Hussein Warsame

Dr. Hussein Warsame is the Chair of the Accounting Area at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary and the Certified General Accountants (CGA) Faculty Fellow. He holds a BSc in Chemistry from Somali National University, an MBA with a concentration in accounting from California State University-Fresno and a PhD in Management with a major in accounting from University of Calgary. Dr. Warsame joined the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business in 2000. Prior to that, he was a faculty member in the John Molson School of Business of Concordia University in Montreal for 5 years. He also taught in United Arab Emirates University, UNIQWA (South Africa), and the Somali National University.

His teaching interests are in taxation and financial accounting. In addition to the undergraduate programs, Dr. Warsame taught students in MBA, Executive MBA and Aviation MBA programs. He also supervised PhD candidates in accounting. He is a winner of the University of Calgary Student Union Teaching Excellence Award (Honorable mention 2008), the 2007 Chartered Accountants’ Education Foundation Teaching Excellence Prize, the 2002 Chartered Accountants' Education Foundation Teaching Award and the 2002-2003 Haskayne School of Business Commerce Undergraduate Society Teaching Excellence Award.



His research interests are in taxation, financial accounting and auditing. Dr. Warsame has published in such refereed journals as: Accounting, Organization and Society (AOS), Accounting and the Public Interest (API), Journal of American Taxation Association (JATA), Journal of International Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation (JIAAT), Asia-Pacific Journal of Taxation (APJT), Accounting Perspectives (AP), and the Journal of Applied Accounting Research (JAAR). Prizes won by Dr. Warsame's research include the Vernon K. Zimmerman Best Paper Award presented by the Center for International Education and Research in Accounting in 1999. Dr. Warsame served in the Editorial Review Boards of several accounting and business journals, including the Journal of Business Research (JBR), and Accounting Education – An International Journal. He also serves as a reviewer for several accounting journals.



Examples of Research Publications


• “Effects of Capital Gains Taxation Changes on Stock Prices: Evidence from the February 2000 Canadian Budget” with Akinloye Akindayomi, Accounting Perspectives (a CAAA Journal), Volume 6, Issue 4 Winter 2007.


• “Environmental Disclosure and Legitimation in the Annual Report – Evidence from the Joint Solutions Project” with C. Simmons, and N. Higginson, Journal of Applied Accounting Research, Volume 8, Issue ii, December 2006, pp 1-40


• “The Evolutionary Advances in Tax Education in Canada and the Hegemonic Leadership of the Accounting Profession,” Journal of Economics & Administrative Sciences (ISSN 1026-4116), 2006, pp 60-84 


• Managing Regulatory Action: Annual Disclosure Responses to Environmental Fines 
with D. Neu and C. Simmons. Accounting and the Public Interest, April 2002.
 

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