Dr. Gulraze Wakil
Overview
Gulraze Wakil is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Ted Rogers School of Management. He enjoys teaching in both areas of financial and management accounting. His research includes IFRS, management incentives, accounting education, and the broad area of financial accounting and capital markets. He has published in top journals including the Canadian Tax Journal, Journal of Economics and Finance, Accounting Research Journal, and a management accounting case in Accounting Perspectives. While doing his PhD, Gulraze was awarded the best PhD student manuscript by the Ohio region of the American Accounting Association.
Prior to embarking on his doctoral studies, Gulraze held accounting positions in the insurance industry progressing to the management level in Toronto. His practical experiences enrich his accounting research and courses he teaches.
Teaching Interests
Financial and Management accounting
Accounting information and capital markets, earnings vs book value, management accounting
C. Lento, S. Moores, N. Sayed, and G. Wakil. 2022. Leveraging the balanced scorecard to reformulate the strategy of a performing arts theater: a stateholders perspective. Journal of Appplied Accounting Research, forthcoming doi.org/10.1108/JAAR-11-2021-0308 (external link) 
Wakil, G. and K. Petruska. 2022. Does Mandatory IFRS Adoption Affect Large and Small Public Firms' Accounting Quality Differently? Evidence from Canada. Advances in Accounting, forthcoming.Petruska and Wakil, 2021. Remedies for the Expectations Gap: The Internal Auditing Perspective. Internal Auditing Vol.36 (3): 17-24.G. Wakil. 2020. Firm size proxies and the value relevance of predictive stock return models. Journal of Economics & Finance Vol. 44(3): 434-457.
Wakil and Nemiroff, 2017. Dividend Taxation and Stock Returns: Time Series Analysis of Canada and Comparison with the United States. Canadian Tax Journal. Vol. 65(1): 1-36.Wakil and Alam, 2015. Conservatism, Accrual Persistence Asymmetry, and Stock Returns. Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting. Vol. 13: 165-199.Wakil, 2014. Market-to-book ratio and conditional conservatism: Firms’ voluntary expensing of employee stock options. Accounting Research Journal. Vol. 27(2): 124-149.Petruska and Wakil, 2013. Firm Valuation, Market Responses, and Accounting Conservatism. Journal of Applied Business Research. Vol. 29(3): 793-808.Wakil and Petruska, 2012. Condominium Townhouse Investment teaching case. Accounting Perspectives. Vol. 11(4): 323-332.
| Year | Presentation title |
|---|---|
| 2019 | CAAA Annual Conference – Ottawa, ON. |
| 2019 | AAA International Accounting Section Mid-Year Meeting – Miami, FL (sole-authored). |
| 2015 | U. of Ottawa Telfer Annual one day Conference on Accounting and Finance - “Alternate Firm Size Proxies: Value Relevance and Abnormal Stock Returns” |
Teaching Interests
Financial and Management accounting
| Course code | Course title |
|---|---|
| AFA 200 | Management Accounting |
| Year | Honour / Award |
|---|---|
| 2019 | CAAA Annual Conference, Scientific Committee Reviewer for 11 submissions |
| 2009 | Dean’s Best Paper Award, Kent State University |
| 2009 | AAA Ohio Region Best Ph.D. Student Manuscript |
| 2007 | CGA Canada Doctoral Fellowship |