AAA/Deloitte LLP/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium

The Doctoral Consortium, sponsored by the American Accounting Association (AAA) and Deloitte LLP, through a contribution from former firm Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and former Foundation Chairman J. Michael Cook, gives advanced doctoral students a chance to meet with some of the country's most distinguished faculty in a collegial atmosphere. The Consortium, which has been offered since 1971, focuses on issues that are most pressing to faculty and to students who are about to become professors, including theoretical and applied research, teaching and career development. Testimonials about the Consortium.

Deloitte LLP/Federation of Schools of Accountancy Faculty Consortium

Deloitte, in collaboration with the Federation of Schools of Accountancy, sponsors a faculty consortium for accounting educators. The objective of the Consortium is to provide faculty with a better understanding of practice issues and to deliver best practice information that participants can incorporate into their institutions' curricula. The program is delivered as a combination of presentations from thought leaders in practice and experienced educators at leading accounting programs.

Professorships

University faculty play a critical role in educating the profession's next generation of business leaders. To bring the best and brightest teachers to the classroom, over the years contributions from the organization's people and the Deloitte Foundation have funded $10 million to establish several dozen faculty fellowships, professorships and chairs in the organization's name. Professorships provide financial support to university faculty and assist institutions in attracting and retaining the most talented professors.

Tax Faculty Symposium

Each year the Tax Faculty Symposium exposes about 30 tax professors to the latest technical and business knowledge from our specialists on practice, regulatory and policy issues in taxation. Technical discussions center around various taxation topics, including updates on new legislation, mergers and acquisitions, and estate, gift and international tax matters. Faculty participants also learn about the organization's national tax practice strategy and services and its approach to professional development.

Trueblood Seminars for Professors

To stay abreast of change in the business world, practitioners need the help of creative faculty and faculty need strong contact with practicing accountants. The Trueblood Seminars, sponsored by Deloitte and the American Accounting Association, offer a way to accomplish this. Our professionals re-create actual, difficult cases they have encountered in practice. Faculty then propose possible solutions. Other sessions have one group of faculty act as auditors and another as clients. The groups reenact a difficult case and see the challenges from two perspectives. The Seminars are rounded out with guest speakers from the Financial Accounting Standards Board, corporations and other groups in addition to Deloitte. Since 1966, more than 2,000 professors have come away from the Seminars with case materials to use in their classrooms and, often, with ideas for research.

Fifty cases used at recent seminars (known as the Trueblood Case Study Series) are available for download.

University of Illinois Tax Research Symposium

The University of Illinois Tax Research Symposium, sponsored by Deloitte, is held biannually and aims to stimulate tax research in two ways. First, the program provides an opportunity for tax researchers to expose their ideas and obtain feedback from leading tax researchers. Second, it provides a forum for new and leading researchers to exchange ideas about current issues and research methods. Attendees have included a blend of accomplished authors and leading tax researchers within academia. Representatives of the profession and the Treasury Department have also participated in prior symposia.

University of Kansas Auditing Symposium

The Deloitte Foundation since 1976 has sponsored the University of Kansas Auditing Symposium, which offers a forum for faculty participants to review current research and evaluate and suggest topics for future research. Internationally known researchers, practitioners and thought leaders from the public and private sectors participate and share research ideas, methods, techniques and theories.