Association for Asian Studies Inc.

“The membership elects a representative to the board for their group.”

“The organization requires aas membership vote to make any changes to the by-laws.”

“No review was or will be conducted. The cfo examines the form 990 to ensure that it matches the audit report as well as other spreadsheets provided to the preparer.”

“Each year the officers, directors and key employees are asked to disclose and sign a list of conflict of interests.”

“Executive director's salary is reviewed by the four aas presidents who are the officers of the board of directors, this is compared to the salary of someone in a similar position.”

“The four aas presidents of the board review the salary and performance of the director of outreach and strategic initiatives.”

“The aas constitution and by-laws are made publicly available on the entity website. The conflict of interest policy is not a public document. The financial statements are made available to grant and other funding agencies upon request and on-line via guidestar.org.”

“Volunteers serve as associate journal editors, book review editors, publication advisory committee members, read books to determine book prize winners, read graduate student panel papers to determine prize winners, determine publication subventions for first time published authors, review various grant applications and determine awardees, review conference panel proposals and determine eligible panels for annual conference, help determine policy and propose panels for conferences to ensure adequate representation of geographic regions, serve on committees, councils and the board of directors.”

“The collection of membership dues, the activities to provide member benefits,and the provision of funds to aas councils to enable their activities.”

“Advertising-other 990-t -13,518 0 0 copyediting 5,052 0 0 council a mtg panel 11,209 0 0 council subvention/outreach 32,258 0 0 design/composition 20,110 0 0 development fund expense 148,918 0 0 dues 360 7,860 0 editor fringe benefits 43,589 0 0 editor release time 24,529 0 0 editorial office 1,246 0 0 foreign taxes 0 1,695 0 general expense 6 978 0 grant admin service charge 33,879 0 0 grant expense/support teachin 280,187 0 0 maintenance/serv contract 0 2,799 0 managing editor fees 83,602 0 0 office cleaning 0 1,740 0 office equipment 0 109 0 outside services 181,558 6,174 1,660 personal services 155,910 0 93,203 prize awards 14,997 0 0 readership allocation -317,432 0 0 secretariat office cost alloc -81,554 0 0 training 0 5,116 0 ubit taxes 12,000 0 0 ubit refund -2,727 0 0 ppt taxes 0 220 0 total 634,179 26,691 94,863”