[3] AAA also focuses on: information systems, artificial intelligence/expert systems, public interest, auditing, taxation (the American Taxation Association is a Section of the AAA), international accounting, teaching, and curriculum.

Incorporation papers in the District of Columbia in the name of “The American Association of University Instructors in Accounting” were registered in 1916 as noted in the AAA's 50 year history, American Accounting Association: Its First Fifty Years, 1916–1966.

The Association's centennial volume, Years of Transition: The American Accounting Association 1991-2016, is a "contextualized history of the AAA, with close attention paid to the AAA’s interactions with its institutional, economic, educational, technical, professional, regulatory, and social environment.

[10] Regional Section conferences are also held in the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Northeast, Ohio, Southeast, Southwest and West.

The Accounting Hall of Fame established at Ohio State University in 1950 is maintained by the AAA.