Leonard J. Brooks
Professor of Business Ethics & Accounting
Executive Director, Professional Accounting Centre (PAC)
Director, Master of Forensic Accounting (MFAcc)
Director, Diploma in Forensic Accounting (DIFA)
University of Toronto Mississauga
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Email: brooks@rotman.utoronto.ca
Website: Rotman School of Management
BIO
Len Brooks is Director of U of T’s Professional Accounting Centre, and its Master of Forensic Accounting Program, as well as the Academic Director of the Institute for Management & Innovation’s IMIx Executive Programs unit. He was also, for 23 years, the Director of the MMPA Program and its predecessor, the MBA in Professional Accounting Program. Len has been a Full Professor of Business Ethics & Accounting since 1987 and has successfully taught Business Ethics & Governance (MGT1202), Managerial Accounting (MGT1222), Management Control (MGT2260), and Accounting Theory & Research (MGT2280).
An expert in accounting, forensics, governance and ethics, Len comments often on radio and TV. His co-authored pioneering textbook, Business and Professional Ethics for Directors, Executives & Accountants, appeared in its ninth edition in 2020, and is widely used around the world. His co-authored book, Ethics & Governance: Developing & Maintaining an Ethical Corporate Culture, has been used by both for-profit corporations and not-for-profit organizations as a foundation for their organizational development.
EDUCATION
MBA, University of Toronto
B.Com., University of Toronto FCPA, FCA
TEACHING & RESEARCH INTERESTS
Teaches courses in in Business and Professional Ethics Governance, Management Control, Current Accounting Issues, Professional Affairs, Business Ethics for Managers, and Accounting Theory and Research.
Research interests include Business Ethics, Management Control, Corporate Governance, Strategic Planning, Codes of Conduct, Ethics Audits and Ethical Assurance, Crisis Management, and Developing and Maintaining an Ethical Corporate Culture.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS - Papers
• Ethics Education for Professional Accountants: Discussant's Comments on Business Ethics Education
L.J. Brooks Proceedings of the New Pillars of Accounting Education Conference, 2011, pp. 54-58
• Education for Investigative and Forensic Accounting
Len Brooks and Real Labelle Canadian Accounting Perspectives, Issue 5(2), 2006, pp. 287-306
• Conflict of Interest in the Accounting Profession
M. David, A. Stark, and L.J. Brooks Conflict of Interest in the Professions, Oxford University Press, New York, 2002, pp. 92- 111
• Codes of Conduct: Trust, Innovation, Commitment and Productivity: A Strategic- Cultural Perspective
L.J. Brooks Global Outlook: An International Journal of Business, Economics, and Social Policy, Issue 12(2), 2000, pp. 1-11
• Sustainability Auditing and Reporting: The Canadian Experience
L.J. Brooks Journal of Business Ethics, Issue 17, 1998, pp. 1499-1507
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS - Books & Chapters
• Business & Professional Ethics for Directors
Leonard J. Brooks & Paul Dunn Cengage Learning, Inc., 2021
• Business & Professional Ethics for Directors, Executives & Accountants
Leonard J. Brooks & Paul Dunn Cengage Learning, Stamford, CT, USA, 2018
• Corporate Responsibility
L.J Brooks An invited chapter in Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Elsevier Limited, Oxford, UK, 2012, pp. 645-655
• Ethics & Governance
Leonard J. Brooks & David Selley Canadian Centre for Ethics & Corporate Policy, 2012, pp. 238
• The Individual in the Workplace Leonard J. Brooks, edited by W. Peter Kissick An invited chapter in Business Ethics: Concepts, Cases and Canadian Perspectives, 2012, pp. 187-202
HONORS & AWARDS
2011
George Baxter Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Canadian Academic Association
2000
Ethics in Action Award: Ongoing Social Responsibility - Individual
1991
Peel Regional Police Citation
1989
Citation for Outstanding Service, The Canadian Academic Accounting Association
1982
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (FCA)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/ MEMBERSHIPS
2015 onwards
Editorial Review Board, Journal of Forensic Accounting Research, American Accounting Association
2009 onwards
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Forensic & Investigative Accounting, American Accounting Associatio