AMIS 2022 / KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Alessandro Ghio
Alessandro Ghio is an Assistant Professor in Accounting at Laval University (Quebec, Canada). They hold a Ph.D. in financial accounting from ESSEC Business School (Paris, France) and a Ph.D. in management from the University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy). Their research focuses on issues surrounding the sociology of the accounting profession (in particular about issues concerning women and queer people in the accounting profession), and corporate social media communication. Alessandro is an associate editor of Accounting Horizons and a guest editor of Issues in Accounting Education.
Alessandro and Carly will deliver a keynote on "How do we integrate supporting practices, wellbeing and performance in accounting firms?" on June 8 2022, 15.30-16.30 CEST+1 time (GMT+3) (Bucharest time). Accounting firms have made strides towards better supporting practices in the accounting profession, in particular for women, for instance by implementing numerous supporting initiatives. So why are we still not seeing better wellbeing and lower burnout in accounting firms? Why are we still not seeing enough women in senior accounting roles and why do women accountants leave their jobs? How did COVID-19 impact accountants' wellbeing? What solutions should accounting firms look for? These are questions that have plagued us as experienced educators who for many years have been educating emerging leaders in accounting.
In this talk, Alessandro Ghio explores these questions by building on studies conducted with Carly Moulang (Monash University) involving surveys, interviews and written reflections from over 250 qualified women accountants. They lay out some of their key findings with the hope that this research can provide unique insights into supporting practices, wellbeing and performance and be a catalyst for authentic change in the profession.
Carly Moulang
Carly Moulang is an Associate Professor at Monash University with over 20 years experience in Higher Education. She holds a Ph.D. from Monash Business School and Graduate Diploma in Psychology from Monash University. Carly has won multiple awards for her teaching and research, and in 2021 she won a global award from CGMA Global University and Academic Centre for Excellence for Global Distinguished Excellence, Most Influential Lecturer. Carly conducts multidisciplinary research and is passionate about incorporating psychological research within business disciplines. In 2020 Carly won the Dean’s Commendation Award for Excellence in Equity, Diversity and Social Inclusion (Research). Carly’s research has been widely disseminated via television, documentaries, podcasts, radio interviews and news articles. She also regularly writes for Thrive Global APAC and is a facilitator for Thrive Global.
Maria Rykaczewski
Maria (Wieczynska) Rykaczewski is an assistant professor at the School of Accountancy at W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. She joined ASU in 2013. Professor Rykaczewski researches international financial reporting issues. Her projects examine the effect of regulation, enforcement, and other country-level and exchange-specific features on the quality of financial reporting and auditing. In her work, she also looks at the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) with a focus on the costs and the effectiveness of implementing global reporting standards at the national level. Her research has been published in The Accounting Review and in Contemporary Accounting Research. A recent project by prof. Rykaczewski was highlighted in the Oxford Business Law Blog. In 2020, she received the Arizona CPA Foundation for Education and Innovation in Teaching Award for her teaching at ASU. Prior to joining ASU, professor Wieczynska completed her PhD at Emory University.
Maria Vulcheva
Dr. Maria I. Vulcheva is an assistant professor of accounting at Florida International University. Her academic work has been published in Management Science, Accounting Horizons, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy.
A member of the American Accounting Association and the European Accounting Association, Dr. Vulcheva has participated in many conferences and has five papers in process including one based on her doctoral dissertation: “International Accounting Standardization across Countries with Unequal Enforcement—Questionable Benefits at a High Price?”
Maria Rykaczewski and Maria Vulcheva will deliver a keynote on "Research on EU and non-EU EEC countries. Trends, problems, and perspectives", on June 9 16.00-17.30 CEST+1 time (GMT+3) (Bucharest time). . Their talk is informed by the results of two literature reviews recently conducted and to be published soon in the Journal of International Accounting Research, one for CEE countries members of the EU and the other one on CEE countries that are not members of the EU.