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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Research areas
Accounting
History/Historiography
Management
Management Control
Mercantilism
Networks
Performance Measurement
Theory
Pillars
Publications during the last 7 years
Papers in Refereed Journals
- McWatters, C.S. Continuing to innovate and build our community. Accounting History Review, 35: 1-2.
- McWatters, C.S. Reflections from the Editor’s Desk. Accounting History Review, 333(2-3): 55-57.
- McWatters, C.S. Accounting [in] history in the COVID-19 era. Accounting History Review, 31(3): 253-254.
- McWatters, C.S. Accounts and assemblage: twists, turns, and the tales we tell. Accounting History Review, 30(3): 251-262.
Books
- McWatters, C.S., Lemarchand, Y. Accounting Narrative and the Slave Trade: The Work, Life and Times of Claude Gaignat, 1719-1791. London, UK: Routledge, 2025.
- McWatters, C.S. Mercantilism, Account Keeping and the Periphery-Core Relationship. London, UK: Routledge, 2019.
Chapters in Books
- Lemarchand, Y., 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., 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.
Invited Contributions and/or Technical Reports
- <em>(Book review)</em> McWatters, C.S.. 2019. "Accounting for Alcohol: an accounting history of brewing, distilling and vigniculture".
- <em>(Book review)</em> McWatters, C.S.. 2020. "Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Rosenthal".
Funded Research during the last 7 years
| From-To | Source | Title | Purpose | Type | Role | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-2024 | ICAEW Charitable Trusts | AHR ‘Accounting in History’ Conference (with A. Dobie, Edge Hill University) | S | F | NS | $5,302 |
| 2022-2022 | 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 |
| 2019-2019 | 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 | $0 |
| 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 | $0 |
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
