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Aida Sijamic Wahid

Associate Professor of Accounting, Department of Management, University of Toronto

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