Keynote Speakers

Terry Shevlin
University of California-Irvine
President Elect, American Accounting Association

Professor Terry Shevlin is a professor of accounting, Paul Merage Chair in Business Growth, Associate Dean of Research and Doctoral Programs at the UCI Paul Merage School of Business. He earned his PhD from Stanford University in 1986 and joined the faculty at the University of Washington where he worked for 26 years until joining UCI in the summer of 2012. He visited the University of Iowa in 1991-92. He held the Paul Pigott/Paccar Professor of Business Administration from 2004-2012. While at Washington he held various administrative position: faculty director of the PhD Program 1998-2006 and Accounting Department Chair from 2006-2012. He has served as editor on three academic journals: Journal of the American Taxation Association (1996-1999), Senior Editor, The Accounting Review (2002-2005) and Co-editor, Accounting Horizons (2009-2012) and on numerous editorial boards (including the top four accounting journals). He has published over 45 articles in the very top accounting and finance journals.

He has received a number of awards for his research and mentoring of PhDs the most recent being named the American Accounting Association Outstanding Educator for 2012. He was also named the American Taxation Association 2005 Ray M. Sommerfeld Outstanding Tax Educator. He has won the American Taxation Association Tax Manuscript Award four times (in 2017, 2004, 1995, and 1992) and twice won the AAA Competitive Manuscript for young scholars (1990 and 1987). He was awarded the UW Business School Dean’s Faculty Research Award four times. 

His research interests are broad and include the effect of taxes on business decisions and asset prices, capital markets-based accounting research, earnings management, employee stock options, research design and statistical significance testing issues.

His teaching interests: financial accounting, taxes and business decisions, empirical research methodology.

He has spoken at numerous doctoral consortiums.

Dan Simunic
Simon Fraser University & Emeritus Professor, The University of British Columbia

Professor Dan Simunic has served as visiting Professor at various universities around the world. Dan’s research interests are in the economics of auditing and in international auditing. He has published research papers in numerous scholarly journals, including the Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting & Economics, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory. Dan obtained a Ph.D. in economics and accounting from the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago in 1979. He worked in the Chicago office of Ernst & Ernst (now Ernst & Young) for four years, and served for 10 years as a technical advisor from Canada to the International Auditing Practices Committee (now the International Auditing & Assurance Standards Board) of the International Federation of Accountants. Dan is a U.S. CPA (State of Illinois) and a (former) FCGA (British Columbia). Dan served as Co-Editor of Contemporary Accounting Research from 1997 to 2000, and as the Editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory from 2005-2008 and is currently a Co-Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics.