HISTORY

The Canadian Academic Accounting Association was incorporated on December 2, 1976.

The Canadian Academic Accounting Association: 25 Years of Progress was produced for the CAAA's silver anniversary in 2001. The project was coordinated by J. Efrim Boritz, and brings together contributions from Past Presidents of the Association with the CAAA's history, written by Alan J. Richardson.

CAAA 25 Years of Progress

I offer this history with no little trepidation. It is always dangerous to give an account of events when the people involved are still around to tell you what “really” happened. I present one interpretation of the events surrounding the origins and development of the CAAA to help us appreciate what we set out to do, what we have accomplished, and where we are going. In part this is simply an accounting to CAAA members of what those entrusted with the welfare of the organization have done. More than this, however, it is an attempt to reinforce our identity as a community, to provide a perspective on the course that we have set for ourselves, and to act as a tangible part of our organizational memory. Our history helps to understand how we have come to this juncture and the possibilities that open before us.
...this history is written as a starting point. The CAAA is a vibrant organization with far more lying ahead of it than lies behind. My aim is that this document might stimulate debate about the future and the policies and programs that will best serve the interests of members as we continue.

Alan J Richardson

...[the] activities of national and regional academic associations--publications, annual meetings, special conferences and seminars, the bestowing of awards, and policy outreach--are important to the continuing development of the discipline and the profession...The CAAA has had a hand in all of them, and it has performed a valuable service to Canadian academics, to the Canadian accounting profession, and to academics beyond Canada. I am confident that we will be able to say as much about the CAAA 25 years from now.

Stephen Zeff

PAST PRESIDENTS OF CAAA

YEAR

CAAA PRESIDENT

INSTITUTION

2023-2024

Samir Trabelsi

Brock University

2022-2023

Kate Bewley

Toronto Metropolitan University

2021-2022

Hanen Khemakem

Université du Québec à Montréal

2020-2021

Samuel Sponem

HEC Montréal

2019-2020

Michael Favere-Marchesi

Simon Fraser University

2018-2019

Duane Kennedy

University of Waterloo

2017-2018

S.M. Khalid Nainar

McMaster University

2016-2017

Cheryl S. McWatters

University of Ottawa

2015-2016

Merridee Bujaki

Carleton University

2014-2015

Alan J. Richardson

University of Windsor

2013-2014

James Gaa

University of Alberta

2012-2013

Maurice Gosselin

Université Laval

2011-2012

Vaughan Radcliffe

Western University

2010-2011

Jennifer Kao

University of Alberta

2009-2010

Gary Entwistle

University of Saskatchewan

2008-2009

Louise Côté

HEC Montréal

2007-2008

Angela Downey

University of Victoria

2006-2007

Janet Morrill

University of Manitoba

2005-2006

Daniel Coulombe

Université Laval

2004-2005

Glenn Feltham

University of Manitoba

2003-2004

Linda Thorne

York University

2002-2003

Joan Conrod

Dalhousie University

2001-2002

Michel Guindron

HEC Montréal

2000-2001

Anne Fortin

Université du Québec à Montréal

1999-2000

J. Efrim Boritz

University of Waterloo

1998-1999

David H. Bateman

Saint Mary's University

1997-1998

Howard D. Teall

Wilfrid Laurier University

1996-1997

Réal Labelle

HEC Montréal

1995-1996

Daniel B. Thornton

Queen's University

1994-1995

V. Bruce Irvine

University of Saskatchewan

1993-1994

Patricia L. O’Malley

KPMG

1992-1993

Jean-Guy Rousseau

HEC Montréal

1991-1992

Nabil S. Elias

University of Manitoba

1990-1991

C. Derek Acland

Concordia University

1989-1990

Samuel H. Jopling

Saint Mary's University

1988-1989

Irene M. Gordon

Simon Fraser University

1987-1988

Yvon Houle

Université du Québec à Montréal

1986-1987

J. Alex Milburn

Clarkson Gordon

1985-1986

Leonard J. Brooks

University of Toronto

1984-1985

Michael Gibbins

University of Alberta

1983-1984

Gilles Chevalier

Charette, Fortier, Hawey

1982-1983

W. John Brennan

University of Saskatchewan

1981-1982

Alister K. Mason

Deloitte Haskins & Sells

1980-1981

J. David Blazouske

University of Manitoba

1979-1980

John H. Waterhouse

University of Alberta

1977-1979

L.S. (Al) Rosen

York University

1976-1977

Daniel L. McDonald

Simon Fraser University