�鶹AV Desautels Faculty of Management - Accounting News

‘Welcome tax’ helps Quebec cities generate their own revenue

�鶹AV — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:48:12 +0000

In 2022, Quebec’s so-called ‘welcome tax’ generated more than $1.4 billion for municipalities, with Montreal alone pulling in more than $410 million. Though it sounds like a penalty for new arrivals, its name is actually derived from former Quebec cabinet member Jean Bienvenue, who tabled the bill proposing the tax; Bienvenue’s surname translates into English as ‘welcome’. These municipal-level real estate transfer taxes can range from a few thousand to tens of thousands of dollars, and property buyers must pay within 30 days of closing their purchase.

Information aggregation to form earnings expectations: Evidence from CEO networks and management forecast accuracy

�鶹AV — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:01:23 +0000

Authors: Sam (Sunghan) Lee, Steven R. Matsunaga, Peter (Seung Hwan) Oh, Hyun A. Hong

Publication: Contemporary Accounting Research
Articles in advance – published online: January 7, 2024

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Climatic Disasters and Distracted Analysts

�鶹AV — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:12:00 +0000

Authors: Yuqi Han, Connie X. Mao, Hongping Tan and Chi Zhang

Publication: Contemporary Accounting Research
Articles in advance — published online: December 7, 2023

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Delve: Why Accounting Holds the Key to Successful Sustainability Initiatives, with Brian Wenzel

�鶹AV — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 19:06:34 +0000

What does accounting have to do with sustainability? Essentially, everything. Just as research and regulations around sustainability have expanded in recent years, so has sustainability accounting, focusing on activities of an organization that have a direct impact on its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) aspects.

Prof Roh awarded FRQSC New Academics Grant

�鶹AV — Fri, 05 May 2023 16:34:41 +0000

Congratulations to Yongoh Roh, Assistant Professor in Accounting, who has been awarded the 2023-2024 FRQSC New Academics Grant (Soutien à la recherche pour la relève professorale)

“Concurrence sur le marché du travail et politique de divulgation de renseignements par les sociétés”
(“Labor Market Competition and Corporate Disclosure Policy”)

Professor Oh awarded SSHRC Insight Development Grant

�鶹AV — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 19:18:04 +0000

Congratulations to Seung Hwan (Peter) Oh, Assistant Professor in Accounting, awarded a 2022-2023 SSHRC Insight Development Grant

“Incentive System Design When Earnings Congruence is Low”

Professor Tan and Guang Ma awarded SSHRC Insight Grant

�鶹AV — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 16:17:49 +0000

Congratulations to Hongping Tan, Associate Professor in Accounting and Guang Ma, former �鶹AV Desautels Assistant Professor in Accounting who were awarded a 2022 SSHRC Insight Grant.

“Private Interaction with Management: Evidence from Textual Analysis of Analyst Reports”

Professor Oh awarded 2022-2023 FRQSC New Academics Grant

�鶹AV — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 19:57:04 +0000

Congratulations to Seung Hwan (Peter) Oh, Assistant Professor in Accounting, who has been awarded the 2022-2023 FRQSC New Academics Grant (Soutien à la recherche pour la relève professorale) for his project titled “How Do You Want to Evaluate Your CEO? The Role of Subjective Evaluation when Objective Indicators Malfunction” (“Comment souhaitez-vous évaluer votre chef de la direction? Rôle de l’évaluation subjective en présence d’indicateurs objectifs inefficaces”).

Delve podcast: New Normal: Can Global Financial Transparency Deter Corporate Tax Avoidance? with Preetika Joshi

�鶹AV — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 19:18:59 +0000

While tax policies are complicated and often seem unfair, new global solutions can both simplify how corporations pay their taxes and make payment more equitable for countries owed their share of tax revenue.

Desautels’ event highlights innovative research and recognizes scholars

�鶹AV — Fri, 20 May 2022 19:17:35 +0000

On Friday, May 13, members of the Desautels Faculty of Management gathered to celebrate the innovative and impactful research conducted by its scholars.

