Professor Gordon Richardson is the KPMG Professor of Accounting at the Joseph L Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1983 and his FCA designation from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario in 1991. Currently Editor of Contemporary Accounting Research, the fourth ranked academic accounting journal in the world, his research interests include environmental accounting, the role of information in the pricing of equity securities, voluntary disclosure and the quality of disclosure in annual reports and accounting based valuation models. He has over 20 refereed publications and has published in a number of leading journals in accounting and finance.
Professor Richardson is Honorary Professor at The University of Queensland Business School, where he has twice been visiting scholar. In 2003, he was invited to give a Plenary Address to the July Conference of The Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, on the topic of accounting based valuation models. Reflecting his growing interest in the Asia Pacific region, he is currently Associate Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics. In 2001, he enjoyed the honour of being visiting scholar for two weeks at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |