2024 Haskayne and Fox Accounting Conference

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The closest airport to Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise is Calgary International Airport (YYC). Calgary International Airport (YYC) is located approximately 125 miles (200 km) East of the resort. Most major airline carriers fly into Calgary.

From Calgary International Airport (YYC)

• Exit the airport and turn left on Airport Trail NE towards Deerfoot Trail heading north.
• Take the exit towards Stoney Trail NE heading west.
• Follow signs for Banff on the Trans-Canada Hwy.
• Continue on the Trans-Canada Hwy (Highway 1 ) for approximately 1-hour until you reach the Banff National Park entrance gates. The gates are open 24-hours as all visitors to the park are required to obtain a Park Pass. Passes can be obtained in advance through Banff Lake Louise Tourism.
• After the gates, continue driving West until you reach the Lake Louise exit.
• Turn left towards Village of Lake Louise, continue driving straight on Lake Louise Drive until you reach Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise.

Airport Car Rental

Many car rental providers operate out of the Calgary International Airport (Avis, Budget, Enterprise, National, etc.). 

Airport Shuttle

Airport shuttles are available via Pursuit from the Calgary International Airport to Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise with regularly scheduled service. Reservations are required at least 1 hour in advance. Schedules and rates are subject to change without notice.

Please email the hotel's concierge team for current schedules and pricing (CLL.Concierge@Fairmont.com)

Hotel Parking

The hotel is connected to a partially covered parkade with plug-ins.

Parking is available to our overnight in-house guests at the following rates:
Self-parking: $40 per day
Valet Parking: $55 per day

Need a car while in Lake Louise? 

Did you decide that you want a car to go exploring? Visit Hertz in Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise or visit their website for reservations.

Rajiv Banker Memorial Keynote (Monday morning)

• Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for Executive Education, for Faculty Development, and for Faculty Recruiting.

  A distinguished graduate of the University of Bombay, Datar received gold medals upon graduation from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. A Chartered Accountant, he holds two master's degrees and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

  Datar’s research and course development has been in the areas of cost management and management control, strategy implementation, governance, and, more recently, management education, design thinking and innovative problem solving, and machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has published his work on activity-based management, quality, productivity, time-based competition, new product development, bottleneck management, incentives, and performance evaluation in journals such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Management Science. He co-authors the leading cost accounting textbook, Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis (Prentice-Hall) and Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads (Harvard Business Press). He has authored over 30 cases on topics ranging from Data Science at Target to Nippon Steel.

  Datar has taught MBA and executive education classes in design thinking, innovation, big data, and strategy implementation. Before joining the HBS faculty he held appointments at both Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University, where he received the George Leland Bach Award for Excellence in the Classroom and the Distinguished Teaching Award, respectively.

  Datar serves on the Board of Directors of ICF International, Stryker Corporation, and T-Mobile US, and has worked with many corporations on consulting and field-based projects. He was honoured by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) as the Public Company Director for 2020.  He is a member of the American Accounting Association and the Institute of Management Accountants. He has served on the editorial board of several journals and presented his research to academic and executive audiences in North America, South America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.

