accounting phd waterloo

• Exam Prep >
• Prepare for Business School >
• Business School & Careers >
• Explore Programs >
• Connect with Schools >
• How to Apply >
• Help Center >

Every journey needs a plan. Use our Career Guide to get where you want to be. 

• About the Exam
• Register for the Exam
• Plan for Exam Day
• Prep for the Exam
• About the Executive Assessment
• Register for the Executive Assessment
• Plan for Assessment Day
• Prepare for the Assessment
• NMAT by GMAC
• Shop GMAT Focus Official Prep
• About GMAT Focus Official Prep
• Prep Strategies
• Personalized Prep Plan
• GMAT Focus Mini Quiz
• Executive Assessment Exam Prep
• NMAT by GMAC Exam Prep

Prepare For Business School

• Business Fundamentals
• Skills Insight

Business School & Careers

• Why Business School
• Student Experience
• Business Internships
• B-School Go
• Quiz: Are You Leadership Material?
• MBA Return on Investment (ROI) Calculator
• Estimate Your Salary
• Success Stories
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Women in Business

Explore Programs

• Top Business School Programs
• Quiz: Which Post Graduate Program is Right for You?
• Quiz: Find the Best Program for Your Personality
• Business School Rankings
• Business Master's Programs
• MBA Programs
• Study Destinations
• Find Programs Near Me
• Find MBA Programs
• Find Master's Programs
• Find Executive Programs
• Find Online Programs

Connect with Schools

• About GradSelect
• Create a GradSelect Profile
• Prep Yourself for B-School
• Quiz: Can You Network Like An MBA?
• Events Calendar
• School Events
• GMAC Tours Events
• In-Person Events
• Online Events

How to Apply

• Apply to Programs
• The Value of Assessments
• Admissions Essays
• Letters of Recommendation
• Admissions Interviews
• Scholarships and Financing
• Quiz: What's Your Ideal Learning Style?

Help Center

• Register for the GMAT
• Create Account
• Program Finder
• PhD / Doctoral Programs
• University of Waterloo, Graduate Studies
• PhD, Accounting

• Google Scholar

Hi, I’m Seda Oz

Welcome to my website

Get in touch

• seda [dot] oz [at] uwaterloo [dot] ca
• University of Waterloo School of Accounting and Finance 200 University Avenue West Hagey Hall 3121 Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada

School of Accounting and Finance Experts

Jordan Bable

• Compensation schemes
• Employee behaviour
• External disclosures
• Investor behaviour

Steve Balaban

• Capital structure
• Corporate finance
• Creating leveraged buyout models
• Dividend policy

James Barnett

• Taxation education

• Behavioural accounting
• Judgment and decision-making

Andrew Bauer

• Agency issues in tax planning
• Corporate tax
• Data analytics
• Governance issues in tax planning

Garvin Blair

Efrim Boritz

• Decision making
• Information quality

Neil Brisley

• Abuse of stock options and equity compensation
• Corporate finance and governance
• Executive compensation
• Use of stock options and equity compensation

• Activity based costing model
• Cost management systems
• Financial accounting
• Management accounting

Darren Charters

• Business ethics
• Business law
• Employment law

Changling Chen

• Accounting conservatism
• Accounting for executive stock options
• Capital markets research on financial accounting issues

D'Arcy Delamere

• Managerial Accounting

Alan Douglas

• Corporate incentives

Robert G. Ducharme

• Managerial accounting
• Organizational control

Andrew Ecclestone

Steve Fortin

• Decision making by lawyers in private practice
• Ethical responsibilities of accountants
• Ethical responsibilities of actuaries

• Business administration and management

Frank Hayes

Ranjini Jha

• Asset pricing

Duane Kennedy

• Bankruptcy prediction
• Earnings management

Jeong-Bon Kim

Ken Klassen

• International taxation
• Multinational corporations

• Accounting and finance
• Capital marketing
• Corporate governance
• Debt contacting

Alan Macnaughton

• Personal income tax
• Tax relief for medical expenses

• Acquisitions

Patricia O'Brien

• Corporate disclosure and financial reporting

• Capital markets

Blake Phillips

• Managerial incentives
• Mutual funds

Brad Pomeroy

• Professional decision making
• Professional judgment

Linda Robinson

• Audit strategy
• Forensic accounting

Julie Robson

• Cross border loans
• International taxation in a Canada
• Tax implications of inbound investment
• Tax implications of outbound investment

• Accounting for financial institutions
• Economic consequences of accounting disclosure
• Economic consequences of accounting information

Theo Stratopoulos

• Big data analytics
• Economics of information technology
• Emerging technology adoption

James R. Thompson

• Managerial performance evaluation
• Organization designs and information disclosure

Nancy Vanden Bosch

• Finance and performance management
• Strategy and business models

• Business litigation support services
• Business valuations support services
• Corporate reorganizations
• Determining business values

• Allocation strategies for retirement savings
• Asset allocation
• Derivative securities

Adam Vitalis

• Behavioral economics
• Judgment and decision making

Christine Wiedman

• Accounting interpretation by capital markets
• Financial reporting
• Firm disclosure choices

Tony Wirjanto

• Financial risk management
• Finite mixtures of distributions
• Portfolio choice
• Statistical methodology for finance applications

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

Professional masters programs, research masters programs, doctoral programs.

