You are invited to participate in the Second Annual International Research Symposium on Accounting Information Systems (IRSAIS 2001) on December 15-16, 2001 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (immediately preceding ICIS 2001).

The symposium will begin with a welcome dinner on December 15 at a local restaurant (to be announced later) and will include research paper sessions all day on December 16. Lunch on December 16 is included and will be held at a local restaurant (to be announced later).

The symposium is designed to allow adequate time for in-depth, interactive discussion of the presented research papers. We have an interesting set of high-quality papers accepted for presentation. The preliminary program is available at http://www.msu.edu/~grabski/irsais_p.html

To obtain a discounted registration rate, register by October 31, 2001 on the ICIS web site: http://isds.bus.lsu.edu/icis2001/

For more information, contact

Program Co-Chairs:      Cheryl Dunn                       Severin Grabski
                                   Florida State University      Michigan State University
                                   cheryl.dunn@fsu.edu         grabski@msu.edu

Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Cheryl Dunn                     Greg Gerard
                                                Florida State University     Florida State University
                                                cheryl.dunn@fsu.edu        ggerard@garnet.acns.fsu.edu

Sponsoring Journal Editor:   Steve G. Sutton
                                         University of Connecticut
                                         International Journal of Accounting Information Systems
                                         SSutton@sba.uconn.edu

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Professor Cheryl Dunn

(850) 644-7878 voice

Accounting Department (850) 644-8234 fax

Florida State University cheryl.dunn@fsu.edu

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Tallahassee, FL 32306-1110