Ivey Faculty & Research

Mitchell Stein

Assistant Professor, Managerial Accounting and Control

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Mitchell Stein is a an Assistant Professor of Managerial Accounting and Control at the Richard Ivey School of Business. He holds a BComm Honours (Queen's University) and a PhD (Queen's University). Mitchell is also a Chartered Accountant who formerly practiced in corporate, research and development, executive and cross border taxation with Deloitte for 10 years.

Mitchell previously taught at Queen's University and at the Ontario School of Accountancy. He has received a number of awards including being an Ontario Graduate Scholar, American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow and he received The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario Doctoral Fellowship.

Mitchell's research interests span both financial accounting and taxation. In particular he is interested in corporate governance issues, transparency and regulation within accounting in terms of broader issues of social control. His current focus is on researching the emergence of the modern corporation in the United States and the role of accounting using historical research focused on source documentary evidence from the formation of U.S. corporate law.

Teaching

  • Financial Fundamentals, HBA Core
  • Management Accounting and Control, HBA Core

Selected Publications

  • Stein, M. (2008), "Beyond the Boardroom: Governmental Perspectives on Corporate Governance", Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 21(7), pp. 1001-25.
  • Free, C., Macintosh, N. and Stein, M. (2007), "The Organizational Fraud Triangle: Leadership, Culture and Control within Enron", Ivey Business Journal, 71(6).
  • Salterio, S., Shearer, T., and Stein, M. (2008), "Transparency in Accounting and Corporate Governance: Mutiple Meanings in a Misunderstood Multi-Audience Media-Based Discourse", Working Paper.

Research/Course Development

  • Accounting Regulation
  • Field and Archival - Based Research

Experience

  • Lecturer, Queen's University
  • Senior Manager, Deloitte 1995-2003

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