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BBB-Online seal. There was no significant difference between the purchasing behavior

involving sites with the BBB-Online and sites without a seal.Bowen and Rohde extend a previous study to gain additional evidence on querying with

first normal form versus third normal form databases in Further Evidence of the Effects of

Normalization on End User Query Errors: An Experimental Evaluation. They report results

of an experiment in which participants formulated queries based on 1NF and 3NF database

tables. Results confirm earlier research findings that end users are more accurate in querying

1NF data structures than in querying 3NF data structures. The prior research is extended to

reveal that the differences in accuracy are driven by differences in attribute selection, table

selection, and row restriction clauses within the queries. They also examined user confidence

in the accuracy of their queries and observed that increased accuracy was not accompanied by

increased confidence.These three diverse papers reflect the diversity of the field of accounting information

systems. We sincerely appreciate the authors and the reviewers, who worked feverishly to put

each paper through three rounds of rigorous review. We also appreciate the feedback from the

discussants and audience participants at the Second IRSAIS who helped the authors improve

these papers. We believe all three papers are well written, interesting, and raise important

questions to be addressed in future research. We hope you enjoy them as much as we have!

Cheryl L. Dunn*Department of Accounting

Florida State University

Tallahassee, FL 32306-1110, USA

E-mail address:cheryl.dunn@fsu.edu

Severin V. Grabski

Michigan State University, USA

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +1-850-644-7878.

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