New Faculty Seminar Series - Errol Osecki
From Acting to Accounting: An Introduction
Get to know Errol a little better in this seminar as he talks about how he went from a career in professional theatre to professional accounting and what he has been working on since entering academia. Errol’s research projects have ranged from looking at how presidential voting patterns are associated with tax compliance, where auditor’s emotions help and where they hurt them, how emotional intelligence interacts with accountability measures, and whether new technologies are actually disrupting the accounting world or not.
About the Speaker
Errol Osecki, CPA-CA, teaches accounting at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. In addition to his accounting education, Errol Osecki holds degrees in English and fine arts from the University of Saskatchewan; he worked in professional theater and movies for several years before becoming a professional accountant. Prior to entering academia, Errol Osecki enjoyed a longstanding career as a public accountant, focusing on First Nations, not-for-profit, and small government clients. Errol Osecki has taught financial and managerial accounting at the undergraduate and master’s levels at the Schulich School of Business (York University) and at Lakehead University.
His research interests include investigating modern accounting phenomena: he studies how new technologies are changing accounting practices, how the advent of a new national leader changes tax compliance rates, and how feelings and emotions change an accountant’s decision-making around financial information. He has presented his research at conferences across Canada and Europe.