Fifteen professors were on hand to deliver two-minute presentations of their most interesting and research.

Before jumping into the presentations, Dean Yolande Chan took the time to highlight this year's Desautels Faculty Scholar awardees. Congratulations to this year's awardees!

Institutional Trading around Corporate News: Evidence from Textual Analysis

�鶹AV — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 13:47:54 +0000

Authors: A.G. Huang, Hongping Tan, and R. Wermers

Publication: The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 33, Issue 10, October 2020, Pages 4627-4675.

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The Effects of Analyst-Country Institutions on Biased Research: Evidence from Target Prices

�鶹AV — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 13:31:27 +0000

Authors: M.T. Bradshaw, A.G. Huang, and Hongping Tan

Publication: Journal of Accounting Research, Volume 57, Issue 1, March 2019, Pages 85-120.

Does Private Country-by-Country Reporting Deter Tax Avoidance and Income Shifting? Evidence from BEPS Action Item 13

�鶹AV — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 13:17:27 +0000

Author: Preetika Joshi

Publication: Journal of Accounting Research, Volume 58, Issue 2, May 2020, Pages 333-381.

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Professor Joshi awarded 2021 FRQSC New Academics Grant

�鶹AV — Wed, 05 May 2021 13:25:31 +0000

Congratulations to Preetika Joshi, Assistant Professor in Accounting, who has been awarded the 2021 FRQSC New Academics Grant (Soutien à la recherche pour la relève professorale) for her project titled “Does Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Improve the Tax Enforcement Function?” (L’intelligence artificielle et l’apprentissage automatique améliorent-ils la fonction de mise en recouvrement de l’impôt ?”)

Operating Lease as Alternative Financing for REITs: a Viable Strategy or a Sign of Trouble?

�鶹AV — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 19:47:31 +0000

Authors: E. Devos, E. Devos, H. Li and Desmond Tsang

Publication: The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Forthcoming

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Prof Tsang's paper wins award at 2021 Academy of Finance Conference

�鶹AV — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 22:21:40 +0000

Congratulations to Desmond Tsang, Associate Professor in Accounting, whose paper won Best-in-Track Award for Real Estate at the 2021 Academy of Finance Conference

Professor Tsang’s paper “Corporate Relocation and Housing Market Spillovers” with co-authors Maggie Hu and Wayne Xinwei Wan has won the Best-in-Track Award for Real Estate and was recognized during the 34th Annual Academy of Finance Conference.

New policies needed to address the CEWS controversy

�鶹AV — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:16:11 +0000

Between April and September 20, 53 publicly-held Canadian companies paid out nearly $2 billion to their shareholders despite receiving more than $10 million in federal assistance through the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS). Prof. Preetika Joshi proposes policy changes that will direct future subsidies to the companies that need them most. Learn more

‘Shareholder capitalism’ sparks controversy

�鶹AV — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 19:57:13 +0000

The news that more than 60 publicly held Canadian firms have received the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) while continuing to pay out dividends has sharply divided public opinion this week. Professor Preetika Joshi enters the debate, pointing to the complexity of balancing profit with corporate responsibility during a crisis.

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68 Canadian companies pay out billions in dividends while receiving government subsidies

�鶹AV — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 00:03:04 +0000

A recent investigation reveals that as 68 publicly-traded Canadian companies received at least $1.3 billion government assistance through the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS), they paid out more than $5 billion in dividends during the same time period. According to Professor Preetika Joshi, certain countries were more discerning than others when distributing corporate subsidies.

Professor Julia Scott receives prestigious FCPA designation

�鶹AV — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 23:27:16 +0000

The Desautels Faculty of Management congratulates Professor Julia Scott for being recognized with CPA Ontario’s coveted FCPA designation. The FCPA distinction is reserved for those at the pinnacle of their careers; it is the highest honour that can be bestowed on a member.

