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William R. Scott
Education
Academic Degrees
Institution
Year
Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Thesis title: "A Bayesian Approach to the
Accounting Problems of Asset Valuation
and Audit Size."
1973
M.B.A.
University of Chicago
1968
B. Comm.
Carleton University
1953
Year
Professional Designations
C.A.
I.C.A.O.
1956
F.C.A.
I.C.A.O.
1985
Employment History
Years
Position/Rank
1996 to date
Queen's University
1996 to date
University of Waterloo
1991-1996
University of Waterloo
1984-1996
University of Waterloo
1983
Visiting Professor
University of Waterloo
1982, 1983
Concordia University
1978-1983
Queen's University
1970-1978
Associate Professor
Queen's University
Sessional Lecturer
University of Chicago
Employer
-21969-1970
Associate Professor
Carleton University
1961-1968
Assistant Professor
Carleton University
1956-1961
Doran Construction
Co. Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario
1953-1956
Student-in-Accounts
Year
1991- 1996
1988
1980-1983
$20,000
Memberships
Canadian Academic Accounting Association
American Accounting Association
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario
University Activities
-3a)
teaching - undergraduate
- financial accounting theory, research methodology.
teaching - graduate (over the last several years)
- ACC 782 - Ph.D. Seminar for incoming Ph.D. Students, University of Waterloo, Winter,
1995 (with A. Atkinson), Winter, 1996 (with K. Klassen), Winter, 1997, Winter, 1998.
- BUS 810 - School of Business, Queens University, Winter, 1998, Fall, 1998.
- ACC 601 - Research Methodology, Master of Accounting (MACC) program, University of
Waterloo, various years.
- Ph.D. Seminar in Auditing, University of Waterloo, Winter, 1989; Spring, 1996.
- Ph.D. Seminar in Financial Accounting Theory, University of Waterloo, Fall, 1991
(with L. Eckel and G. Richardson); Fall, 1995.
- Ph.D. Seminar in Financial Accounting Theory, Concordia University, Fall, 1993.
b)
administrative
Chairman, Graduate Studies Committee, School of Accountancy, University of Waterloo, 19841989. Responsible for preparation and submission of proposal for Ph.D. program in Accounting,
Fall, 1985. Graduate Officer, School of Accountancy, 1987-1989 and 1995-1996. Member of
various other committees.
Various university and departmental committees at Queen's University
c)
-4Peking University, Beijing, and Department of Accountancy, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, Hong Kong. Beijing, June, 1999
- Distinguished Visiting Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, May, 1997
- Editor, Contemporary Accounting Research, 1989-1991
- Member, Editorial Board, Contemporary Accounting Research, 1984-to date
- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Accounting Research, 1978-1989
- Member, Editorial Board, The Accounting Review, 1978-1981
- Member, Editorial Board, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, 1987-1990
- Chair, CAAA Journal Review Committee, 2003-4
- Chair, CAAA Research Committee, 1981-1986
- Member, CAAA Research Committee, 1979-1980, 1995
- Member, AAA Research Advisory Committee, 1979-1980
- Member, AAA Doctoral Consortium Committee, 1983
- Organizer, Symposium for Canadian Ph.D. Students in Accounting, Queen's University, 1982
- Organizer, CAAA Accounting Educators' Symposium, Queen's University (with J.C.
Moore), 1983
- Program Chairman, CAAA Annual Conference, Guelph, Ontario, 1984
- Book Review Editor, C.A. Magazine, 1974-1975
- Member, Professional Schools of Accounting Assessment Committee, Institute of
Chartered Accountants of Ontario, 1991
- Member, Audit Research Agenda Committee, Audit Section, American Accounting
Association,1986-1990
- Treasurer, Childrens' Aid Society of Kingston and Islands, 1982-1983
- Board Member, Childrens' Aid Society of Kingston and Islands, 1981-1983
- Member, Audit Committee, Multiple Organ Retrieval and Exchange Program of Ontario
(MORE), 1990-1995
- Board member, Brockville-Leeds-Grenville Branch, Victorian Order of Nurses, 2004--Papers Presented at Conferences and Seminars
Papers Presented
"A Statistical Decision Theory Approach to Asset Valuation by Accountants", American Accounting
Association (Canadian Region), June 3, 1972.
"Loss Functions Implicit in Consumption-Investment Models", 5th Annual Research Forum, Ontario
Schools of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, 17 April 1974.
"Bayesian Loss Functions and Audit Size Calculations", joint meeting ORSA/TIMS, San Juan, Puerto
Rico, 17 October 1974.
"Auditors Loss Functions Implicit in Consumption-Investment Models", Conference on Statistical
Methodology in Auditing, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 2 May 1975.
"An Audit and Reporting Procedure when User's Decision Models are Unknown", American
Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 25 August 1976.
"Dimensions and Evaluation of Current Research in Auditing Using Information Economics", American
-6Papillon.
The Social Value of Audited Financial Statement Information," Invited Seminar, College of Business
Administration, The University of Minnesota, 23 January 1981, and College of Business
Administration, University of Iowa, 16 April, 1981.
