Speakers
Ivory tower or echo chamber? Research impact strategies for bridging the gap between academia and industry
An informal, interactive discussion about the opportunities and challenges in research partnerships with industry
Date: Friday, April 16, 2021
Time: 12:45 pm – 1:15 pm Eastern
Moderator - Mitchell Stein is an Associate Professor of Managerial Accounting and Control at the Ivey Business School and Director of the CPA-Ivey Centre for Accounting and the Public Interest. Mitchell holds a PhD in Management from Queen's University and is a Chartered Professional Accountant who formerly practiced in taxation with Deloitte for over 10 years. Mitchell investigates corporate governance, transparency, regulation and impacts on society across financial accounting, taxation and government auditing. His research has appeared in leading accounting journals including Accounting, Organizations and Society; Contemporary Accounting Research; and Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. He is a recipient of an Ivey’s school wide research merit award.
Guest Speaker - Leonie Phillips is Director of Research and Thought Leadership at CPA Ontario. Leonie has spent two decades developing and publicising research and ideas around the world. Most recently she worked as chief of staff to a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Prior to moving to North America, Leonie produced editorial content and events for The Economist Group in Hong Kong and London. She founded and later sold a thought leadership agency in Sydney, Australia and has held public affairs and communications roles at a public policy think-tank, a cancer clinical trials centre and in book publishing. For a number of years Leonie produced and presented a radio program on books and writing and she holds a Master of Bioethics (Hons) from Sydney University.
Global pandemic: Research opportunities and Pitfalls
Date: Saturday, April 17, 2021
Time: 10:00 am – 11:15am Eastern
Panel Moderator - Bertrand Malsch is Associate Professor of Accounting at the Smith School of Business at Queens University since 2013. He holds a PhD in accounting from Laval University and is a member of the Quebec Bar. He is the author of numerous leading articles in international academic journals on the subject of auditing, accounting regulation and governance. His work has been presented in many scholarly and professional conferences around the world. He is associate editor of the Behavioral Review of Accounting, Accounting Horizons, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, and Accounting and Business Research. He also serves on the editorial board of Accounting, Organizations and Society, and Contemporary Accounting Research.
His current work funded by SSHRC and Smith research grants focuses on the role of accounting firms in tax avoidance mechanisms and the financial reporting processes of Indigenous communities. He regularly contributes to public policy discussions by publishing editorials reflecting the content of his research. Bertrand serves as a member of the Cannabis Oversight Committee established by the Cannabis Regulation Act in Quebec in 2019. Bertrand is also an active member of the Extended External Reporting Advisory Group set by the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board in Canada in 2020 to discuss the future of auditing practice.
Panelist - Charles H. Cho, PhD, CPA, is Professor of Accounting and the Erivan K. Haub Chair in Business & Sustainability at the Schulich School of Business, York University. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting, a Master of Science in Accounting, and a PhD in Business Administration (Accounting Track) from the University of Central Florida. He also worked for KPMG LLP and other public accounting firms for several years in auditing and taxation. His research interests include Social and Environmental Accounting; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); and Accounting and the Public Interest. Professor Cho has published papers in prestigious academic journals such as Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, the European Accounting Review, and the Journal of Business Ethics.
He currently serves as an Editor of Accounting Forum, the Accounting and Business Ethics Section Co-Editor of the Journal of Business Ethics and is an Editorial Board member of 14 other academic journals. He is regularly invited as plenary keynote speaker at international conferences and is actively involved in the academic community as a Council member of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research and Chair of the International Associates Committee. Finally, he has taught financial and managerial accounting courses and designed some CSR/sustainability and business ethics courses at the undergraduate, graduate (MBA, MSc), PhD levels as well as in executive programs for corporate managers.
Panelist - Natalie T. Churyk, Ph.D., CPA is the William F. Doyle Endowed Professor of Accountancy at Northern Illinois University (NIU) and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Accounting Education. She joined NIU in 2001 after her doctoral studies and now mostly teaches at the graduate level. Significant service includes: editorial review board member of the Journal of Forensic & Investigative Accounting; AAA GIWB President – Elect (2019 – 2020); AAA Council (2016 – 2019); President, AAA TLC (2016 - 2018); Vice-President, AAA TLC 2014 - 2016; Co-President of the AAA Midwest Region (prior acting President and Vice president) (2013 - 2015); Treasurer of AAA TLC (2009 – 2013); Chair/Co-Chair – the TLC, FIA, and Midwest sections/region Membership Acquisition and Retention committees over the periods 2008-2012; and various other committee member appointments such as the AAA National Membership Committee (2011-2014) and AAA Regions Strategic/Pilot Task Force (now known as Strategic Leader Region Committee) (2012 – 2017).
Her research contributes to topics in financial reporting, fraud/ethics, education, and auditing. She has over 120 conference presentations and has amassed over 50 publications in academic and professional journals such as: Journal of Business Research, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Accounting Education, Journal of Forensic Accounting Research, Strategic Finance, CPA Journal, Journal of Accountancy, Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting, Advances in Accounting Education, Global Perspectives on Accounting Education, and Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research. She is a co-author on three textbooks published by John Wiley & Sons: Accounting and Auditing Research: Tools and Strategies, Mastering the FASB’s Codification and eIFRS: A Case Approach, and Accounting & Auditing Research and Databases: Practitioner’s Desk Reference. For over ten years she was actively involved in developing and delivering CPA Exam Review seminars for NIU and contributed for five years to the Wiley CPA Exam Review: Financial Accounting and Reporting text.
Panelist - Yves Gendron is Full Professor of Accounting at Université Laval, in Québec City. Yves is highly committed to qualitative research. One of his main endeavors as qualitative researcher is to better understand key features of public accountants’ daily lives, such as how they make decisions in action or how they go through difficult and stressful situations. Yves is also interested in legitimization processes surrounding public accountants’ claims to expertise, seeking to comprehend how public accountants attempted to establish their presence in the jurisdictions of performance measurement, online auditing, and consulting. As such, his research in the area has contributed to the development of a social critique regarding the extent of commercialism within the field of public accounting.
Yves has also studied corporate governance processes within public companies, focusing on the role of audit committees and that of compensation committees. He also carried out several epistemological studies, having examined objects such as the relationship between research and practice, the birth of the interpretive paradigm of accounting research, and the extent of performativity pressures in contemporary academia.
Yves’ academic work has been published in a variety of journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society; Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Contemporary Accounting Research; European Accounting Review, Journal of Management Studies and Organization Studies. He is currently Co-Editor of Critical Perspectives on Accounting, and Associate Editor at Contemporary Accounting Research.
Panelist - Amy M. Hageman is the KPMG Professor of Accounting in Kansas State University’s Department of Accounting. She previously served as Chair of the Public Interest Section of the AAA from 2016–2020, and was an associate editor at Accounting and the Public Interest before beginning her role as Senior Editor. Her primary research interest is on public interest elements of taxation, focusing on tax professional/taxpayer decision making and antecedents and consequences of tax policy. She has published in a variety of journals, including Accounting, Organizations, and Society; The Journal of the American Taxation Association; Behavioral Research in Accounting; Journal of Business Ethics; Accounting and the Public Interest; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy; and others.