Finance for the Non-Financial Manager

Dr. Tony Dimnik, Assistant Professor of Management Accounting and Control

Queen’s School of Business, Kingston, Ontario

Tony Dimnik is an authority on strategic control systems and the relationship between capital budgeting and strategy. He has contributed to the understanding and practice of Activity-Based Costing and the Balanced Scorecard and his current research is on Open Book Management. He was recently named one of the best university lecturers in Ontario and has served as the chair of the audit committee of several companies. One of his interests is cinema and he often writes and speaks on how accountants are portrayed in the movies.

Clients: Microsoft, Financial Executives International, Alcan, VIA Rail, Canada Post, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Royal Bank, and Cirque du Soleil.

Dr. Clinton Free, Assistant Professor of Accounting

Queen's School of Business, Kingston, Ontario

Clinton Free’s research and teaching focus on management accounting, the behavioural aspects of accounting practice, and supply chain management. He is currently engaged in research on the relationship between trust and accounting, the process of diffusion of management accounting ideas, and the nature of special purpose entities. He is a Rhodes Scholar and has been on the faculties at Oxford University, St Bonaventure University and the University of Guangzhou.

Publications: He has co-authored a research monograph and several textbook chapters and published articles in the Pacific Accounting Review, Australian Accounting Review and Bond Law Review.

Dr. Louis Gagnon, Associate Professor of Finance

Queen's School of Business, Kingston, Ontario

Louis Gagnon is an expert on capital markets and risk-management. His research is published in leading academic journals including the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Journal of Empirical Finance. He is a seasoned practitioner who oversaw the bank’s global interest rate derivatives exposures and developed risk management methodologies and policies during his stint in senior management at the Royal Bank of Canada. He consults for a number of organizations in the finance and the non-finance sectors and is actively involved in executive development both in Canada and abroad. He has been quoted extensively in The Globe and Mail, National Post and Toronto Star and featured on national television and radio programs. His recent editorial in the National Post,“Fees and Leverage”, explains the origins of the credit crisis and provides a five-point plan to reform the financial system.

Mr. John Moore, Assistant Professor of Financial Accounting

Queen's School of Business, Kingston, Ontario

John Moore is an experienced executive educator who is highly regarded in the accounting profession. He has conducted executive development seminars on financial tools for senior managers at Alcan, BMW, DuPont, Canon, Mitel, Shoppers Drug Mart, New Brunswick Power Corporation, Mountain Equipment Co-op, and Canada Post. He also works with members of senior management teams to integrate financial accounting concepts into strategic planning.

Credits:

Six-time winner of the MBA Teaching Excellence Award from Queen’s University; a recipient of the Silver Medal from CMA Canada; Fellow of the Society of Management Accountants of Canada.

Publications: He is the author of five accounting textbooks including a study guide for students preparing for the CA designation.

Dr. Dan Thornton, Professor of Financial Accounting and Risk Management

Queen's School of Business, Kingston, Ontario

Dan Thornton has a distinguished record in research, teaching, and service to the accounting profession. He recently finished a four-year stint as a voting member of the Accounting Standards Board, which sets Canada’s financial accounting standards. In 2000-2001 he was Canada’s first Professional Accounting Fellow at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC. In Canada, he serves periodically as an expert accounting witness for the Department of Justice and recently for the Canadian Senate.

Publications: He recently completed a three-year term as associate editor of The Accounting Review (the journal of the American Accounting Association) and he serves on several editorial boards in Canada, Europe and Asia.