At the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association (AAA) in San Francisco, August 7-11, 2005, our faculty member Mine Aksu was elected as one of the 14 Country Directors of the International Accounting Section (IAS) of the AAA for the second year in a row. As the Country Director for Turkey, some of her responsibilities are promoting membership in the AAA; nominating needy universities for gift memberships; starting a liaison between Turkish accounting/auditing associations and the AAA; and arranging for the announcements (and links) of international conferences organized in Turkey to appear on the IAS website.