"The Nature and Role of Research to Support Standard-Setting in Financial Accounting in Canada," a
symposium sponsored by the Clarkson Gordon Foundation, 19-21 May, 1981, Dalhousie
University, Halifax. Discussant of paper "Agency Theory Research and Financial Accounting
Standards," by A.A. Atkinson and G.A. Feltham.
"Academic Research in Auditing," invited presentation to plenary session, CAAA Annual Meeting,
Halifax, 22 May, 1981.
"Maintenance of Capital; Financial Versus Physical," a symposium sponsored by the Clarkson Gordon
Foundation under the auspices of the Faculty of Business Administration and Commerce, The
University of Alberta, 17-19 August, 1981. Discussant.
"The Social Value of Audited Financial Statement Information," Invited Seminar, University of Calgary,
Calgary, 24 November 1982.
The Sixth Illinois Auditing Research Symposium, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, 9-10
November, 1984. Discussant of "On the Fundamental Nature of Professional Opinions: The
Traditional, Bayesian and Epistemic Methods of Attestation."
University of Waterloo, Auditing Research Symposium, Waterloo, 6-7 November, 1987. Discussant of
"The Auditor's Off-Equilibrium Behaviors."
CAR Conference, McMaster University, 7-8 August, 1988.
Divisional Performance Measurement."
"A Framework for Classification of Analytical Research Models in Auditing," Invited Seminar,
University of Calgary, 19 April, 1991.
1991 Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, SUNY Buffalo, September, 1991.
Discussant of "Determinants of the Production of Information," by Neil D. Pearson.
"Accounting Research: From Practice or Academe," Invited Seminar, Samson Blair/Deloitte Touche
Seminar Series, UQAM, Montreal, 22 November, 1991 (with Peter D. Chant).
CAR Conference, Banff, Alberta, 28 April - 1 May, 1995. Discussion of Two Models of AuditorClient Interaction, by S. C. Hansen and J. S. Watts.
Auditor Liability and Current Investors Welfare, with P. Zhang. Invited Seminar, Faculty of
Administration, University of Ottawa, 23 February, 1996.
"A Model of the Intensity and Valuation of Executive Stock Options," with A. Douglas, P. Boyle, and
Ping Zhang. Research Seminar, School of Business, Queen's University, 17 April, 1998.
-7Publications
Books
Scott, W.R., Financial Accounting Theory, (Upper Saddle River, NJ and Toronto, Ontario: Prentice
Hall Inc. and Prentice Hall Canada Inc., 1997). Published simultaneously in U.S. and Canadian
versions. Third edition of Canadian version published by Prentice Hall Canada, 2003. Fourth
edition currently in preparation. Chinese edition translated by Prof. Chen Hanwen, Xiamen
University and published by China Machine Press, 2000.
Chapters in Books
Scott, W.R., Certain Accounting Aspects of Telecommunications Regulation, In H.E. English, ed.,
Telecommunications for Canada (Toronto: Methuen, 1973), pp. 315-338.
Scott, W.R., Comments on "Agency Theory Research and Financial Accounting Standards," In S. Basu
and J.A. Milburn, Eds., Research to Support Standard Setting in Financial Accounting: A
Canadian Perspective, Proceedings of the 1981 Clarkson Gordon Foundation Research
Symposium. Toronto, Clarkson Gordon Foundation, (1981) pp. 294-298.
Scott, W.R., Discussion of Papers Presenting and Evaluating the Canadian, United Kingdom, Australian
and United States Proposals On Accounting for Changing Prices, Chapter 10, In R. Sterling and
K. Lemke, Eds., Maintenance of Capital: Financial Versus Physical, Scholars Book Co. (1982)
pp. 259-266.
Scott, W.R., Audit Approaches and Techniques, with A.D. Akresh and J.K. Loebbecke, in A.R. Abdelkhalik and I. Solomon, Eds., Research Opportunities in Auditing: The Second Decade, Sarasota,
Florida: American Accounting Association: Auditing Section, 1988, Chap. 2.
Papers in Refereed Journals
Scott, W.R., A Bayesian Approach to Asset Valuation and Audit Size, The Journal of Accounting
Research, 11, No. 2 (Autumn, 1973), pp. 304-330.
Scott, W.R., Auditors Loss Functions Implicit in Consumption - Investment Models, Studies in
Statistical Methodology in Auditing. Supplement to The Journal of Accounting Research, 13
(1975), pp. 98-117.
Scott, W.R., Group Preference Orderings for Audit and Valuation Alternatives: The Single-Peakedness
Condition, The Journal of Accounting Research, 15, No. 1 (Spring 1977), pp. 120-138.
Scott, W.R., Scoring Rules for Probabilistic Reporting, The Journal of Accounting Research, 17, No.
1 (Spring, 1979), pp. 156-178.
Scott, W.R., and A.A. Atkinson, "Current Cost Depreciation: A Programming Perspective," Journal of
Business Finance and Accounting, 9, No. 1, (Spring 1982), pp. 19-41.
November 2004