Cheryl McWatters
Full Professor
B.A. (Hon.) (Queen's), M.B.A. (with distinction) (Queen's), CMA (Certified Management Accountant), Ph.D. (Queen's), CPA, CMA (Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario)
- Location
- DMS 7103
- Telephone
- 613-562-5800 x 4702
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Publications during the last 7 years
Papers in Refereed Journals
- McWatters, C.S. 2023. Reflections from the Editor’s Desk. Accounting History Review, 333(2-3): 55-57.
- McWatters, C.S. 2021. Accounting [in] history in the COVID-19 era. Accounting History Review, 31(3): 253-254.
- McWatters, C.S. 2020. Accounts and assemblage: twists, turns, and the tales we tell. Accounting History Review, 30(3): 251-262.
- McWatters, C.S. 2018. Coincidences, contingencies, multiplicities and patterns. Accounting History Review, 28(3): 145-148.
- McWatters, C.S. 2018. Indeed, ‘they do things differently there’. Accounting History Review, 28(1): 1-3.
Books
- McWatters, C.S. Mercantilism, Account Keeping and the Periphery-Core Relationship. London, UK: Routledge, 2019.
Chapters in Books
- Lemarchand, Y. and McWatters, C.S. Credit and Debt. In Burnard, T.. Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2022.
- McWatters, C.S. Mercantilism and Accounting Across Space and Time. In Mercantilism, Account Keeping and the Periphery-Core Relationship. London, UK: Routledge, 2019.
- McWatters, C.S. and Lemarchand, Y. Trade, truck, barter, and custom: the markets for slave-trade merchandise in Africa. In McWatters, C.S.. Mercantilism, Account Keeping and the Periphery-Core Relationship. London and New York: Routledge, 2019.
Other Scholarly Contributions
- (Book review) McWatters, C.S. 2020. "Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Rosenthal". Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. xiv + 295pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth; ISBN 9780674972094, US $35.00, Paper; ISBN 9780674241657, US $18.95, Canadian Business Association Online [https://cbha-acha.ca/index.php/book-reviews/]
- (Book review) McWatters, C.S. 2019. "Accounting for Alcohol: an accounting history of brewing, distilling and vigniculture".
Funded Research during the last 7 years
| From-To | Source | Title | * | ** | Role | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | ICAEW Charitable Trusts | AHR ‘Accounting in History’ Conference (with A. Dobie, Edge Hill University) | S | F | NS | $ 5,302 |
| 2022 | ICAEW Charitable Trusts | AHR ‘Accounting in History’ Conference (with A. Dobie, Edge Hill University) | S | F | NS | $ 4,860 |
| 2019-2023 | SSHRC | The Role of Internal Audit Reports in Public Sector Risk Management | R | C | Collaborator | $ 83,660 |
| 2019 | ICAEW Charitable Trusts | AHR ‘Accounting in History’ Conference (with A. Dobie, Edge Hill University) | S | F | NS | $ 4,050 |
| 2018-2023 | SSHRC | The Stable Money Association: The Performativity of Economic Models (Co-investigator M.E. Persson, University of Illinois, previously Ivey Business School) | R | C | PI | $ 35,800 |
| 2011 | Telfer School of Management (4A SSHRC Program) | Mercantilism and Accounting Records: A Longitudinal Analysis of Profits, Costing and The Hudson's Bay Company's Survival | R | I | PI | $ 6,000 |
| 2011 | University of Ottawa Interdisciplinary Research Initiatives Program: | Development of Interdisciplinary Initiatives in Corporate Social Responsibility: Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Telfer School of Management | R | I | PI | $ 4,000 |
| 2007 | University of Alberta Killam Cornerstone Grant Program | Grant for the APIRA (Asia-Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting) Conference, Auckland, New Zealand | R | O | PI | $ 3,600 |
| 2005 | University of Alberta SSHRC 4A Award | Self-Government Exists. How do we exercise it? | R | O | PI | $ 5,000 |
| 1998 | McGill University Faculty of Management Small Research Grant | The Kingston Shipping Company Limited: A Counter-Example in the History of Great Lakes Shipping | R | O | PI | N/A |
| 1995 | McGill University Faculty of Management Small Research Grant | Archival research related to "A Content-Analysis Study of Late-Nineteenth Century Accounting Records" | R | O | PI | N/A |
LEGEND:
*Purpose
C: Contract (R and D) | E: Equipment Grant | R: Research Grant | S: Support Award | P: Pedagogical Grant | O: Other, U: Unknown
**Type
C: Granting Councils | G: Government | F: Foundations | I: UO Internal Funding | O: Other | U: Unknown
Role
PI = Principal Investigator | Co-I = Co-Investigator | Co-PI = Co-Principal Investigator
