Aida Sijamic Wahid

Aida Sijamic Wahid is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Toronto. Her research has focused on issues in corporate governance and accounting quality. Aida is interested in the role of external and internal governance mechanisms, such as board of directors, audit committees, auditors, active investors and regulators, in financial reporting quality and firm decision outcomes. Her research agenda is focused on understanding how and under what conditions these and other monitoring mechanisms, alone or combined, alleviate the agency problem and lead to the best financial reporting and firm performance outcomes, especially in the international setting.

Academic Positions

2012 - present  Assistant Professor of Accounting; University of Toronto

Honors and Awards

2016  Dean''s Excellence Award; University of Toronto

2015  Connaught New Researcher Award; University of Toronto

Selected Publications - Papers

Professional Directors and Governance Quality with Kyle Welch Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming

The Effects and the Mechanisms of Board Gender Diversity: Evidence from Financial Manipulation Journal of Business Ethics 2019

Managing Reputation: Evidence from Biographies of Corporate Directors with Ian Gow and Gwen Yu Journal of Accounting and Economics 2018

Director Tenure Diversity and Board Monitoring Effectiveness with Na Li Contemporary Accounting Research 2018

Admitting Mistakes: Home Country Effect on the Reliability of Restatement Reporting with Suraj Srinivasan and Gwen Yu The Accounting Review 2015

Accounting Standards and International Portfolio Holdings with Gwen Yu The Accounting Review 2014

Research and Teaching Interests

Research interests: governance, financial reporting quality, international accounting issues, auditing. Teaching interests: managerial accounting, auditing, financial accounting.