At a glance:
In accounting research, the School of Accounting and Finance (SAF) ranks in the top four percent of 706 universities worldwide in the authoritative Brigham Young University survey. SAF places fourth globally in accounting information systems research, and twelfth globally in management accounting research.
In audit and tax research, SAF places second and third in Canada, and is in the top seven percent globally. Numerous SAF faculty members hold grants from SSHRC, CICA, and other funding agencies. They and their graduate students present their latest findings at academic and practitioner conferences, and publish their work in a wide range of scholarly journals.
Research Rankings
In 2014, Waterloo became one of only 11 universities in the world to earn a 5+ star rating in the QS Stars rating which evaluates universities against over 50 different factors.
SAF rankings in the 2017 Brigham Young University global accounting research survey:
- 2nd in Canada and 13th in the world for accounting research
- 1st in Canada for accounting information systems research
- 1st in Canada for assurance research
- 1st in Canada for management accounting research
- 1st in Canada for tax research
- 1st in Canada in Accounting PhD programs
- 2nd in Canada for financial accounting research
Waterloo ranks in the top 150 in the subject of Accounting and Finance in the 2016 UK Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) world rankings.
Research Seminars
2017-2018 Workshop Speakers
All talks are held in Hagey Hall 2104 unless otherwise noted.
| Date | Time | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| September 8 | 9:00 am |
Andrea Stapleton - PhD Proposal |
| September 15 |
9:00 am 2:30 pm |
Kai Chen - Thesis Defense PhD Student Summer Paper Presentations
|
| September 18 | 2:30 |
Martin Jacob |
| September 22 | 10:00 am |
PhD Student Summer Paper Presentations
|
| September 29 | 2:30 pm |
PhD Student Presentations
|
| October 6 | 10:00 am | PhD Student Presentation - Karen Pinto |
| October 20 | 10:00 am | Seda Oz University of Waterloo |
| November 3 | 10:00 am |
Cathy Shakespeare |
| November 17 | 2:30 pm | |
| November 24 | 10:00 am | |
| December 8 | 10:00 am |
Partha Mohanram University of Toronto |
| December 15 | 2:30 pm | |
| January 5 | 10:00 am | |
| January 12 | 10:00 am | |
| March 9 | 10:00 am |
Justin Leiby University of Georgia |
| March 16 | 10:00 am | |
| March 23 | 2:30 pm |
Jake Thornock Brigham Young University |
| April 6 | 10:00 am |
Elena Simintzi University of British Columbia |
| April 13 | 10:00 am |
Jean Bedard Laval University |
| April 20 | 10:00 am |
Maureen McNichols Stanford University |
| April 27 | 2:30 pm |
Pierre Chaigneau Queen's University |
| May 4 | 10:00 am |
Donnie Young Indiana University |
| May 11 | 10:00 am |
Urooj Khan Columbia University |
| May 18 | 10:00 am |
Gary Hecht University of Illinois |
2016-2017 Workshop Speakers
All talks are held from 2:30 - 4:00 pm in Hagey Hall
(new SAF wing) unless otherwise noted.
| Date | Presenter |
|---|---|
| September 9 |
Phyo Hlaing, Thesis Proposal |
| September 16 | Weiming Liu, Thesis Proposal |
| September 23 |
PhD Student Summer Paper Presentations
|
| October 21 |
Jiaping Qiu, McMaster University |
| October 28 |
Lev Timoshenko, Thesis Defense |
| November 4 | TBD |
| November 11 | TBD |
| November 18 | Steven Huddart, Penn State |
| November 25 | Linda Chang, University of New South Wales |
| December 2 | Tatiana Sandino, Harvard |
| December 9 | Steve Kachelmeier, University of Texas at Austin |
| January 6 | Kaleab Mamo, University of Waterloo |
| March 3 | Hyun Shana Hong, UC at Riverside |
| March 10 | Xiaofei Zhao, University of Texas at Dallas |
| March 24 | Jan Ericsson, McGill University |
| March 31 |
Ramji Balakrishnan, University of Iowa |
| April 6 | Chris Wong, Thesis Proposal 9:30 am HH 2104 |
| April 7 | Aida Sijamic Wahid, University of Toronto |
| April 13 | Greg Richins, Thesis Proposal 9:30 am HH 2104 |
| April 28 | Anastasia Zakolyukina, University of Chicago |
| May 5 | Brady Williams, U Texas at Austin |
| May 12 | Lalitha Naveen, Temple University |
| July 12 |
Weiming Liu, Thesis Defense |
SAF Database Resources
Audit Analytics
Detailed U.S. audit information on over 1,200 accounting firms and 15,000 publicly registered companies.
Access: WRDS
Thomson Reuters (Eikon)
Enables students to monitor and analyze financial information by providing them access to real time market data, news, fundamental data and analytics tools
Access: Finance and Data Analytics lab
Canadian Financial Markets Research Centre (CFMRC)
Daily and monthly Toronto Stock Exchange trading information.
Access: CFMRC
Capital IQ
Information on both public and private capital markets along with applications for analysis.
Access: Access via the Finance and Data Analytics Lab.
Center for Research in Securities Markets (CRSP)
Security price, return and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stock markets along with stock indices, beta- and cap-based portfolios, treasury bond and risk-free rates databases.
Access: WRDS
Compustat Global Vantage
Financial and market data, focusing on the non-U.S. and non-Canadian marketplace.
Access: WRDS
Compustat North America
Database of U.S. and Canadian fundamental and market information on more than 24,000 active and inactive publicly held companies. It provides more than 300 annual and 100 quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items.
Access: WRDS
Datastream
Data on asset classes, estimates, fundamentals, indices, international equity, fixed income, derivatives, macroeconomic and financial data.
Access: Contact Blake Phillips to obtain software and login access.
Qualtrics: Online survey software. Allows researchers to prepare and host a survey that includes a wide variety of question types and applications, including text and graphic questions. Provides online data collection and analysis.
Access: Contact Krista Fiolleau (k2fiolle@uwaterloo.ca)
IBES
Summary and individual analyst forecasts of company earnings, cash flows, and other important financial items, as well as buy-sell-hold recommendations.
Access: WRDS
Lexis-Nexis
Full-text news, business, and legal publications, with a variety of flexible search options.
Access: UW Library
Mergent Fixed Income Securities Database
Database of publically offered U.S. bonds for over 140,000 corporate, corporate MTN (medium term note), supranational, U.S. Agency, and U.S. Treasury debt securities with more than 550 data items. FISD provides details on debt issues and the issuers, as well as transactions by insurance companies.
Access: WRDS
Morningstar Direct
Data on closed and open-end mutual funds, equity ownership, ETFs, hedge funds and pension funds.
Access: Contact Ranjini Jha.
OptionMetrics
Historical price and implied volatility data for the U.S. equity and index options markets.
Access: WRDS
RiskMetrics
Corporate governance data including shareholder proposals, directors, corporate takeover defense, shareholder proposal and voting results.
Access: WRDS
Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN)
The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 336,600 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 272,800 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. The eLibrary also includes the research papers of a number of Fee Based Partner Publications.
Access:SSRN
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
A web-based business data research platform from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. WRDS provides access to many business research databases, alnong with tools for using them.
Access: WRDS
