Seminar Series

The CPA Ontario Centre for Capital Markets and Behavioural Decision Making organizes a seminar series that includes a variety of speakers on topics related to accounting. Frequent this page for an updated list of speakers. If you would like to receive an email notification when new speakers are scheduled, email Leslie Berger.

Upcoming Seminars

Past Seminars

Luo He, Concordia University

Date: Friday, March 22, 2019
Research Talk: Creditor Control Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from Covenant Violations

Luo He received her PhD in Accounting from Queen's University. She also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Wake Forest University (USA) and a Bachelor of Economics degree from Sichuan University (China). Her research interests include financial reporting quality and corporate governance, the effect of regulation on financial reporting, voluntary disclosure, and corporate social responsibility.

Alex Edwards, Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto

Date: Friday, March 1, 2019
Research Talk: Capital Gains Taxation and Funding for Start-Ups

Alex Edwards is an Associate Professor of Accounting and the Director of the CPA Ontario Centre for Accounting Innovation Research. His research is focused on taxation and capital markets.

Aida Wahid, Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto

Date: Friday, February 8, 2019
Research Talk: The Effectiveness of SEC Monitoring of Foreign Firm Disclosures

Aida Wahid is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on issues in corporate governance and financial reporting quality.

Stefan C. Kremer, University of Guelph

Date: Friday, November 23, 2018
Research Talk: Introduction on Deep Learning

Stefan C. Kremer is the Director of the School of Computer Science at the University of Guelph and inaugural Director of the Bioinformatics Program at the same university. His interests are in machine learning and structural pattern recognition applied to biological problems.

Behavioural Accounting Symposium

Date: Friday, November 16, 2018
Event: Behavioural Accounting Symposium in conjunction with Accounting Perspectives and CAAA

The symposium featured recent research of prominent behavioural researchers and insights from practitioners that experience the behavioral implications of accounting first hand in their businesses. The symposium was generously funded by Accounting Perspectives and the CPA Ontario Centre for Capital Markets and Behavioural Decision Making.

Kevin Veenstra, McMaster University

Date: Friday, October 19, 2018
Research Talk: PEAD in a multi-period context

Kevin Veenstra is a Chartered Professional Accountant (Ontario) and a CFA charter holder. He earned his CA/CMA designations while working in the audit practice at Ernst & Young LLP (Kitchener).

Charles Cho, Schulich School of Business, York University

Date: Friday, September 28, 2018
Research Talk: CSR Performance proxies in large-sample studies: Umbrella advocates’, construct clarity and the validity police

Charles Cho is Professor of Accounting and Erivan K. Haub Chair in Business & Sustainability at the Schulich School of Business, York University.

Andrew Bauer, University of Waterloo