Sound-Up Governance (ep.38) - Could auditors be governance superheroes? (feat. Professor Aida Sijamic Wahid)
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TRANSCRIPT Matt Voiceover Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. This week's episode features my inspiring friend Aida Sijamic Wahid, who's an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Toronto. That might not sound very corporate governance-y, until you check out Aida's research including papers titled, "Professional directors and governance quality," or "The effects and mechanisms of board gender diversity: evidence from financial manipulation," or "Director tenure and board monitoring mistakes." I remember the very first time I met Aida, probably right around when she started at the Rotman School of Management back in 2012. And how clear it was from the start that she's one of those really fun academics who cares a lot about the practical value of her work. She was gracious enough to come by my office to chat about her work and have a fun and deeply nerdy conversation about governance research, and whether auditors might be a secret weapon for boards. Incidentally, Aida was an auditor in a previous life. How did she get from there to academia and corporate governance?
Sound-Up Governance (ep.38) - Could auditors be governance superheroes? (feat. Professor Aida Sijamic Wahid)
Sound-Up Governance (ep.38) - Could auditors…
Sound-Up Governance (ep.38) - Could auditors be governance superheroes? (feat. Professor Aida Sijamic Wahid)
TRANSCRIPT Matt Voiceover Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. This week's episode features my inspiring friend Aida Sijamic Wahid, who's an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Toronto. That might not sound very corporate governance-y, until you check out Aida's research including papers titled, "Professional directors and governance quality," or "The effects and mechanisms of board gender diversity: evidence from financial manipulation," or "Director tenure and board monitoring mistakes." I remember the very first time I met Aida, probably right around when she started at the Rotman School of Management back in 2012. And how clear it was from the start that she's one of those really fun academics who cares a lot about the practical value of her work. She was gracious enough to come by my office to chat about her work and have a fun and deeply nerdy conversation about governance research, and whether auditors might be a secret weapon for boards. Incidentally, Aida was an auditor in a previous life. How did she get from there to academia and corporate governance?