Annual Report and Editorial Commentary for The Accounting Review

Abstract

T he following pages comprise my third and final Annual Report as outgoing Senior Editor of The Accounting Review (TAR). As I did back in 2008 when I first adopted the new format for the Annual Report, as directed by the Publications Committee and Executive Committee (now Board of Directors) of the American Accounting Association (AAA), I am liberally supplementing the various requested tables with my comments and observations, subject to the understanding that others are free to disagree with my interpretations. I believe that the ‘‘commentary’’ part of an Annual Report and Editorial Commentary makes the document more interesting and informative, and I hope the reader agrees. As I understand it, the spirit of the more comprehensive Annual Reports now provided by AAA journals is to provide our constituents not only with increased accountability, but also with information about our submissions and decisions that might help to address misunderstandings about the process. As in prior years, I will begin with some brief comments on TAR’s editorial process in Section II, followed by various statistics and associated commentary in Section III. Section IV closes with some notes of thanks and recognition.