The long term vision of the CPA Ontario Center for Public Policy and Innovation in Accounting is to enable the convergence of scholars across disciplines for study and dialogue on the future state of the accounting profession.
Current Events
Events will be added here as they are scheduled. Please check back later to see 2023 events.
Past Events
CPA Ontario Center Symposium 2022
Friday, November 11, 2022
The CPA Centre for Public Policy and Innovation in Accounting at the Goodman school of Business was pleased to host a symposium in conjunction with Natural Resources Canada’s (NRCan) on the Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act (ESTMA). This event was held in a hybrid format, online and in person at Goodman School of Business Atrium at Brock University. The free symposium featured speakers from NRCan, CPA Ontario and PWC as well as industry partners.
Joint Goodman talk to examine disclosures, social activities of accounting firms
Friday, September 16, 2022
Jagan Krishnan and Jayanthi Krishnan, both Professors and Merves Senior Research Fellows at the Fox School of Business, Temple University, each presented a 45-minute lecture as part of a joint session of the Goodman School of Business’ Luncheon Speaker Series and the CPA Centre for Public Policy and Innovation in Accounting’s (CPA-CPPIA) Brownbag Series.
SASB Standards deep dive: enterprise value-focused esg reporting for investors webinar
Tuesday, October 26, 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 on Sustainability Reporting
Friday, May 14, 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.
CPA Thought Leaders Papers
Virtual morality: how business educators can use vr to prepare students for real-life ethical dilemmas
Associate Professor Robert Steinbauer and Anh Mai To (MEd ’20) worked out of Goodman’s CPA Ontario Center for Public Policy and Innovation in Accounting. Steinbauer’s project, which developed real-life ethical scenarios through virtual reality, used his VR program to teach — and test — how business students’ make on-the-job ethical decisions.
Steinbauer’s virtual reality program recreates the office of a car manufacturer struggling to transition over to electric car production. With their headsets, users walk around the building, overhear a water-cooler conversation between employees and a phone call between the CEO and COO, and watch a video advertisement for the company. In the end, participants have to decide whether to risk the lives of their customers or save the organization millions. Steinbauer and To placed research participants into either a text, video, or virtual reality format to engage them with the scenarios.
One of the study’s major results is that, compared to the text and video groups, participants who underwent the virtual reality scenarios were more likely to risk the lives of their customers, says Steinbauer. “While this sounds terrible, it unfortunately reflects what employees in similar situations would do,” he says.
