Professor Paul Kalyta

Friday, January 29, at 4:00p.m. in Bronfman 425

Paul Kalyta is Assistant Professor of accounting at Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. His works on corporate governance and financial reporting received two best paper awards by the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada in 2007-2008 and were published in leading academic business journals, such as The Accounting Review, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy.

In his current research and teaching activities, Prof. Kalyta places a major emphasis on the development and advancement of social and environmental accounting—an emerging field of accounting science and practice that purports to quantify, measure, analyze and communicate the socioenvironmental impact of business operations. Although socioenviromental reporting has already gained considerable attention of policymakers overseas (Australia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands have all implemented various regulations that mandate businesses to report publicly on how their activities affect environmental health), it remains virtually unnoticed and unknown in North America.

Among Prof. Kalyta’s ongoing research projects is a study of the impact of environmental disclosure on actual environmental health in the five countries that mandate such disclosure. Prof. Kalyta is also working on the development of an undergraduate course in socioenvironmental reporting—one of the first in North America.