Accounting and Financial Management Services

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 research conducted by faculty is relevant to the accounting profession and also that student learning is aligned with industry practice.

Faculty members are highly cited and publish 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

Lilian Chan

LILIAN CHAN

Professor Emeritus

Professor Chan is the Founding Director of the Graduate Diploma in Professional Accountancy program which prepares graduates of McMaster University's Commerce/MBA programs for the Chartered...

Justin Jin

JUSTIN JIN

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

Susan McCracken

SUSAN MCCRACKEN

Professor / Associate Dean, Academic

Dr. McCracken’s research focuses on the decision making process of auditors. Her work focuses on decisions and approaches to negotiation in an audit context. Although her auditor negotiation...

Aadil Merali Juma

AADIL MERALI JUMA

Assistant Professor / Director, Graduate Diploma in Professional Accountancy Program

Emad Mohammad

EMAD MOHAMMAD

Associate Professor / Area Chair, Accounting and Financial Management Services

Ala Mokhtar

ALA MOKHTAR

Assistant Professor

Dr. Ala Mokhtar holds a PhD in Accounting from the University of Waterloo. Her research interests are in management accounting, in particular, in how management controls motivate employees. Among...

Publications

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

March 2024

Loan Loss Provisions And Income Smoothing In Banks: The Role Of Trade Openness And Ifrs In Brics

JOURNAL : CHINA ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE REVIEW
CONTRIBUTORS: Sarit Biswas, Sharad nath Bhattacharya, Yiqiang Jin, Mousumi Bhattacharya, Pradip h Sadarangani
March 2024

Leadership Vacuum And Urban Economic Development: Evidence From A Transition Country

JOURNAL : JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS
CONTRIBUTORS: Maoyong Cheng, Yutong Yao, Yiqiang Jin, Khalid Nainar, Yu Meng
May 2023

Analyst Forecasts, Managerial Learning, And Corporate Investment

JOURNAL : JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING AUDITING & FINANCE
CONTRIBUTORS: Yaqin Hu, Yuan Zhang
March 2023

Accounting Information Completeness And Firm Default Risk

JOURNAL : QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF FINANCE
CONTRIBUTORS: Yaqin Hu, Xiaofei Zhao
March 2023

Local Ceos, Career Concerns And Voluntary Disclosure

JOURNAL : JOURNAL OF BUSINESS FINANCE & ACCOUNTING
CONTRIBUTORS: Yaqin Hu
December 2023

Expansionary Monetary Policy And Bank Loan Loss Provisioning

JOURNAL : JOURNAL OF RISK AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
CONTRIBUTORS: Mengyang Guo, Xiaoran Jia, Yiqiang Jin, Kiridaran Kanagaretnam, Gerald j Lobo
June 2023

Case Analysis: Johnson & Johnson And The Covid-19 Vaccine

JOURNAL : THE CASE JOURNAL
CONTRIBUTORS: Huining Jia, Yiqiang Jin, Benjamin Lindsay
March 2023

The Impact Of Fasb Staff Position Apb 14-1 On Corporate Financing: A Debt Contracting Perspective

JOURNAL : JOURNAL OF RISK AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
CONTRIBUTORS: Yiqiang Jin, Kiridaran Kanagaretnam, Na Li
January 2023

Social Distancing And Local Bias

JOURNAL : FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
CONTRIBUTORS: Yi Liu, Yiqiang Jin
January 2023

Evolution In Value Relevance Of Accounting Information

JOURNAL : THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW
CONTRIBUTORS: Mary e Barth, Ken Li, Charles g Mcclure
June 2023

Does Corporate Social Responsibility Always Result In More Ethical Decision-making? Evidence From Product Recall Remediation

JOURNAL : JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
CONTRIBUTORS: Alfred Liu, Angela Liu, Sangkil Moon, Donald Siegel
May 2023

Enterprise System Implementation And Cash Flow Volatility

JOURNAL : CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTING RESEARCH
CONTRIBUTORS: Alfred Liu, Morton Pincus, Sean x Xu
February 2023

Poverty Mitigation And Anti-corruption Campaigns: Evidence From Chinese Cities

JOURNAL : JOURNAL OF THE ASIA PACIFIC ECONOMY
CONTRIBUTORS: Maoyong Cheng, Yu Meng, Yiqiang Jin, Khalid Nainar

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

August 2023

Subjectivity In Performance Evaluation And Group Identity As Antecedents Of Employee Overwork

CONTRIBUTORS: Ala Mokhtar, Tim Bauer, Adam Presslee