【Article by iSVMS center】

On August 2, the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association (AAA) was held in San Diego. On this occasion, the long-established and prestigious organization honored Professor Anne Wu with its "Outstanding Accounting Educator Award". Already honored by two AAA awards, Anne Wu, Chair Professor of the National Chengchi University became the first Asian scholar to receive this honor in the award's 50-year history.

Professor Anne Wu returned to Taiwan after receiving her doctorate from George Washington University in 1990 and has been teaching at the National Chengchi University since then. Throughout the past 32 years, she devoted herself to teaching and academic research, and has published 75 research papers in prestigious international journals, including The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organization, and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Strategic Management Journal, Information Systems Research, Journal of International Business Studies, and Leadership Quarterly, 185 practical-oriented publications, 2 books, 6 book chapters, and 8 teaching cases. She has served in an editorial role for 7 international journals, won more than 60 awards at school, national, and international levels, including the Taiwan Ministry of Education Academic Award and three National Science Council (NSC) Outstanding Research Awards. Meanwhile, Professor Wu secured 6 trademarks and patents, and has developed 9 IT systems. She co-founded the Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Research Symposium (AMARS) that links management accounting scholars across Asia to others around the world. She is widely recognized as one of the top managerial accounting researchers and teachers in the world over the past three decades.

A colleague refers to Chair Professor Anne Wu as “the first person in Greater China to conduct academic management accounting research in English, informing people globally about management accounting in those regions and deeply influencing universities in Greater China to begin evaluating faculties' research performance based on publications in English rather than in Chinese journals.”

Professor Wu has been promoting the improvement of management accounting education in Greater China for a long time. As former students note “Dr. Wu's enthusiasm for the teaching of management accounting possesses the spirit of an evangelist, who is devoted to offering education for all students without discrimination.” She founded the Integrated Strategic Value Management System Research Center (iSVMS), which provides innovative management accounting curriculum to more than 16 universities and has impacted more than 2,000 students in Taiwan.

Professor Wu has spared no effort to cultivate the next generation. She continually arranges visits to top universities for her doctoral students, secured millions of USD in grants for research teams, and worked with more than 31 industries spanning the for profit, non-profit, and government sectors to help them implement management accounting systems and solve real-world problems. In particular, based on Activity-based Cost Management by Kaplan and Cooper, she innovatively develops “Activity Value Management (AVM)” and owns 2 patents, 8 IT systems and the National Industrial Innovation Award. Many CEOs note “Anne commands alone and moves forward like a mighty army, so she has a profound and far-reaching influence on various industries in Greater China.”

Professor Wu has dedicated herself, her life, her time, and her resources to the betterment of management accounting knowledge. She has had great impacts on research, students, businesses, academia, education, and national policies. One former student writes, “Anne has a unique charisma that helps shape the thinking of everyone she engages with in academic and industrial societies. “

Soon after becoming the first Taiwanese scholar to receive the “Outstanding International Accounting Educator Award “of the American Accounting Association (AAA), International Accounting Section (IAS) in 2021, Professor Wu was awarded the “Lifetime Contribution to Management Accounting Award” of the Management Accounting Section (MAS) in 2022. Professor Wu is not only the first in Taiwan, but also the first scholar in Asia to receive both awards. In addition, Anne is the only accounting scholar to have won three AAA awards in two consecutive years. (For more information, please refer to https://aaahq.org/Education/Awards/Press-Release/2022#oaea)