INTERACTION
ALLIANCES AND RELATIONSHIPS
As part of its mission to interact with academe and practice, UWCISA seeks to create and sustain relationships with academic units with similar objectives and professional associations with an interest in information integrity and information systems assurance.
During the year, UWCISA supported the following organizations.
AICPA
Efrim Boritz is a member of the AICPA’s Trust Services Information Integrity Task Force and Cybersecurity Assurance Task Force.
AUDITING AND ASSURANCE STANDARDS BOARD (AASB)
Tim Bauer is a member of the AASB Audit Evidence Advisory Group.
CPA CANADA
Malik Datardina is a member of CPA Canada’s Audit Data Analytics Committee, Technology Advisory Committee, and Audit and Assurance Technology Committee.
Louise Hayes is a member of CPA Canada’s Audit and Assurance Technology Committee.
Theo Stratopoulos is a member of CPA Canada’s Audit Data Analytics Task Force.
INSTITUTE OF INTERNAL AUDITORS (IIA)
Adam Vitalis is the UWCISA liaison with IIA and is leading UWCISA’s initiative in assisting the School of Accounting and Finance to maintain its accredited program under the IIA’s IAEP (Internal Audit Education Program). Adam and Tim Bauer are updating course offerings to continue this initiative.
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY INSTITUTE (CPI)
Efrim Boritz is a member of the CPI’s Operational Security expertise area.
Alec Cram is a member of the CPI’s Human and Societal Aspects of Security and Privacy, and Operational Security expertise areas.
Theo Stratopoulos is a member of the CPI’s Human and Societal Aspects of Security and Privacy, Data Science Security and Privacy, and Privacy-enhancing Technologies expertise areas.
WATERLOO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE (WATERLOO.AI)
Efrim Boritz is an academic member of Waterloo.AI.
Theo Stratopoulos is an academic member of Waterloo.AI.
EDITORIAL BOARDS AND JOURNALS
- Accounting Forum – Krista Fiolleau
- Accounting Perspectives (AP) – Louise, Hayes, Adam Vitalis
- Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS) - Keehyung Kim
- Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory (AJPT) – Tim Bauer, Adam Vitalis
- Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) – Tim Bauer, Krista Fiolleau
- Current Issues in Auditing – Efrim Boritz
- Information Systems Journal (ISJ) – Alec Cram
- International Journal of Accounting Information Systems (IJAIS) – Efrim Boritz, Theo Stratopoulos
- Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting (JETA) – Efrim Boritz
- Journal of Information Systems (JIS) – Efrim Boritz, Louise Hayes, Theo Stratopoulos
Special issue of the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems
- Theo Stratopoulos and Victor Wang will be the guest editors of the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems for a special issue on Artificial Intelligence, with a focus on Large Language Models, in Accounting. This special issue aims to explore the transformative impact of AI and LLMs on accounting practice and research. A call for papers was placed July 17, 2023 and the special issue will be published in 2025.
DISSEMINATING BEST PRACTICES
As further commitment to its mission to interact with academe and practice, UWCISA personnel made presentations at and attended a number of conferences and workshops during 2023.
COMMUNICATION
UWCISA shares information with stakeholders and other interested parties through various sources: our website and main portal; our key social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, X, and Instagram; and our weblog.
This marks UWCISA’s first online annual report created to summarize its 2023 activities. Previously reports were disseminated both electronically and in hardcopy formats. Past reports from 2015-2022 are available here and reports from 1998-2015 can be requested here.
Our website includes calls for papers and research proposals, a resources section, a number of links and downloadable content, and the UWCISA blog.
Malik Datardina creates content for the blog about technology, security, analytics and innovation in the world of audit and business.