The long-term impact of corporate tax disclosure

�鶹AV — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:07:13 +0000

Companies are experiencing increased pressure to open their tax affairs to public scrutiny. But for Assistant Professor Preetika Joshi, it is crucial to first determine how tax transparency will affect corporate behaviour in the long term.

Delve: How Will Tariff Uncertainty Affect Financial Markets?

�鶹AV — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 19:17:31 +0000

Against the backdrop of tariff wars and a pandemic, one question that investors are asking is whether they can trust financial analysts’ earnings projections for their investment decisions. On the one hand, financial analysts are professional earnings forecasters whose livelihood depends on the accuracy of their work. On the other hand, trade uncertainty might be severe enough to undermine the credibility and accuracy of analysts’ forecasts.

Delve: Walking Away Rather Than Blowing the Whistle

�鶹AV — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:17:22 +0000

Prof Desmond Tsang finds that higher turnover rates among boards of directors points to the possibility of corporate fraud.

This article is brought to you by Delve, the official thought leadership publication of �鶹AV's Desautels Faculty of Management.

Professor Dongyoung Lee awarded 2019 SSHRC Insight Development Grant

�鶹AV — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:57:29 +0000

Dongyoung Lee, Assistant Professor in Accounting, awarded 2019 SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Accounting scholarship recipients

�鶹AV — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 20:07:11 +0000

Congratulations to Kiwon Choi (BCom’19), Hugo Ouimet (BCom’19 – currently in GCPA program) and Christopher Wolf (BCom’20), undergraduate scholarship recipients from the Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec.

Teaching excellence celebrated at Desautels convocation

�鶹AV — Wed, 29 May 2019 15:18:31 +0000

Congratulations to Amanda Abrams, Faculty Lecturer, and Elliot Lifson, Professor of Practice and Desautels Faculty Advisory Board member, who were honored at �鶹AV’s Management Convocation ceremony for their excellence in teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels respectively.

Dongyoung Lee, Jingjing Zhang and Hongping Tan awarded 2018 SSHRC Connection Grant

�鶹AV — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 19:02:40 +0000

Congratulations to Dongyoung Lee, Assistant Professor in Accounting, Jingjing Zhang, Assistant Professor in Accounting, and Hongping Tan, Associate Professor in Accounting, awarded 2018 SSHRC Connection Grant - 2019 Financial Accounting Research Conference: “Accounting Disclosure, Financial Intermediaries, and Capital Market Outcomes” on May 28th – 29th, 2019.

Professor Tsang honored at Bravo 2019

�鶹AV — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 21:00:18 +0000

Professor Desmond Tsang was recently honored at the Bravo 2019 gala for his recognition by REAL as a top real estate researcher for a second consecutive year.

Prof. Wenzel named best reviewer

�鶹AV — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 20:16:13 +0000

Professor Brian Wenzel has been awarded the 2018 AJFS Best Reviewer Award on behalf of Korean Securities Association and Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies.

The award recognizes specifically Professor Wenzel’s outstanding review of an article submission to the Journal in the Corporate Finance area.

The Effects of Analyst‐Country Institutions on Biased Research: Evidence from Target Prices

�鶹AV — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:43:28 +0000

Authors: Mark T. Bradshaw, Alan G. Huang, Hongping Tan

Publication: Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming

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Prior research demonstrates that a strong institutional infrastructure in a country moderates self‐serving behavior of market participants. Cross‐country economic activities have increased significantly, presenting a research opportunity to examine the relative influence of local versus foreign institutional infrastructure on individual market participants. We utilize variation in analyst‐country location relative to covered firm location to examine institutional determinants of optimism in analyst research. Focusing on target prices, where persistent optimism is well documented, we find that analysts domiciled in countries with stronger institutional infrastructures exhibit significantly attenuated target price optimism and more value‐relevant target prices. Our results demonstrate the importance of domestic country‐level institutional factors in moderating self‐serving behavior of market participants engaged in cross‐country activities.

