PURPOSE
The Haim Falk Award is intended to stimulate scholarly thinking and research in Canada by giving widespread recognition to excellence in scholarly achievement that clearly contributes to the advancement of accounting thought.
The Award, established in 1987, was renamed in 1989 to honour Professor Haim Falk, founding Editor of the CAAA Journal, Contemporary Accounting Research. One award will be made each year at the CAAA Annual Conference, subject to there being a worthy winner.
The Haim Falk Award is intended to stimulate scholarly thinking and research in Canada by giving widespread recognition to excellence in scholarly achievement that clearly contributes to the advancement of accounting thought.
The CAAA Nominating Committee will identify the Chair, who will select the two members of the Haim Falk Award Committee annually. The
makeup of the Committee should reflect geographic diversity to the extent possible.
The chairperson and the two other members of the Committee will solicit and receive all nominations made for the Haim Falk Award for Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Thought. The Committee will review the nominations and accompanying material which have been received and will also undertake to obtain whatever additional information it may require to reach a decision.
Any informed person or group, especially colleagues, departmental committees, other researchers, and provincial or national societies may submit nominations.
The author or authors should be (physically) resident in Canada at the time of the contribution, and may be involved in any aspect of public, industrial, or governmental accounting or academia.
Current members of the CAAA Board, Committee Chairs, members of the Haim Falk, George Baxter, L.S. Rosen, and Howard Teall Awards Committees, and members of the Nominating Committee are ineligible to receive this award.
All nominations submitted for the first time, which do not receive the Award, will be brought forward and reconsidered the following year. In each case the nominator will be contacted to ensure that they agree with this.
The nomination package must include
Those submitting nominations are encouraged to present information gathered from others to support the nomination. The Committee will obtain whatever additional information it may require to make a decision.
A body of work, including articles, monographs, books or other works published in English or French over the candidate’s career, which are judged to have made, or to be likely to make, a distinct and valuable contribution to the advancement of accounting thought.
The contribution of the body of work may be in respect of any aspect of accounting in its broadest sense, including financial and managerial accounting, auditing, tax, and related areas. The work may be theoretical, empirical, applied, or educational in nature.
Criteria for judging works include:
The Award recipient must be a member in good standing of the CAAA.
Submit nominations no later than February 15, 2025.
2024: Michel Magnan
2023: No recipient
2022: No recipient
2021: Kenneth Klassen
2020: No recipient
2019: Yves Gendron
2018: J. Efrim Boritz
2017: Partha Mohanram
2016: Jeffrey Pittman
2015: Dean Neu
2014: Ole-Kristian Hope
2013: Jean Bédard
2012: J. Alex Milburn
2011: Michael A. Welker
2010: Karim Jamal
2009: Patricia C. O'Brien
2008: Steven E. Salterio
2007: Gordon D. Richardson
2006: Jeffrey Callen
2005: David Cooper
2003: Michael Gibbins
2001: Dan A. Simunic
1998: Norman B. Macintosh
1994: Gerald A. Feltham
1992: George J. Murphy
1991: Richard V. Mattessich
1990: Ross M. Skinner
1989: Anthony A. Atkinson
1988: William R. Scott
1987: Daniel B. Thornton