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award is presented to the best paper published each calendar year. The winner is selected by online voting open to all Issues in Accounting Education subscribing members of the AAA. More information about this award is available online at http://aaahq.org/Education/Awards/2016-Best-Paper-Awards.

Rebecca G. Fay is an assistant professor in the Department of Accounting at East Carolina University.  Her research focuses on enhancing auditor judgments, at both the individual and team level, as well as striving for innovation in auditing education. She earned her PhD at Virginia Tech, her BS and MBA degrees at Liberty University, and gained seven years of audit experience with Cherry Bekaert. Professor Fay received the AAA’s 2016 award for Innovation in Auditing and Assurance Education and the 2015 Scholar-Teacher Award from ECU. Her work has been featured on the cover of the Journal of Accountancy, and has been published in Issues in Accounting Education, the CPA Journal, Current Issues in Auditing, Managerial Auditing Journal, and Research in Accounting Regulation.

Norma R. Montague, PhD, is an assistant professor of accounting at Wake Forest University. She teaches auditing courses in the School of Business’s undergraduate and the Master of Science in Accountancy programs, as well as financial and managerial accounting in the Master of Arts in Management program. She has received recognition from both the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association and Wake Forest University for notable innovations and initiatives related to instruction in undergraduate and graduate programs. She has also won Best Paper Awards from Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory and Issues in Accounting Education. Professor Montague’s research interests are primarily in the areas of auditing and financial reporting with a behavioral decision making focus.

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