2024 Leadership Panelists (Monday morning) 

• Gord Graham has spent 39 years working with EY’s Assurance practice, including 28 as a client serving partner. Gord has been EY’s Assurance leader for Alberta and Western Canada and the overall lead client service partner for EY Canada. Gord has also been a member of EY North America’s Partner Advisory Forum and the Canadian Partnership Board. He is a former member of the Canadian Accounting Standards Board. Gord oversaw the formation for EY’s Climate Change and Sustainability practice in Western Canada and has been provided both financial statement audit and ESG assurance services to many of Canada’s largest public companies. Gord has been actively involved in discussions with investment managers, senior corporate management and board members on the development and expected direction of sustainability reporting under the various global frameworks and on its relevance and reliability for investor decision making.
• Kevin Reinhart is a retired CA who held various roles in public accounting and public company executive leadership.  He graduated from Saint Mary's University with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1981 and earned his CA designation in 1984. He spent 13 years with the predecessor firms to KPMG, including a few years in the firm's National Department of Professional Practice where he undertook research and advised offices across the country on accounting and securities matters. After KPMG he moved into the oil and gas industry with Nexen Inc. (formerly Canadian Occidental Petroleum) where he spent time in various finance functions including corporate controller, treasurer, risk management, strategic planning and business development. He was also given the responsibility to enhance the company's oil and gas reserves determination process and its exploration process despite having no engineering or geological training. He eventually became CFO and ultimately the CEO. Shortly thereafter, Nexen was acquired by CNOOC Limited (a Chinese state-owned enterprise) for $19 billion. Following the acquisition, Mr. Reinhart stayed with CNOOC as President of their Western-world operations before retiring in 2014.  He is currently the Chair of Enerflex Ltd., a publicly-listed global natural gas equipment manufacturer located in Calgary.
• Rachel Miller, FCPA, FCA, serves as the CEO of CPA Alberta. Since assuming this role on January 1, 2015, she has guided the profession's transformation under the Chartered Professional Accountants banner, establishing a strong vision and foundation for the organization. Rachel previously held the positions of CEO and Executive Director at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta (ICAA) and CMA Alberta, along with being the ICAA's Director of Practice Review from 2006-2013. With a Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from McMaster University, she has worked with accounting firms across Ontario and Alberta. Rachel is the former chair of the Canadian CPA profession’s Council of Chief Executives and CPA Canada’s National Public Trust Committee. She is also the Executive Director of the CPA Education Foundation of Alberta, and Executive Director of the CPA Assist program. As well, Rachel sits on the Board of the CPA Western School of Business. As a community leader, Rachel actively volunteers and supports youth through the 4-H organization.
• Gordon Beal has over 35 years of leadership experience with an overarching focus on leading change, enhancing organizational learning and sustainability. Gord is the Senior Vice President of Outreach at Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) Alberta, and he oversees the operations and strategic direction of the CPA Education Foundation. Previously, Gord spent almost 18 years with CPA Canada, most recently as Vice President of Research, Guidance and Support. In this role, he led a team of professionals focused on standards guidance, exploratory applied research, and thought leadership. As a change leader, Gord led numerous organization-wide initiatives including member support for the transition to International Standards in Financial Reporting and Assurance, development of a comprehensive portfolio of resources on the role of accountants in Climate Change, and most recently in Foresight: Reimagining the Profession which explored and is helping to shape the future of the CPA profession. In 2020, Gord was named to Canada’s Clean50, which recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of sustainability and clean capitalism in Canada. Earlier in his career, Gord held a variety of senior financial and operational leadership roles in business and government. He has served on non-profit Boards, chaired the Finance and Audit Committee, and provided volunteer advisory support for a variety of local and national non-profit organizations. With a passion for education and good governance, Gord was a founding board member for the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Professional Accounting Centre, and a board member for St. Mary’s University’s Centre for Excellence in Accounting and Reporting for Cooperatives and the University of Waterloo’s Centre for Information Security and Assurance. He has been a guest lecturer for various university programs and has presented in Canada and internationally on a range of emerging business and accounting topics. In addition to an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Commerce from the University of Toronto, Gord holds a Bachelor of Education and Master of Education from Brock University. In 2021 Gord was granted a Fellow of Chartered Professional Accountants.

Keynote (Monday lunch)

• Cree + Métis, Keeta Gladue serves as the Manager of the Indigenous Research Support Team in Research Services. Her role is to support ethical, community-engaged research with Indigenous Peoples and communities at the University of Calgary. She also collaborates with Senior Leadership to ensure research at UCalgary is in alignment with ii' taa'poh'to'p and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action.

  As an Indigenous researcher, her fields of study are post-secondary student mental health and wellness, Truth and Reconciliation in higher education, and Indigenizing academic integrity and Artificial Intelligence. A two-time TEDx speaker, Keeta seeks to spark change and inspire momentum toward a shared future of flourishing and excellence in education.

2024 Editors Panel (Tuesday lunch)(full bios to come)

• Philip Berger 
• Partha Mohanram 
• Jenny Tucker

Elnaz Basirianmahabadi has just completed the first year of her PhD in accounting. Her background is in finance and she has worked in the investment industry for nearly a decade as an investment manager and financial advisor. Her current interest is working on intangible assets and their valuation or their impact on the quality of reported earnings of companies. She is also very interested in the study of the relationship between the markets, i.e. the money market and the capital market, and she is trying to create a more effective relationship between accounting and finance by using a better understanding of accounting knowledge. Improving accounting rules and regulations and accepted accounting principles can greatly help both companies and users of financial statements such as investors.