© Copyright 2022 the University of Waterloo | FP2009

Faculty profiles

Mark Arnason

[email protected]

Steve Balaban

Office:  HH 174A

Phone:  519-888-4567 x48026

Email: [email protected]

Video Playlists:

Satiprasad Bandyopadhyay

Jim Barnett

Mohsin Bashir

Phone: 519-888-4567 x41866

Location: HH 3166

Email: [email protected]

Andrew Bauer

Office : HH 3112

Phone : 519-888-4567 x46516

​ Email : [email protected]

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Canada Research Chairs/Chaires de recherche du Canada

*Approved Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor

Associate Professor and Research Fellow, Assurance 

Associate Director, UW Centre for Information Integrity & Information Systems Assurance

Approved Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor 

Office: HH 289C

Greg Berberich, CPA, CA, PhD

Office: Hagey Hall 386F

Phone: 519-888-4567 x41293

Email: [email protected]

Garvin Blair

Efrim Boritz

Assurance, Information Systems

Office: Hagey Hall 289H

Phone: 519-888-4567 x45774

Email: [email protected]

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Neil Brisley

Office: Hagey Hall 383A

Phone: 519-888-4567 x48887

Office:  HH290F

Phone:  x47027

Email:  [email protected]

Education and certifications

Bachelor of Arts, Honours Economics (University of Waterloo)

Darren Charters

Office: Hagey Hall 3102

Phone: 519-888-4567 x42570

Changling Chen

Office: Hagey Hall 174B

Phone: 519-888-4567 x45731

D'Arcy Delamere

Alan douglas.

Office: Hagey Hall 3168

Phone: 519-888-4567 x45945

Robert G. Ducharme

Office: Hagey Hall 2103

Phone: 519-888-4567 ext. 40696

Andrew Ecclestone

Office: HH 383E

Phone: 519-888-4567 x41910

Krista Fiolleau

curriculum vitae

Office: Hagey Hall 175C

Phone: 519-888-4567 x48166

Email: [email protected]  

Steve Fortin

Phone:  519-888-4567 x46440

Email:   [email protected]

Office:  Hagey Hall (HH) 3163

Phone:  519-888-4567 x45133

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn:   David Ha, MAcc, CPA, CA

Frank Hayes

Herbert herauf.

Office: Hagey Hall 383F

Phone: 519-888-4567 x35133

Email: [email protected]

Profiles by type

• Faculty (74)
• Researcher (1)
• Adjunct (2)
• Teacher (1)

Hagey Hall, 3157 (519) 888-4567 x40373 ​ Support SAF Work for SAF Visit Waterloo Provide website feedback

Information for faculty and staff.

We the School of Accounting and Finance acknowledge that we live and work on the traditional territory of ‎ the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River.

Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is centralized within our  Indigenous Initiatives Office .

• Contact Waterloo
• Maps & Directions
• Accessibility

The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is co-ordinated within the Office of Indigenous Relations .

Not enough accounting PhDs?

This article was published more than 11 years ago. Some information may no longer be current.

The Globe's weekly Business School news roundup.

Accountants are in demand, but so are the PhD-trained professors who teach students heading into the profession.

"There is a supply-side problem," says Daphne Taras, dean of the Edwards School of Business at the University of Saskatchewan, with the largest accounting faculty in Western Canada. "A lot of people are attracted to the profession of accounting but as soon as they get their professional designation they become accountants and are not drawn back to academic life."

She is one of several deans who are examining the issue – and possible solutions – for the Canadian Federation of Business School Deans. A federation survey of members this year reported more than 40 unfilled positions for PhD professors of accounting, a core discipline for business students.

Concern about a shortage comes as the School of Accounting and Finance at the University of Waterloo, one of the major suppliers of PhD accounting graduates in the country, welcomes a new director July 1.

Tom Scott, currently vice-dean and professor of accounting at the Alberta School of Business at the University of Alberta, says he wants Waterloo's school to be part of the solution.

"It is an issue for anyone at any business school generally and it is an issue for us," he says.

