Kin Lo, PhD, FCPA, FCA is the Senior Associate Dean–Students at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. He holds the CPA Professorship in Accounting established by the Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia (CPABC). After receiving a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Calgary, he articled at PricewaterhouseCoopers and subsequently earned his doctorate from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago in 1999. His research has been published in the most important accounting journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, and Journal of Accounting and Economics, and he served as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Accounting and Economics from 2003 to 2011.

Since joining UBC in 1999, Professor Lo has taught extensively in intermediatelevel financial accounting for undergraduates, as well as master and doctoral-level courses. He has coached numerous winning teams in regional, national, and global case competitions. His outstanding teaching has been recognized by the Killam Teaching Prize. Kin has also been a visiting professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and the University of California at Irvine’s Merage School of Business.

Aside from research and teaching, Kin is also active in the professional accounting community, serving on provincial and national committees and contributing as a columnist to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia’s magazine Beyond Numbers. From 2008 to 2011, Professor Lo was a member of the Board of Evaluators for the Chartered Accountants’ national Uniform Final Evaluation (UFE). He is a member of the Academic Advisory Council for the Accounting Standards Board of Canada. In recognition of his contributions to accounting education, he was awarded Fellowship by the CPABC in 2013. Kin is also an avid sailor.

George Fisher, MBA, CPA, CGA is the coordinator for the accounting option in the Bachelor of Business Administration degree program offered by Douglas College. He teaches financial reporting in the College’s BBA and Post-Degree programs and facilitates financial reporting courses for the Chartered Professional Accountants’ Western School of Business.

Mr. Fisher has been actively involved in the development of curriculum for CPA Canada since its inception. His publications for CPA Canada include IF1, IntermediateFinancial Reporting 1; IF2, Intermediate Financial Reporting 2; and AFR, Advanced FinancialReporting. Mr. Fisher previously co-led the development of the finance elective for the CPA Professional Education Program.

Mr. Fisher was associated with the Certified General Accountants for more than 15 years in several roles, including authoring the final exams for CGA Canada’s Financial Accounting 3 course (Financial Accounting: Liabilities & Equities). Other publications for CGA Canada include the domestic and international versions of Financial Accounting: Assets (FA2), Financial Accounting: Consolidations and Advanced Issues (FA4), and Corporate Finance Fundamentals (FN1).