Minutes: Meeting of officers, trustees, and key members; Academy of Accounting Historians, Oxford, Mississippi, December 4, 1993, 3:55 - 6:00 p.m.;Meeting of officers, trustees, and key members; Academy of Accounting Historians, Oxford, Mississippi, December 4, 1993, 3:55 - 6:00 p.m.

              MINUTES
Meeting of Officers, Trustees, and Key Members
Academy of Accounting Historians
Oxford, Mississippi
December 4, 1993, 3:55 - 6:00 p.m.
Present: Maureen Berry, Ashton Bishop,
Ed Coffman, Doris M. Cook, Eugene
Flegm, Dale Flesher, Tonya Flesher, Finley
Graves, Barbara Merino, Patti Mills,
Hiroshi Okano, Lee Parker, Gary Previts,
Al Roberts, Bill Sampson, Elliott Slocum,
Ross Tondkar, Michael van Breda, Richard
Vangermeersch.
1. The meeting was called to order by
President Tonya Flesher at 3:55 p.m.
2. Michael van Breda, Treasurer, asked
for clarification on two points which
were agreed upon as follows:
(a) He should pursue options for
investing the Academy's idle
funds, and, with the advice of the
president, place these funds into
interest bearing investments.
(b) The manuscript endowment fund
should be allowed to continue to
build with no disbursements
made from it.
3. Barbara Merino distributed the writ­ten
report of Al Mayper, Chair of the
Membership Committee. This report
and other committee reports will be
published in The Notebook.
4. Eugene Flegm reported on funding
for the Accounting Biography
Conference. After some discussion, a
motion was made that the Academy
establish a policy that any conference
surplus be maintained in a conference
fund. All accounting should be made
in the conference fund and a report on
revenue and expense of each confer­ence
should be prepared. The motion
passed unanimously.
It was also agreed that immediately
following a conference, a letter
enclosing a membership brochure
should be sent to each conference par­ticipant
who was not a member.
Ashton Bishop agreed to do this for
the Accounting Biography Confer­ence.
This responsibility could be
given to a vice president.
5. Elliott Slocum and Al Roberts report­ed
on the Accounting History
Research Center. They have moved
again. They are now cataloging hold­ings
from FSA.
6. Gary Previts recommended that the
Academy become an institutional
member of AACSB. His recommen­dation
will be discussed at the Spring
meeting April 30, 1994 in Louisville,
KY.
7. Dale Flesher reported on the Tax
History Research Center and EDP
auditing archives. These are in good
shape and growing. Video and audio
libraries are expanding. A proposal for
granting research fellowships to stu­dents
to work at the centers is included
with these minutes and also will be dis­cussed
at the Spring meeting.
8. Dale Flesher also reported on the
Journal. He will continue as editor
through the June 1994 issue. Then
Barbara Merino and Patti Mills will
start as editors with the December
1994 issue. All manuscripts should
now be sent to Barbara Merino.
9. Elliott Slocum reported on The
Notebook. The next issue will be
mailed around the first of the year.
10. Finley Graves noted that Number 8 in
the monograph series has been pub­lished.
It will be sold by Garland
Publishing Company. No royalties
will be paid to the Academy. The
monograph consists of two volumes
written by Wolodymyr Motyka, enti­tled
Annotated Bibliography of Russian
Language Publications on Accounting
10 The Accounting Historians Notebook, Spring, 1994