One explanation for the shortage is the growth in business education at universities and colleges, creating competition for accounting and finance faculty. Dean Taras says she successfully recruits assistant professors at between $135,000 and $160,000 a year. "That is the price of [having] a strong accounting school," she says.

Another relates to career choices. Prospective candidates must invest between four and five years in a PhD, living on a student budget, when they could graduate with an accounting degree and immediately earn a professional salary. "It's a big opportunity cost," says Prof. Scott.

Over time, he hopes Waterloo could graduate an additional one or two more PhDs in accounting every year, compared with two at present. He wants to play on Waterloo's strength as a place where researchers across disciplines – accounting, mathematics, computer science – have a history of collaboration. Nurturing such a culture, with resources for researchers to carry out their work in a timely manner, would encourage young academics to stay the course, he says.

"The idea is to get enough quality PhDs graduated that the supply and demand gets back into balance a little better," he says. "The University of Waterloo is committed to research and good PhD programs facilitate good research because they are collaborative between the professor and the student."

Aboriginal outreach

Forging partnerships is nothing new for Kekinusuqs-Judith Sayers, a former First Nation chief who now teaches law and business at the University of Victoria.

As chief of the Hupacasath First Nation on Vancouver Island for 14 years, she made local capacity-building, sustainable development and land rights a priority. During her tenure, her community created a new source of revenue by collaborating with Ucluelet First Nation and the city of Port Alberni to sell green power (hydro-electricity produced by diverting creek water over a vertical drop) under a 20-year contract to BC Hydro.

Her appointment as National Aboriginal Economic Development Chair gives her a new platform to link native communities and those who want to work with them.

"We are in an economic revolution," says Prof. Sayers. "There are so many opportunities for First Nation communities to get involved in business."

During her appointment, which runs to April, 2013, Prof. Sayers plans to carry out research, build more relationships and, with help from students, hold a symposium this fall on aboriginal economic development.

One of her potential research topics is a review of "best practices" by First Nations and non-native companies and agencies on procurement, hiring and new ventures.

"A lot of companies are struggling with how to train First Nation people," says Prof. Sayers. "There is a lot that needs to be done."

An assistant professor at UVic's Gustavson School of Business, Prof. Sayers says business schools can do more to work with First Nation communities, through training, business workshops and student co-ops and internships.

"It is finding the need and filling the gap and making it easy for First Nation communities to come in and take advantage of the expertise that is within a business school," she says.

The national chair, established in 2005, is funded by the federal and provincial governments, Encana Corp., BC Hydro and Enbridge Inc.

Student winners

Two graduates from the University of Prince Edward Island's School of Business placed first and second in the 2012 Estey Undergraduate Essay Competition hosted by the University of Waterloo's Centre for Accounting Ethics. Janell MacDonald won top prize for her paper on ethical issues related to micro-finance in developing countries while Kristina MacLean received an honorable mention for her examination of ethical issues that may inhibit the professional careers of female accountants.

Follow Jennifer Lewington and Business School News by subscribing to an RSS feed here .

Contact Jennifer at [email protected] .

Report an editorial error

Report a technical issue

Editorial code of conduct

Tickers mentioned in this story

Study and track financial data on any traded entity: click to open the full quote page. Data updated as of 26/04/24 4:00pm EDT .

Follow related authors and topics

Authors and topics you follow will be added to your personal news feed in Following .

Interact with The Globe

• Scholarships
• Job Opportunities
• Virtual Tours

Programs to Consider

Graduate studies at university of waterloo, accounting (macc), program information, admission requirements.

* We make every attempt to provide accurate information on prerequisites, programs, and tuition. However, this information is subject to change without notice and we highly recommend that you contact the school to confirm important information before applying.

• About StudyinCanada.com
• Meet the Team
• Our Partners
• Privacy Policy
• The SchoolFinder Group

SchoolFinder.com

ScholarshipsCanada.com

• GradSchoolFinder.com
• Career-College.com
• LanguageSchoolFinder.com
• Books4Exchange.com
• SchoolFinderGroup.com
• Let's Connect
• Advertise with us
• School Administrator

Your StudyinCanada login gets you access to the whole platform!

Get matched to schools and programs, request information and learn more about career paths.

Get instantly matched to scholarships, receive deadline alerts, and find advice on scholarship applications.

Your browser does not have JavaScript enabled. Please enable JavaScript to access StudyinCanada.com. Feel free to contact us at [email protected] if you continue to experience technical difficulties.

Accounting - PhD

• Overall Course
• Requirement
• Fee & Funding
• Student Visa

English requirements

University information.

University of Waterloo

201-250th(times higher education), interested in studying accounting - phd , educational details, other details.