The story
Incorporation papers in the District of Columbia in the name of “The American Association of University Instructors in Accounting” were registered in 1916 as noted in the AAA's 50-year history, American Accounting Association: Its First Fifty Years, 1916–1966. On occasion of its 75th year The Third-Quarter Century of the American Accounting Association 1966-1991 was published in 1991.
The American Accounting Association marked its centennial in 2016. The Association's centennial volume, Years of Transition: The American Accounting Association 1991-2016, is a "contextualized history of
the AAA, with close attention paid to the AAA’s interactions with its institutional, economic, educational, technical, professional, regulatory, and social environment."
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