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Accounting & Financial Management Services

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About the area

Financial reporting, disclosure, corporate governance, executive compensation, auditing. These topics are in the headlines every day. Faculty in the Accounting and Financial Management Services area at DeGroote are researching these and other current issues in the industry.

Collaboration with industry, including accounting firms and regulatory bodies, is key to DeGroote’s Accounting and Financial Management Services area. Most faculty hold professional designations, such as CPA and CFA, as well as academic credentials including PhDs. This collaboration ensures that faculty research is relevant to the accounting profession and that student learning is aligned with industry practice.

Faculty members are highly cited and published in top-tier journals including the Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Accounting Research and the Journal of Banking & Finance.

DeGroote’s accounting program emphasizes the fundamental theories and current issues in the field. Accounting courses in both the honours commerce and MBA programs are recognized by professional accounting organizations in Canada, and students are eligible to obtain advanced standing for earning a professional accounting designation.

Faculty

Dr. Justin Jin

Dr. Justin Jin

Professor / Director of the CPA Ontario Centre for Accounting Research in Regulatory Reporting

jinjus@mcmaster.ca

Dr. Susan McCracken

Dr. Susan McCracken

Professor / Area Chair, Accounting and Financial Management Services (acting)

smccrac@mcmaster.ca

Aadil Merali Juma

Aadil Merali Juma

Assistant Professor / Director, Graduate Diploma in Professional Accountancy Program

jumaas@mcmaster.ca

Faculty Emeritus

In the News

Research Seminar Schedule

DSB 505

Speakers

Yi Luo

Assistant Professor, Managerial Accounting and Control, Ivey Business School, University of Western

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No registration required. Please join us in person at DSB 505.
Light refreshments will be served.

DSB 505

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Kevin Veenstra

Associate Professor of Acounting, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University

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DSB 505

Speakers

Xiaoli Tian

Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business - Georgetown University

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DSB 505

Speakers

Michael Yip

Assistant Professor , J.M. Tull School of Accounting, University of Georgia

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DSB 505

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Muskan Chawla

Assistant Professor, Accounting and Information Systems Division, UBC, Sauder School of Business

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DSB 505

Speakers

Kaouthar Lajili

Professor in Finance and Accounting, Telfer School of Business, University of Ottawa

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