Aida Sijamic Wahid is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on issues in corporate governance and financial reporting quality. Aida is interested in the impact of external and internal governance mechanisms, such as board of directors, audit committees, auditors, active investors and regulators on financial reporting quality and firm decision outcomes. Her research agenda is focused on understanding how and under what conditions various monitoring mechanisms, alone or combined, alleviate the agency problem and lead to the best financial reporting and firm performance outcomes, in domestic and international settings.
Experience
–present
Associate Professor of Accounting, Department of Management, University of Toronto
Education
2012
Harvard University, Doctor of Business Administration
Publications
2019
Professional Directors and Governance Quality, Contemporary Accounting Research
2019
The Effects and the Mechanisms of Board Gender Diversity: Evidence from Financial Manipulation, Journal of Business Ethics
2018
Director Tenure Diversity and Board Monitoring Effectiveness, Contemporary Accounting Research
2018
Managing Reputation: Evidence from Biographies of Corporate Directors, Journal of Accounting and Economics
2015
Admitting Mistakes: Home Country Effect on the Reliability of Restatement Reporting, The Accounting Review
2014
Accounting Standards and International Portfolio Holdings, The Accounting Review