Jonathan Tanone is a PhD student at Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. He studies business combinations, intangibles, and knowledge transfers in new economy firms. He is an accounting professional with diverse auditing and advisory experience.

Kaixuan Zhang is a second-year accounting Ph.D. student at the University of Calgary. His current research interest is intangible assets. Specifically, he is working on the utilization efficiency of intangible vs physical assets. He received his bachelor's and master’s degree in accounting from Iowa State University. Prior to joining the Ph.D. program, he was a Certified Public Accountant and worked at a public accounting firm in Des Moines, Iowa for two years.

Wenyu Zhou joined the PhD program at the Haskayne School of Business in 2022, specializing in Accounting under the supervision of Associate Professor Luminita Enache. Wenyu's research primarily focuses on cyber-relevant disclosure. In addition, her studies encompass cyberattacks on organizations and the corresponding expenditures. She was also a recipient of the CPA Grant in 2023. With a deep-seated interest in her field, Wenyu is keen to further explore the evolving intersections of accounting, disclosure, and cyber security in her future studies.

Xinyi Peng, a second-year accounting Ph.D. student at the Haskayne School of Business, is doing research in the financial accounting field. Particularly, she is passionate about the intangible capital of the company and dedicates to identifying and quantifying it by doing textual analysis based on nature language model. Prior to her Ph.D. journey, she went to the University of Missouri and Clemson before her one-year industry practice as an accountant and tax practitioner.

Joon-Hong Kim joined Temple University's PhD program in Accounting in 2022 as a Presidential Fellow. His primary research interests include financial accounting and government procurement. Before joining Temple Fox, he served as a government auditor in place of mandatory military service in South Korea. He holds a bachelor's degree from Yonsei University and a master's degree from KAIST.

Ruikai Ji is a third-year Ph.D. student in accounting at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. He received a Master’s degree in accounting from UC San Diego and a Bachelor’s degree from Central University of Finance and Economics. He is interested in studying strategic disclosures and the use of value-relevant information.

Yujie Ma joined the PhD program in Accounting at the Fox School of Business in Fall 2022. Her primary research interests are in financial accounting, particularly in capital markets, banking, and disclosures. She has a strong interest in utilizing textual analysis and machine learning in her research. Yujie holds a Master of Accounting degree from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor and a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Western Washington University. Before entering the PhD program, she worked as an internal auditor in the real estate industry.

About the Chateau Lake Louise (HFAC Conference Hotel)

Surrounded by soaring mountain peaks, the majestic Victoria Glacier and a glistening emerald lake, the iconic Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise hotel is located in Alberta's Banff National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is recognized globally for progressive environmental stewardship and responsible tourism. 

Business Centre and Printing Services

• The hotel has a business center; however, there is no printer
• For printing, guests can email the front desk directly at cll.frontdesk@fairmont.com

Baby-sitting/Pet-sitting Services

• Babysitting services can be arranged through My Hotel Sitter (external vendor)
• The hotel offers pet-sitting (see page 10 of the summer activity guide)

Restaurants

• The conference hotel has six in-house dining outlets and offers an afternoon tea
• Reservations are recommended for all hotel dining outlets except for Louiza at breakfast time and Alpine Social, which are both on a first -come, first-serve basis.
• Your HAC conference registrations fees include most of your meals; however, there is no scheduled conference meal on the night of Tuesday, June 25 (dinner-on-your-own)

Spa and Fitness Facilities

• The spa offers a variety of spa services 
• Book online, by phone (+1 (403) 522-1545) or by email (cll.thespa@fairmont.com) 
• The hotel's outdoor pool may be under construction in June 2024; however, the indoor pool should still be available for use

Weather

The weather in Lake Louise in June is warm, with a chance of rain, typically ranging from 3-17 Celsius or 37.4-62.6 Fahrenheit. The average maximum daytime temperature lies around 17.0°C (62.6°F).

Wildlife/Parks Safety Tips

The conference hotel is surrounded by astoundingly beautiful wilderness. Please click here for some wildlife safety information. 

Activities

Looking for some fun summer activities? Please click here for information on local activities and adventures 

Going for a hike? The hotel’s concierge desk has bear spray and hiking poles for hotel guests to borrow.

Heading to Banff? Banff is a nearby town with lots of shopping and dinning options available. If you want to visit Banff – but haven’t rented a car – you can take the Roam Bus (public bus).