Winning at a Losing Game? Side-Effects of Perceived Tournament Promotion Incentives in Audit Firms

�鶹AV — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:25:27 +0000

Authors: Jorien Pruijssers, Pursey Pmar Heugens and Hans J. Van Oosterhout

Publication: Journal of Business Ethics, Forthcoming

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Marketing Campaign: Who's behind Desautels?

�鶹AV — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 21:41:49 +0000

How does firm location affect the reliability of a company's financials?

Learn more about how Desautels professors are behind some of the most unique research projects in the world.

Six BCom students awarded CPA Quebec scholarships

�鶹AV — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 20:00:36 +0000

Congratulations to the six Desautels undergraduate students who were awarded scholarships by the Foundation of CPAs of Quebec.

The scholarships, valued at $1,000 each, recognize academic excellence and community involvement among students in Quebec who are interested in pursuing accounting.

This year’s recipients are: Nicole Butkowsky; Chaeyoung Lee; Shannon Levy; Sateesh Pararajasingham; Nathalie Shen-Picotte and Elizabeth Tkach.

Professor Tsang named among top real estate researchers

�鶹AV — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 16:56:21 +0000

The Real Estate Academic Leadership (REAL) ranking for 2013-2017 has placed Professor Desmond Tsang in the 34th position among the top real estate researchers worldwide. This is the second consecutive year that Professor Tsang has placed on this list.

Influential Chief Marketing Officers and Management Revenue Forecasts

�鶹AV — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 18:22:14 +0000

Authors: David S. Koo and Dongyoung Lee

Publication: The Accounting Review, Forthcoming

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We examine the role of the chief marketing officer (CMO) in corporate voluntary disclosure of future revenues. Using a sample of S&P 1500 firms for the period from 2003 to 2011, we find that the presence of an influential CMO in top management is positively associated with the likelihood of a firm's issuing a management revenue forecast. We also find that firms with an influential CMO provide more accurate revenue forecasts than other firms. These findings extend to long-window change analyses and are robust to the use of a propensity-score matched-pair approach. Overall, the results are consistent with the notion that CMO influence in top management appears to play an important role in voluntary revenue disclosures.

Read abstract: The Accounting Review

Does the Presence of Female Executives Curb Earnings Management? Evidence from Korea

�鶹AV — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 18:15:12 +0000

Authors: Hyun Ah Kim, Seok Woo Jeong, Tony Kang and Dongyoung Lee

Publication: Australian Accounting Review, Vol. 27, No. 4, December 2017

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Desmond Tsang wins 2017 ARES Manuscript Prize

�鶹AV — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:12:38 +0000

Professor Desmond Tsang's paper "Quality of Life and Earnings Management: Do Firms at Less Desirable Locations Manipulate Earnings More Aggressively?" with co-author Jing Zhang was awarded the 2017 ARES Manuscript Prize in the category of Innovative Thinking "Thinking Out of the Box" presented at the ARES Annual Conference.

Value is in the Eye of the Beholder: The Relative Valuation Roles of Earnings and Book Value in Merger Pricing

�鶹AV — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:33:03 +0000

Author: MaryJane Rabier

Publication: The Accounting Review, Vol. 93, No. 1, 2018, pp. 335-362

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Gupta and Gerchek (2002) argue that different acquirers can arrive at different equity valuations for the same target depending on their strategic intent. A reason for acquirers' equity valuations to vary, holding target fundamentals constant, may be that individual acquirers place different weights on underlying fundamentals. I examine this possibility using Burgstahler and Dichev (1997)'s theoretical framework. They argue that the relative importance of earnings and book value depends on expected adaptation, which is the likelihood that the existing earnings generating process will be altered. Using restructuring costs to proxy for expected adaptation at the individual acquirer level, I find that the association between the target's earnings (book value) and acquirers' bid prices is decreasing (increasing) in expected adaptation, consistent with theoretical predictions. These findings are less pronounced during merger waves and intense bid competition for the target.

