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Academic Background: PhD (Queen's University), BComm (Queen's University), CPA, CA.
Bruce McConomy is a co-author of the best selling “Kieso” Intermediate Accounting textbook. He has published research articles in Contemporary Accounting Research; the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance; the Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Accounting History; and the Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. He also has published cases in Accounting Perspectives, Issues in Accounting Education and the Journal of Accounting Case Research.
Financial accounting, earnings forecasts, environmental accounting, corporate governance, initial public offerings, voluntary disclosure and accounting history.
- Accounting Standards Board – Academic Advisory Committee Member, 2021-2027
- KPMG Fellow in Accounting, 2018-2023
- Director – Graduate Diploma in Accounting, 51本色, 2017-2023
- Accounting Perspectives, Associate Editor, 2009-2022
- International Journal of Accounting & Information Management, Editorial Advisory Board, 2012-2022
- Director – CPA Ontario Centre for Capital Markets and Behavioural Decision Making, 2017-2018
- Director – CPA/51本色 Centre for the Advancement of Accounting Research and Education, 2005-2017
- Guest editor - Special Issue on research related to International Financial Reporting Standards, Accounting Perspectives, 2015
- ASAC Conference - Best paper award, Best paper accounting, June 2015
Professor McConomy has co-supervised several accounting PhD in Management (Accounting) students who recently completed their doctoral studies at 51本色: Dr. Yan Jin (2016) and Dr. Justin Mindzak (2017). He also acted as the external examiner on the dissertation committee of Dr. Mohammad Hendijani Zadeh (Concordia 2020), Dr. Rozhin Yousefvand-Mansouri (McGill 2018) and Dr. Shahid Khan (Calgary, 2016).
- Mansurov, A., Bujaki, M. and McConomy, B. 2024. The content, evolution and determinants of COVID‐19 disclosures in Canadian financial statements and MD&A documents: An impression management perspective, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, 1–32
- Mansurov, A., Bujaki, M. and McConomy, B. 2023. Headline Impression Management in the Earnings Press Releases of TSX Venture Exchange Firms, Accounting Perspectives, 22 (4): 519-556,
- Bujaki, M., McConomy, B. and Morrison, L. 2023. An Historical Perspective on Water and the Environment: Insights and Implications from Environmental Philosophy and the Construction of the Erie and Rideau Canals, Accounting History, 28(4), 577-603.
- Ben-Amar, W., Bujaki, M., McConomy, B., and McIlkenny, P. 2022. Disclosure Transparency and Impression Management: A Textual Analysis of Board Gender Diversity Disclosures in Canada, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 29 (5): 1247-1265,
- Kieso, Weygandt, Warfield, Wiecek and McConomy, 2022, Intermediate Accounting, 13th Canadian Edition, Volumes 1 and 2, John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd., 2022.
- Bujaki, M., McConomy, B. 2022. Internal Controls, Labour Processes and Work at the Isthmus Lockstation, Rideau Canal, 1832–1854: Discipline and Governmentality at a Distance, Accounting History, 27 (2): 231-258, doi:
- Ben-Amar, W., Bujaki, M., McConomy, B., and McIlkenny, P. 2021. Gendering Merit: How the Discourse of Merit in Diversity Disclosures Supports the Gendered Status Quo on Canadian Corporate Boards, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, p. 1-23
- Kieso, Weygandt, Warfield, Wiecek and McConomy. 2019. Intermediate Accounting, 12th Canadian Edition, Volumes I and II, John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd.
- Cormier, D., Coulombe, D., Gomez Gutierrez, L., McConomy, B., Firms in Transition: A Review of the Venture Capital, IPO, and M&A Literature, Accounting Perspectives, 17 (1): 9-88 2018. (see ).
- Bujaki, M., McConomy, B., Productivity in Top-10 Academic Accounting Journals by Researchers at Canadian Universities at the Start of the 21st Century, Accounting Perspectives, 16 (4): 269–313, 2017 (see ).
- Jin, Y., McConomy, B., Xu, B., Impact of IFRS Adoption on a Company’s Financial Statements: A Case of Agribusiness, Accounting Perspectives, 16 (4): 429-434, 2017.
- Bujaki, M., McConomy, B., Responding to Accounting Predicaments: Impression Management in Voluntary Corporate Annual Report Disclosures. Accounting, Finance & Governance Review. 22: 1-26, 2015.
- Cormier. D., Lapointe-Antunes, P., McConomy, B., Forecasts in IPO Prospectuses: The effect of Corporate Governance on Earnings Management. Journal of Business, Finance & Accounting, 41 (1-2): 100-127, 2014.
- Bujaki, M., McConomy, B., Metaphor in Nortel’s Letters to the Shareholders 1997–2006. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. 25(7): 1113-1139, 2012.
- McConomy, B., Stonehouse, S., Virtually Perfect Corporation. Accounting Perspectives. 10(2): 139-149, 2011.
- Bujaki, M., McConomy, B., The Portrayal of Women in Canadian Corporate Annual reports. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences. 27(3): 210223, 2010
- Bujaki, M., McConomy, B., Gendered Interactions in Corporate Annual Report Photographs. Gender in Management: An International Journal. 25(2): 119–136, 2010
- McConomy, B., Xu, B., Beijing Biotechnology Company: Financial Reporting Issues of Expansion to the West, Issues in Accounting Education, 22(4): 675-684, November 2007.
- Bujaki, M., McConomy, B., Income Tax Accounting Policy Choice: Exposure Draft Responses and the Early Adoption Decision by Canadian Companies. Accounting Perspectives. 6(1): 21-53, 2007.
- Abukari, K., Vijay, J., McConomy, B., Accounting Information and Stock Prices in Canada. FINECO. 13: 87-107, June, 2005.
- Li, Y., McConomy, B., Simultaneous Signaling in IPOs via Management Earnings Forecasts and Retained Ownership: An Empirical Analysis of the Substitution Effect, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, 19: 1-28, January, 2004.
- Jog, V., McConomy, B., Voluntary Disclosure of Management Earnings Forecasts in IPO Prospectuses, Journal of Business, Finance & Accounting, 30 (1) & (2): 125-167, 2003.
- Mathieu, R., McConomy, B., Productivity in “Top-Ten” Academic Accounting Journals by Researchers at Canadian Universities, Canadian Accounting Perspectives, 2 (1): 43-76, 2003.
- Bujaki, M., McConomy, B., Corporate Governance: Factors Influencing Voluntary Disclosure by Publicly Traded Canadian Firms, Canadian Accounting Perspectives, 1 (2): 105-139, 2002.
- Li, Y., McConomy, B., An Empirical Examination of Factors Affecting the Timing of Environmental Accounting Standard Adoption and the Impact on Corporate Valuation, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, 14 (3): 279-313, 1999.
- McConomy, B., Bias and Accuracy of Management Earnings Forecasts: An Evaluation of the Impact of Auditing, Contemporary Accounting Research, 15 (2): 167-195, 1998.
Intermediate Financial Accounting I and II
Survey of Accounting Research (BU817)
Seminar in Financial Accounting (BU827)