Bruce McConomy

Financial accounting, earnings forecasts, auditing and environmental accounting, corporate governance, initial public offerings, voluntary disclosure and accounting history.

• KPMG Fellow in Accounting, 2018-2023
• Director – Graduate Diploma in Accounting, Wilfrid Laurier University, 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/Laurier 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 Laurier: 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. Headline Impression Management in the Earnings Press Releases of TSX Venture Exchange Firms, forthcoming Accounting Perspectives, 2023.
• Bujaki, M., McConomy, B. and Morrison, L. An Historical Perspective on Water and the Environment: Insights and Implications from Environmental Philosophy and the Construction of the Erie and Rideau Canals, forthcoming Accounting History, 2023.
• Ben-Amar, W., Bujaki, M., McConomy, B., and McIlkenny, P., 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, September 2022 (see https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.2267).
• 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., 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, 2022 (see doi:10.1177/10323732211028366).
• Ben-Amar, W., Bujaki, M., McConomy, B., and McIlkenny, P., 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, March 2021 (see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2020.102170).
• Kieso, Weygandt, Warfield, Wiecek and McConomy, Intermediate Accounting, 12th Canadian Edition, Volumes I and II, John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd., 2019.
• 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 https://goo.gl/XFWtC4).
• 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 https://goo.gl/uGjuLX).
• 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.