Read full article: The Accounting Review

Acquisition Motives and the Distribution of Acquisition Performance

�鶹AV — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:26:01 +0000

Author: MaryJane Rabier

Publication: Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 38, No. 13, 2017

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Research summary:

I examine how acquisition motives relate to the distribution of post-acquisition performance. I argue that acquisitions motivated by operating synergies have the potential to experience greater gains than acquisitions driven by financial synergies but are harder to value and implement, making them more uncertain. Using SEC filings, conference calls and press releases to capture acquisition motives, I find that acquirers pursuing operating synergies are more likely to experience highly positive and highly negative long-term returns than acquirers pursuing financial synergies.

I also find that acquisition experience and geographic proximity to targets soften acquirers' extreme downside outcomes in operating synergy acquisitions. My theory and results suggest that approaches that emphasize average outcomes for acquirers and use industry classifications to capture acquisition motives may be incomplete.

Managerial summary:

Managers engage in acquisitions for various reasons. In this study, I find that reasons related to operating synergies (e.g., revenue growth through new product offerings or cost savings through economies of scale) are more likely to result in extreme high and low performance outcomes for the acquiring firm compared to reasons related to financial synergies (e.g., diversification of cash flow streams).

In addition, I find that the acquirer's prior acquisition experience and the geographic proximity between the target and acquirer help soften the extreme low performance outcomes related to operating synergies.

Read full article: Strategic Management Journal

Desautels students from Japan and Montreal tour Vietnam businesses

�鶹AV — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 19:28:05 +0000

This summer, a combined group of Desautels MBA Japan students and participants from the PMBA cohort in Montreal accompanied Associate Professor Desmond Tsang on a Study Tour of Vietnam to get a feel for the country’s culture and learn about its status as a rapidly-emerging market.

A little adrenaline goes a long way when it comes to business perspectives

�鶹AV — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 20:51:43 +0000

A blog post at Virgin.com looks at how adventure-seeking CEOs come at business from a more open, experimental angle.

Desautels Professor Jingjing Zhang’s research shows that chief execs who fly small airplanes in their off-hours tend to be more open to innovation.

Who’s Watching? Accountability in Different Audit Regimes and the Effects on Auditors’ Professional Skepticism

�鶹AV — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:33:03 +0000

Authors: Florian Hoos, Jorien Louise Pruijssers, Michel W. Lander

Publication: Journal of Business Ethics, Forthcoming

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Desautels researchers link thrill-seeking CEOs to increased innovation

�鶹AV — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 21:00:26 +0000

CEOs with a real taste for excitement can be a company’s best bet for upping its innovation cred, according to a paper co-authored by a Desautels professor Jingjing Zhang.

The paper studied 88 CEOs who were pilots, comparing them to 1,123 non-pilot chief executives over ten years. Pilot CEOs helped increase their companies’ patents by almost 67 per cent.

Desautels Professor Zhang said that this comes down to thrill-seeking CEOs tending to love diverse, original projects to a higher degree.

Jingjing Zhang awarded 2017 FRQSC New Academics Grant

�鶹AV — Mon, 15 May 2017 17:37:17 +0000

Jingjing Zhang, Assistant Professor in Accounting, was recently awarded a 2017 FRQSC New Academics Grant for her project "Effet d’entraînement réglementaire transfrontalier : impact des réformes du processus de notation aux États-Unis sur la notation des obligations des sociétés canadiennes. / Cross-Border Regulatory Spillover: The Effect of U.S. Credit Rating Reforms on Canada’s Corporate Bond Ratings".

Go before the whistle blows: an empirical analysis of director turnover and financial fraud

�鶹AV — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:33:11 +0000

Authors: Gao. Y., Kim, J.B., Tsang, D., Wu, H.

