Lazaridis School of Business & Economics Accounting Symposium

Senate & Board Chambers
Friday, Nov 16, 2018 at 9:00 AM EST 
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Event Details

The Lazaridis School of Business & Economics and Accounting Perspectives are hosting a Behavioral Accounting Symposium on November 16, 2018.

The symposium features recent research of prominent behavioural researchers and insights from practitioners that experience the behavioral implications of accounting first hand in their businesses.  The symposium is generously funded by CPA Ontario and the CPA Ontario Centre for Capital Markets and Behavioral Decision Making Speaker Series.

Accounting Perspectives is a peer-reviewed forum that provides new insights in Canadian accounting research, policy, and education. The journal publishes applied research, literature reviews, commentary, educational articles, and instructional cases that speak from and speak to the accounting community in Canada. Accounting Perspectives is a journal of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association.

Friday, November 16, 2018
Senate & Board Chambers, Wilfrid Laurier University


Agenda:

TIME DESCRIPTION
8:15 a.m. Registration (light breakfast available)
9 a.m. Welcoming Remarks
Pascale Lapointe Antunes, Editor of Accounting Perspectives 
 
9:10 a.m. Session 1: Audit: Building a New Auditing Profession
External Auditors’ Judgement and Decision Making: An Audit Process Task Analysis
Dr. Regan Schmidt, University of Saskatchewan
 
Communication is a two-way street: Analyzing approaches undertaken to enhance systematic audit research knowledge transfer to policymakers
Dr. Steve Salterio, Queen’s University

Discussant: Adam Vitalis, University of Waterloo
 
The Next Generation Auditor: Developing Auditors for the

Digital Age
Krista Alexander, CPA, CA
Director, Audit Strategy & Operations at KPMG Canada
A discussion of the impact of technology advancements, including data analytics and blockchain technology, on auditors and audit firms.

 
10:35 a.m. Break
11 a.m. Session 2: Employee and Investor Motivations

Needs Versus Wants: Which Motivates More Effort?
Dr. Adam Presslee, University of Waterloo

Discussant: Chris Wong, Wilfrid Laurier University

 Managing Costs: Anecdotes of leader decision making
Jennifer Kennedy, CPA, CA
A discussion of the importance of proper management accounting controls and other lessons learned.

All That Twitters Is Not Gold: Financial Disclosures, Social Media, and Affect
Dr. Mike Wynes, Wilfrid Laurier University

Discussant: Matt Sooy, Western University
 
12:30 p.m. Lunch

Speaker: Duane Kennedy, CAAA President
 
1:30 p.m. Session 3: Tax compliance and whistleblowing behaviours
 
Guilty pleasures: An investigation of taxpayers' motivations to blow the whistle
Dr. Jonathan Farrar, Ryerson University

Discussant: Lan Guo, Wilfrid Laurier University 
 
Things that go Trump in the night: Tax compliance and the dark side of ethical leadership
Dr. Linda Thorne, York University

Discussant: Kun Huo, Western University

 
3:10 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. Session 4: Research Ideas from Up and Coming Scholars
 
Joanna Bruce, Wilfrid Laurier University
Yi Luo, Queen’s University
Errol Osecki, York University
Sara Wick, Wilfrid Laurier University

 
PhD student participation in the symposium is generously funded by CAAA. 
 
4:30 p.m. Reception


 

Speakers

Jonathan Farrar
Ryerson University
Associate Professor
Adam Presslee
University of Waterloo
Assistant Professor
Steve Salterio
Smith School of Business
Professor & Stephen J.R. Smith Chair of Accounting and Auditing
Regan Schmidt
University of Saskatchewan
Associate Professor
Linda Thorne
Schulich School of Business
Professor of Accounting
Mike Wynes
Wilfrid Laurier University
Assistant Professor
Pascale Lapointe-Antunes
Accounting Perspectives
Editor-in-Chief

Location

Senate & Board Chambers
75 University Ave W Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 CA

Tickets

Type
Price
General Admission
Free

Organizer Details

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