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Annual Report
To discover activities and other highlights across our focus areas and more broadly, you can review our 2023 annual report or reports from previous years of operation. See a list of all UWCISA Annual Reports.
Recognition
Awards
UWCISA personnel have recently been recognized for their contributions to research, education, and/or the accounting profession.
2024 Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory (AJPT) Best Paper Award – Tim Bauer
- Won by Tim Bauer, and his co-authors Kerry Humphreys and Ken Trotman at UNSW Sydney, for their 2022-published paper Group Judgment and Decision Making in Auditing: Research in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond.
- The AJPT Best Paper Award annually recognizes a paper published in AJPT that has had a significant influence on, or the potential to significantly influence, auditing research or practice.
- This year’s award was announced in December 2023 and Tim accepted the award in January 2024 at the Auditing Section Midyear Meeting.
- The paper synthesizes prior research on auditor interactions and proposes new research questions for audit Judgment and Decision Making (JDM) researchers to investigate. It also proposes new ways of addressing existing research questions in light of the impacts and changes to audits resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
2023 Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame Induction – Efrim Boritz
- Efrim Boritz was inducted into the Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame in June 2023 for his contributions to the accounting profession.
- During his 40-year career at the University of Waterloo Efrim has been a prolific writer and researcher, and Director of UWCISA for most of that time; he has 24 books and monographs to his credit and over 40 articles in refereed journals.
- Efrim has served on both the Auditing and Accounting Standards Boards in Canada, and was President of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) in 1999/2000.
- Efrim was only the second person to receive the three top CAAA Awards for excellence in accounting research and education: those named for George Baxter (Outstanding Contributions to the CAAA), Haim Falk (Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Thought), and L.S. Rosen (Outstanding Educator).
- Over the years, Efrim has been engaged to perform a wide variety of consulting and expert witness assignments.
Grants
UWCISA personnel hold the following research grants and support for their ongoing research.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council–Insight Grant
- Awarded to Tim Bauer (Principal Investigator) for the research proposal Troublesome Clients: What do Auditors Experience and How Do They Deal With It.
- Total grant - $94,676 for the years 2023-2026.
- Awarded to Theo Stratopoulos (Co-Investigator), Changling Chen (Principal Investigator) for the research proposal Corporate Disclosures under Extreme Uncertainty: Evidence from COVID-19 Pandemic.
- Total grant - $97,000 2021-2024 for the years 2021-2024.
- Awarded to Sepideh Ebrahimi (Principal Investigator) and Christian Matt at University of Bern (Collaborator) for the research proposal Understanding how Task Complexity and Employees' Expertise Impact Adopting Discriminatory Data Analytics Recommendations and Developing Potential Countermeasures.
- Total grant - $98,416 for the years 2021-2028.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council–Insight Development Grant
- Awarded to Tim Bauer (Co-Investigator), Samanatha Seto at Simon Fraser University (Principal Investigator) and Jenny Ulla at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Collaborator) for the research proposal Managing the Remote Audit - The Effect of Management Style and Algorithmic vs. Human Managers on Auditor Behaviors and Outcomes.
- Total grant - $71,780 for the years 2023-2025.