Christine Wiedman
Professor
Accounting and Finance
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Prof/Dr Christine Wiedman, completed her Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA), Fellow Chartered Professional Accountant (FCPA), PhD in Cornell University. Currently she is working as a Professor in University of waterloo. She is awarded as Best Paper Award, Haskell and White Corporate Reporting & Governance Conference, University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award in Teaching and Scholarship, Faculty of Arts, 2011, KPMG Professorship, 2009, Lawrence G. Tapp Excellence in Teaching Award, Ivey MBA Association, 2005. She serves as Editorial Board for the journals Contemporary Accounting Research, 2007 - present, Accounting Perspectives, 2004 - present and Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 2004- present.
Research Interest
Financial reporting and governance issues, including the determinants of firms' financial reporting and disclosure choices, the role of regulation on corporate fraud, and the interpretation of accounting information by capital market participants. Current projects examine: voluntary disclosure of political spending, whistleblower provisions of the Dodd-Frank Reform Act of 2010; gender diversity on corporate boards, changes in reporting and disclosure quality for restatement firms; and the role of gender in the reward of research collaboration.
Publications
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Huson MR, Tian Y, Wiedman CI, Wier HA. Compensation committees treatment of earnings components in CEOs terminal years. The Accounting Review. 2011 Aug;87(1):231-59.
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Wiedman CI, Hendricks KB. Firm Accrual Quality Following Restatements: A Signaling View. Journal of Business Finance & Accounting. 2013 Nov 1;40(9-10):1095-125.
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Marquardt C, Wiedman C. Can Shareholder Activism Improve Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards?. Corporate Governance: An International Review. 2016 Jul 1;24(4):443-61.
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Baloria VP, Marquardt CA, Wiedman CI. A Lobbying Approach to Evaluating the Whistleblower Provisions of the Doddâ€Frank Reform Act of 2010. Contemporary Accounting Research. 2013.
