Events

Symposiums

The CPA Centre for Public Policy and Innovation in Accounting hosts annual symposiums that touch on a variety of topics important to the sector. To learn about past events, or make note of upcoming ones, please visit the Symposium events page.

Brown Bag Series

Dr. Amr ElAlfy

March 21, 2025

Assistant Professor at School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development (SEED), University of Waterloo

The Role of Accounting in Sustainability and Circular Economy

February 13th, 2024

Presented by Dr. Liette Vasseur, Professor of Biological Sciences, Brock University

Monitoring Agency Costs and Seasoned Equity Offerings

November 22nd, 2024

Presented by Dr. Nadia Massoud, Professor of Finance at Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne

Do Analysts’ Forecasts of Target Firm Cash Flows Improve Deal Pricing in Mergers and Acquisitions?

October 5th, 2023

Presented by Dr. Linda Myers, Professor of Accounting, Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

CEO Political Engagement and Personal SEC Prosecution

April 2022 (in person)

Presented by Dr. Ray Zhang from Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University

New Measure of Similarity in Textual Analysis: Vector Similarity Metric versus Cosine Similarity Metric

September 2022 (in person)

Dr. Rajendra Srivastava, Professor of Accounting at School of Business, University of Kansas

Joint Goodman Talk to Examine Disclosures, Social Activities of Accounting Firms

September 2022 (in person)

Dr. Jayanthi Krishnan & Dr. Jagan Krishnan
Professors of Accounting at Fox School of Business, Temple University

What Determines Influence in Social Finance? The Case of StockTwits

September 2022 (in person)

Presented by Dr. Nadia Massoud, Professor of Finance at Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne

Board Inventors and Innovation Disclosure

October 2022 (in person)

Presented by Dr. Agnes Cheng, Professor of Accounting at Steed School of Accounting, The University of Oklahoma

A Measure of Management’s Withholding of Bad News

April 2021 (via microsoft teams)

Presented by Dr. Vasiliki Athanasakou, Associate Professor of Accounting at Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University

VR Could Improve Ethical Awareness in the Accounting Profession

November 2021 (via microsoft teams)

Presented by Dr. Robert Steinbauer, Associate Professor of Business Ethics at Goodman School of Business, Brock University

Audit Production with Joint Fixed Costs: Theory and Evidence

February 2020 (in person)

Presented by Dr. Dan Simunic, Professor of Accounting, Simon Fraser University & Professor Emeritus, UBC

Does Zero Lower Bound Policy Affect Managerial Risk-Taking and Executive Compensation

February 2019 (In person)

Presented by Dr. Samir Trabelsi, Professor of Accounting, Goodman School of Business, Brock University

Collective Efficacy: Microfoundations of Control at the Last Mile in Production

February 2019 (in person) 

Presented by Dr. Paul Scarbrough, Associate Professor of Accounting, Goodman School of Business, Brock University

Does Annual Report Readability Explain the Accrual Anomaly?

March 2019 (in person)

Presented by Dr. Frank Liu, Associate Professor of Accounting, Goodman School of Business, Brock University

Experiential Education: The Push for Inclusion or Exclusion

March 2019 (in person)

Presented by Professor Glenn Skrubbeltrang, Lecturer of Accounting, Goodman School of Business, Brock University

The New Government Funding Formula

April 2019 (in person)

Presented by Dr. Staci Kenno, Associate Professor of Accounting, Goodman School of Business, Brock University

Going GAGAS for Due Process: An Examination of Yellow Book Comment Letters

November 2019 (in person)

Presented by Dr. Michelle Lau, Associate Professor of Accounting, Goodman School of Business, Brock University

Webinars

Please check back later. Information on events will be made public as they are scheduled.

SASB STANDARDS DEEP DIVE: ENTERPRISE VALUE-FOCUSED ESG REPORTING FOR INVESTORS WEBINAR

October 2021

This webinar focuses on the latest developments in the fast-changing world of ESG reporting for investors. With investor attention globally coalescing around SASB Standards and the TCFD recommendations, we hear a briefing on the rapid corporate adoption of SASB Standards based on industry-specific, financially material ESG issues. Webinar Topics include:

  • How investors are integrating ESG data into their investment decisions and stewardship
  • Ways that corporate reporting is evolving to meet the needs of more data-driven investment processes
  • Incorporating ESG factors into strategy and risk management
  • Relationship of SASB Standards to other frameworks, including GRI & SDGs
  • The changing regulatory landscape for ESG reporting

Webinar Recording

SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING

May 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the focus on various environmental, social, and governance issues by investors, policy makers, and educators. Competing frameworks, absence of a standard, measurement uncertainty, different measures of materiality, inconsistent reporting methods, boilerplate language, and comparability are numerous challenges among others hindering the widespread adoption of sustainability reporting, and these challenges are somewhat interrelated. In our Sustainability Reporting Webinar, our panelists collectively addressed these sustainability reporting challenges that are of critical importance to all the stakeholders.

Web crawling

September 2020

Introduction to python

August 2020

Textual Analysis basics

August 31