MMPA conferences focus on innovations and opportunities afforded by ongoing change.
Meet the Directors
Yue Li
CPA, CMA | Director, MMPA
Each year, the Master of Management & Professional Accounting (MMPA) program hosts a one-day MMPA conference on topics that deal with the forces that are shaping our changing landscape in the accounting profession. Given that we are part of the Institute for Management & Innovation (IMI), the MMPA conferences focus on innovations (technological and otherwise) and opportunities afforded by ongoing change. We explore how accountants apply their human skills/values and professional competencies to continually create value.
The MMPA program, which provides a unique combination of a core MBA curriculum with the CPA pathway, hosts the conference series as part of the student curriculum, inviting academics, members of the accounting profession and practitioners from different disciplines to share their experiences and research to spark new ideas and ways of thinking. We are thankful for our partnerships with CPA Canada and the IMI BIGDataAIHUB (which acts as a sandbox, allowing stakeholders to gather, share ideas and learn about big data and artificial intelligence).
We welcome ideas and collaborations as we move forward – transforming the way accountants think.
Event Highlight
Sustainability: Transdisciplinary, Theory, Practice, and Action
Sustainability: Transdisciplinary, Theory, Practice, and Action
MMPA 2023 Conference Details
Topic: Sustainability: Transdisciplinary, Theory, Practice, and Action
Past Events
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MMPA 2022 Sustainability Metrics and Value Creation: Action in Motion
Organizations embracing sustainability align with ESG expectations, but the lack of an enforceable reporting framework poses challenges. This conference, with industry leaders, explores issues like voluntary reporting and the role of accounting standard setters.
MMPA 2021 Sustainability: A Call to Action
Sustainability entails ensuring the long-term well-being of our environment, society, organizations (including governments), and economy. Organizations practicing sustainability must adopt a higher purpose and be accountable for their economic, social, and environmental impacts.
MMPA 2020 AI and Machine Learning for Complex Business Decision-Making
Corporations use big data analytics, AI, and Machine Learning for marketing and cybersecurity. The conference explores AI's diverse business applications and related impacts in finance, infectious disease monitoring, risk management, supply chain, accounting, and decision-making.
MMPA 2019 Artificial Intelligence: Technology, Governance and Social Innovation
The Master of Management & Professional Accounting Program (MMPA)'s annual conference was dedicated to exploring the impact of AI on the accounting profession. It provided an open forum to demystify AI technology and to explore issues and challenges that corporations, governments, and the accounting profession face when adapting to this technology.
A list of past topics include | |||||
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 | Big Data Analytics and Blockchain Technology |  | Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility: Implications for the Accounting Profession & Research Opportunities |  | Corporate Social Responsibility and Non-Financial Reporting |
 | International Accounting and Globalization |  | Fraud, White Collar Crime, and Forensic Accounting |  | Greater Accountability in the Capital Marketplace and the Principles Versus Rules Debate for Determining GAAP |
 | The Future of the Accounting Profession |  | Towards Global Convergence: International Harmonization of Accounting Standards |  | Fair Value Accounting: Challenges and Implications for the Accounting Profession |
 | Climate Change and Corporate Environmental Strategy: Accounting and Reporting Issues |  | Forensic Accounting, Internal Control and Corporate Governance: Implications for the Accounting Profession and Research Opportunities |  | Risk Management - A New Paradigm for Business, the Accounting Profession & Academe |