Accounting
Academic Areas
The Accounting area provides students with the expertise needed to begin a career as an accountant or manager. The general business education, received in other courses in the business school, together with the specific accounting curriculum provides students with a clear understanding of the relationship between accounting and related management issues. To learn more about the research interests of our faculty, please view the bios of the accounting faculty members below.

Spotlight on Research
The impact of the bullwhip effect on sales and earnings prediction using order backlog
Hsihui Chang, Jengfang Chen, Shu-Wei Hsu, Raj Mashruwala
This paper is published in Contemporary Accounting Research.
Recent work in the supply chain literature suggests that the variance in orders placed with suppliers will be larger than that of sales to buyers. This distortion in demand information increases as it is passed along the supply chain from customers to upstream suppliers and has been referred to as “the bullwhip effect.” In this paper, we argue that the bullwhip effect reduces the ability of order backlog to predict future sales and earnings for upstream suppliers. Results obtained from our empirical analysis support this proposition...

Mark Anderson
Area Chair - ACCT, Associate Professor, Richard F. Haskayne Chair - ACCT
Area of expertise: Asymmetric cost behaviour, executive compensation, information technology investment
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Philip Beaulieu
Associate Professor (On Leave)
Area of expertise: Auditing, financial accounting, managerial accounting
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Luminita Enache
Associate Professor (with tenure), Future Fund Fellow
Area of expertise: Financial accounting, security valuation, corporate finance, health care industry
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Irene Herremans
Professor Emerita, CPA Fellow in Managerial Accounting
Area of expertise: Management and environmental control systems, international business
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Wayne Irvine
Associate Professor (Teaching)
Area of expertise: Financial accounting, CPA Professional Education Program
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Stuart Jones
Associate Professor Emeritus
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Anita Lakra
Assistant Professor (Teaching)
Area of expertise: Financial accounting, managerial accounting, accounting education
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Raj Mashruwala
Associate Professor
Area of expertise: Managerial accounting, cost behaviour, performance measurement, earnings management
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Abu Shiraz Rahaman
Professor, Director - Centre for Public Interest Accounting, Research Professorship in ACCT
Area of expertise: Qualitative field studies; corruption; healthcare; NGOs
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Cynthia Simmons
Associate Professor Emerita
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Anup Srivastava
Professor, Canada Research Chair in Accounting - Decision-Making and Capital Markets
Area of expertise: Intangibles, financial reporting, digital firms, executive compensation, business strategy
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Lev Timoshenko
Assistant Professor
Area of expertise: Auditing
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JingJing Wang
Assistant Professor
Area of expertise: Financial accounting, Regulations and Standards, Disclosure, Auditing, Textual Analysis, and Machine Learning
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Hussein Warsame
Professor, CPA Fellow in Taxation
Area of expertise: Taxation
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Michael Wright
Professor
Area of expertise: Accounting education, ethics
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Rong Zhao
Associate Professor
Area of expertise: Financial reporting and disclosure, analyst and management forecasts, supply chain information
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