originally posted by the AAA on May 14, 2025
The American Accounting Association (AAA) announced recently Jay Thibodeau, Director of the Kenneth G. Dixon School of Accounting for the College of Business at UCF, as the recipient of the 2025 AAA-AICPA-Bea Sanders EDGE in Teaching Award. Dr. Thibodeau, along with Cody Hyman an Caitlin Landy, was recognized for his work on “Personal Waste Reports: A learning strategy designed to engage principles of financial accounting students through Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting.”
This AAA award, which is sponsored by the AICPA, will be presented to the authors in the form of unique glass art pieces and a monetary award at the Wednesday, Aug. 6 plenary session at the 2025 AAA Annual Meeting to be held in Chicago.
Thibodeau, who joined UCF in 2024, is a former auditor and CPA. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Connecticut in 1987 and his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 1996. He has authored two books, Auditing and Assurance Services and Auditing and Accounting Cases: Investigating Issues of Fraud and Professional Ethics, as well as over 70 articles and books chapters and has been published in top journals including Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Journal of Information Systems, Accounting Horizons, and Issues in Accounting Education. A member of the Board of Directors at the AAA, he has been nationally recognized for his work 10 times, including the 2001 Joint AICPA/AAA Collaboration Award, the 2016 AAA Forensic Accounting Section’s Teaching Innovation Award, and AAA Auditing Section’s Innovation in Assurance Education Award in 2019 and 2023.
A former bank regulator, Hyman received her B.A. from Clark University in Economics and Sociology, her M.A. in Economics from George Washington University, and her Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Maryland. She teaches Introduction to Financial Reporting and Analysis and Practice and Application in Accounting and Finance at Bentley University.
Landy is a former auditor and CPA who earned her bachelor’s degree from Providence College in 2016 before joining PwC. She is a Ph.D. candidate at Bentley University where she conducts experimental audit research and teaches Introduction to Financial Reporting and Analysis. She received the Accounting Doctoral Scholar award issued by AICPA and the Rauch Doctoral Fellowship from Bentley University in 2022.
The AAA-AICPA-Bea Sanders EDGE in Teaching Award is intended to recognize and disseminate successful leading-edge teaching practices in the first courses (freshmen, sophomore, and community college) that entice a student’s interest in accounting and encourages them to pursue the CPA profession as a career. More information about this award is available online at https://aaahq.org/About/Directories/2024-2025-AAA-Committees-Task-Forces/Award-Committees/AICPA-Bea-Sanders-Award-Committee/Award-Criteria.