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This Centre funds Queen’s faculty and doctoral student research into Canadian and
international corporate governance issues, especially those that relate to audit committees
and quality financial reporting. The Centre, which is partially funded through the generosity
of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (ICAO), also contributes to the creation
of leading-edge curriculum.
2012/2013 Milestones
Organized the fifth annual Voluntary Sector Reporting
Awards (VSRA) for financial reporting transparency,
which is open to all not-for-profits in Ontario.
Nominations have more than doubled since the
program’s inception, with more than 300 voluntary
sector organizations having been through the rigorous
screening and judging process.
Enlisted a national media sponsor, which resulted
in a two-page supplement in the
National Post’s
Financial Post section, that highlighted VSRA
program winners.
Disseminated corporate governance research findings
through 27 presentations of papers based on centre-
funded projects. One such paper was awarded
“best conference paper” honours at a prestigious
international conference on finance in Taiwan and
was also featured in the
Wall Street Journal
and an
American Bankruptcy Institute Journal
interview.
CPA-Queen’s Centre for Governance
Facilitated more than 100 electronic brainstorming
events, including community consultations in
40 municipalities across Canada, and sessions for
25 national and First Nations groups across the
country. Internally, the Centre facilitated sessions on
behalf of Queen’s School of Medicine, Department
of Psychiatry, Library and Archives, Physical Plant
Services and the Faculty of Health Sciences.
Led several multi-stakeholder collaborations,
including the Ontario Economic Summit that
featured ten regional think tanks and culminated in a
provincial conference attended by the Ontario Premier.
Partnered in facilitating research sessions in such
areas as rural economic development, waterfront
planning, economic security of women in Ontario,
immigrant settlement, cancer screening practices,
national health human resource planning, children’s
mental health, youth bullying and harassment,
autism, and injury prevention
Canada’s first electronic group-decision support facility remains much in demand. Participants in
meetings facilitated by Centre staff — either at Goodes Hall or using the Portable Decision
Centre in their own locations — use innovative QSB facilitation and special software to contribute
their expertise to the discussions. In this way the Centre supports the strategic planning and
decision-making tasks of executive teams from private- and public-sector organizations and
is also used by Queen’s faculty, staff and students.
2012/2013 Milestones
Queen’s Executive Decision Centre
Canadian Feed the Children winners
(left) with the ICAO’s Rod Barr
Associate Director Erik Lockhart
facilitates a session on healthcare