Publication: Review of Accounting Studies

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Professor Steve Fortin appointed to Accounting Standards Board

�鶹AV — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:47:58 +0000

Professor Steve Fortin, CPA, CA has been named to the Financial Reporting Accounting Standards Board (AcSB). The AcSB is an independent body with the authority to establish accounting standards for use by all Canadian entities outside the public sector. The AcSB serves the public interest by establishing standards for financial reporting by all Canadian private sector entities and by contributing to the development of internationally accepted financial reporting standards.

Adventurous CEOs make great innovators

�鶹AV — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:10:36 +0000

According to a study performed in part by Desautels Assistant Professor of Accounting Jingjing Zhang, when it comes to chasing innovation, companies with risk-loving CEOs tend to pursue more original projects and “generate more patents with greater market impact than their peers.” This is because thrill-seeking personalities tend to be more open to new ideas, which translates well into the business space.

Pilot CEOs and corporate innovation

�鶹AV — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 14:27:09 +0000

Authors: Jayanthi Sundera, Shyam V. Sundera, Jingjing Zhang

Publication: Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 123, No. 1, 2017

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Incentive Alignment through Performance-Focused Shareholder Proposals on Management Compensation

�鶹AV — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:14:12 +0000

Authors: Steve Fortin, Chandra Subramaniam, Xu (Frank) Wang, Sanjian Bill Zhang

Publication: Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2014

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24 Desautels undergraduate accounting students recently received scholarships from the Order of CPAs of Quebec!

�鶹AV — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 22:50:20 +0000

Congratulations to Gabriel Alary, Marc-André Benoit, Jenny Bradley-Tessier, Michael Cohen, Richard Despatie, Luisa Di Benedetto, Nicolas Glaudemans, Kaihua He, Nathaniel Kirsh, Christina Kontaxis, Cédric Lalonde-McNicoll, Elizabeth Lefebvre, Antoine Legault, Patrick Lorange, Matthew Minuk, Marc-Benoit Roch, Adam Shapiro, Sebastian Soch, Arina Tcherniavskaia, Xinning Zheng and Kaixin Zheng for receiving 21 of the 100 scholarships awarded in Quebec based on academic performance and extra-curricular involvement.

�鶹AV's dynamic duo receive Top 8 Academic All-Canadian commendation from Governor General

�鶹AV — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 18:09:00 +0000

Two student-athletes from �鶹AV were among the CIS Top Eight Academic All-Canadians honoured by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada -- and former principal at �鶹AV -- at Rideau Hall in the nation's capital, Monday. Mariam Sylla, a basketball player and pharmacology student, as well as Cedric McNicoll, a hockey player and accounting major in the Desautels faculty of management, were representing the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec conference at the event.

Incentive alignment through performance-focused shareholder proposals on management compensation

�鶹AV — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:12:10 +0000

Authors: Fortin, Steve; Subramaniam, Chandra; Wang, Xufrank; Zhang, Sanjian

Publication: Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics

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"Raising Quality Consciousness among Chinese Manufacturing Personnel: Testing the Effectiveness of Performance Management Tools," Asia Pacific Journal of Management

�鶹AV — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 21:30:24 +0000

Authors: Daniel, Shirley J.; Lee, Dongyoung; Reitsperger, Wolf D.

Publication: Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2013

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My Visit with a Senior Manager at Deloitte

�鶹AV — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:00:20 +0000

It’s the morning of the 29th of August and I hastily get ready for my interview with Vince Spadafora (BCom’04), a senior manager at Deloitte. It’s already 8 am and the possibility that I may be late for my 10:30 am meeting at Place Ville Marie starts to become more and more likely. Why you ask? (or not) I haven’t decided on what to wear yet! I narrow my options down to two outfits: A black formal suit or a smart t-shirt with jeans. After a while I decide to go with both! I take the blazer from the suit and wear it with the shirt and jeans; casual yet professional. Perfect!