ANNUAL REPORT 2023

UWCISA

OVERVIEW

UWCISA was founded in 1998 by the School of Accounting and Finance and is an administrative sub-unit within the Centre of Accounting Research and Education (CARE), at the University of Waterloo.

The University of Waterloo (UW) is a leading university in Canada and is well known for its information technology-related research, teaching, and entrepreneurship. The School of Accounting and Finance (SAF) is one of Canada’s leading academic units in the accounting and finance fields and has both a Canada-wide and international reputation.

The SAF is a strong supporter of the information integrity and information systems assurance fields, as shown by its leading courses and programs in these areas and related research they have spawned.

The founding sponsors of UWCISA were the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)1. IIA Canada joined the sponsor group on July 1, 2018. The sponsors’ objectives continue to include:

  • improving the quality of education and research in information integrity and information systems assurance; and
  • fostering a close and continuing working relationship between the SAF, the sponsors and other partners with an interest in information integrity and information systems assurance.

1 The following name changes have taken place since the founding of UWCISA. ISACA replaced Information Systems Audit and Control Association on January 1, 2006. The School of Accounting and Finance replaced The School of Accountancy on November 19, 2007. Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) replaced Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) on April 1, 2013. UWCISA was renamed from the Centre for Information Systems Assurance to the Centre for Information Integrity and Information Systems Assurance in 2008 (retaining the acronym UWCISA) in recognition of the need to broaden UWCISA’s mandate and activities beyond systems assurance to information integrity.