Tisha King

Sole-Supervisory Privilege Status (SSPS2)

Office: HH-290E

Phone: 519-888-4567 x41323

Research interests

My broad program of research examines ethical judgments and decision making. Specifically, I use experiments to examine taxpayers' or tax professionals' judgments and decisions. I also use qualitative methods like interviews to explore social justice issues.

Education and certifications

Wilfrid Laurier University, PhD Management (Accounting)
University of Leicester, MSc Finance
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, BSc Accounting
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, ACCA (Fellow)
Chartered Professional Accountant, CPA, CGA (Ontario)

Professional experiences

Assistant Professor, School of Accounting and Finance, University of Waterloo
Assistant Professor, Rowe School of Business, Dalhousie University
Finance Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Publications

Hahn, T., King, T. & Landry, S. 2024. Forthcoming. Differently Trained Practitioners’ Approaches to Tax Work: Divergence, Convergence, and Further Insights for the Profession. Canadian Tax Journal, Canadian Tax Foundation.

King, T. 2024. First things first: Using anchoring bias to examine the effect of penalty severity and social norms on tax compliance. Journal of Business Ethics.

Farrar, J. & King, T. 2023. Policy Forum: Using retributive justice to ensure public trust in Canada’s tax system. Canadian Tax Journal, Canadian Tax Foundation, 72(1), 83-93.

Farrar, J. & King, T. 2023. To Punish or Not to Punish? The Impact of Tax Fraud Punishment on Observers’ Tax Compliance. Journal of Business Ethics, 183, 289-311.

Hahn, T. & King, T. 2021. When I grow up ... Understanding the motivations that individuals have for pursuing a career in tax. Issues in Accounting Education.

Berger, L., Guo, L. & King, T. 2020. Selfish Sharing? The Impact of the Sharing Economy on Tax Reporting Honesty. Journal of Business Ethics, 167(2), 181-207.

Working papers

Please refer to author pages of SSRN (Social Science Research Network) or Google Scholar for current working papers; otherwise available upon request.

Editorial boards

Accounting Perspectives
Accounting Forum

Funding

SSHRC Insight Grant, "The Effects of Formal and Informal Control Systems on Employees’ Honesty", with Joanna Andrejkow, Jeremy Douthit & Krista Fiolleau, 2024-2028, $93,526
SSHRC Insight Development Grant, “Speak Up, Speak Out: The Black Lives Matter Movement and Investor Judgments”, with C. Cho, A. Hagemen, and A. Hill, 2022-2024, $52,097
CPA Canada – CAAA Management Accounting, Performance Management, Finance, Governance & Strategy Research Grant, 2021-2023, $7,570
CPA Canada – CAAA Research Grant Program, with J. Farrar, 2020-2022, $3,000
CPA Canada – CAAA Financial Accounting, Assurance & Tax Research Grant, with L. Berger and L. Guo, 2018-2020, $10,000

Media and other citations

Paying fairly: Insights from new study on tax fraud prevention. (2024, August 14). University of Waterloo.
Tisha King, SAF Researcher, helps discover Canada’s trailblazing Black accountants. (2024, February 7). University of Waterloo.
CPA Pivot Magazine (2024, February 1). Identifying the pioneering Black professional accountants in Canada.
CPA Pivot Magazine (2024, February ). The story behind the first Black professional accountants in Canada.
The Conversation (2021, October 31). The Pandora Papers: How punishing tax cheats can serve as a deterrent.
770CHQR and 630CHED with Shaye Ganam, commenting on “The Pandora Papers: How punishing tax cheats can serve as a deterrent”, November 2, 2021.
980 CKNW the Weekend Morning Show with Stirling Faux, commenting on “The Pandora Papers: How punishing tax cheats can serve as a deterrent”, November 6, 2021.