Accounting symposium brings together faculty from across the world

Last week, Lang’s Department of Management hosted the 4^th annual Qualitative Accounting Research Symposium, a research initiative that brings together researchers and accounting faculty from across the world.

The event is an opportunity for researchers who share an interest in qualitative accounting research from diverse methodological and theoretical perspectives to come together and discuss accounting practices in a social, political, and economic context.

This year’s symposium was well attended by national and international researchers, including paper presentations by faculty from 15 universities across the world.

The paper presentations included:

• Staci Kenno and Barbara J. Sainty (Brock University), “The new government funding formula: Revised calculative practices”
• Pier-Luc Nappert (York University), “Performance metrics and the commodification of people: The case of the baseball industry”
• Maryam Firoozi (Carleton University) and Chih-Hao Ku (Cleveland State University), “Accountability on social media: CEO narratives and stakeholders’ responses at the time of a crisis”
• Nelson Duenas (Concordia University), “From political-based to technocratic trust: Control and accountability in the international cooperation sector”
• Till-Arne Hahn (Queen’s University), “Divisions within: Internal professional rifts over the formal recognition of tax specialists in Canada”
• Nicole Edge (Mount Royal University), “The Goffman Gospel according to accounting: Maintaining business beliefs”
• Wafa ben Yedder and Gaétan Breton (University of Quebec at Montreal), “The Firm: A word in a discursive world”
• Janice Foley (University of Regina) and Daphne Rixon (Saint Mary’s University), “Merger of the accounting profession: Getting to yes”
• Philippe Lassou (University of Guelph) and Sara Lauwo (Goldsmith, University of London), “Monetization of politics and public procurement in Ghana: Beyond state capture”
• Lisa Jack (University of Portsmouth, UK)

The symposium also featured a keynote presentation by Professor Alan Sangster from the University of Aberdeen (UK) and a lively panel discussion on “What is Accounting History: Subject vs Method”.

The symposium ran from November 28^th to 29^th at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Guelph.