Michael Maier, PhD, CPA, CGA

Contact

Associate Professor, Alberta School of Business - Department of Accounting and Business Analytics

Email: msmaier@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 248-1275
Address: 2-30 Business Building
11203 Saskatchewan Drive NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 2R6

Associate Dean MBA, Alberta School of Business - MBA Office

Email: msmaier@ualberta.ca

Overview

About

Education:

PhD in Business Administration - University of Iowa
BCom with Distinction - University of Alberta

Awards:

2015 Mackenzie MBA Teaching Excellence Award
2010 Mackenzie MBA Teaching Excellence Award

Professional Designations:

Member of Chartered Professional Accountants of Alberta (CPA)
Institute for Corporate Directors, Director (ICD.D)

Research

Research Interests

Experimental Economics
Behavioral Finance
Accounting Regulation
Fair-Value Accounting
The Use of Social Capital in Lending Decisions

Teaching

Teaching Interests

Financial Accounting
Financial Statement Analysis
Valuation

Courses

ACCTG 820 - Financial Accounting

Reporting of financial results of operations and financial positions to investors and managers; the use of accounting information for decision making. Restricted to Executive MBA students only.

Fall Term 2023

BUS 855 - International Study Tour

A week-long intensive course. Understanding the challenges facing local companies in their environment, for example, Asia or Eastern Europe. An on-site visit to the location is included. Restricted to Executive MBA students only.

Winter Term 2024

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Scholarly Activities

Research - CGA Alberta Research Grant ($20,000)

2011 to 2012

Awarded to support accounting research.

Research - Publications

The cost of transfusing a unit of red blood cells: a costing model for Canadian hospital use. (2017). Vox Sanguinis ISBT Science Series, Vol 12 (3), June: 375-380. (with O. Lagerquist, D. Poseluzny, G. Werstiuk, J. Slomp, S. Nahirniak and G. Clarke)

Simple Agents, Intelligent Markets. (2017). Computational Economics, Vol 49 (4), April: 653-675. (with Karim Jamal and Shyam Sunder)

Environmental Liabilities and the Move to IFRS for Canadian Resource Companies: Discount Rates and Diversity in Practice. (2017). Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal (with Giovanna Michelon and Thomas Schneider)

Public Information Precision and Coordination Failure: An Experiment. (2016). Journal of Accounting Research, Vol 54 (3), September: 941-986. (with Sanjay Banerjee)

Cognition in Spatial Dispersion Games. (2005) in Rami Zwick and Amnon Rapoport (Editors) Experimental Business Research, Volume III: Marketing, Accounting and Cognitive Perspectives, Kluwer, Nowell, MA. (with Andreas Blume and Douglas V. DeJong)

Enforced Standards Versus Evolution by General Acceptance: A Comparative Study of E-Commerce Privacy Disclosure and Practice in The US and UK. (2005). Journal of Accounting Research Vol 43 ( I), March: 73-96. (with Karim Jamal and Shyam Sunder)

Regulation and The Marketplace. (2004). Regulation Magazine. Vol 26 (4), Winter Issue. Published by The Cato Institute, Washington, D.C: January, pp 38·41 . (with Karim lamal and Shyam Sunder)

Privacy in E-Commerce: Development of Reporting Standards, Disclosure and Assurance Services in an Unregulated Market. (2003). Journal of Accounting Research, May. Vol 41 (2): 285-309. (with Karim Jamal and Shyam Sunder)

Research - SSHRC Standard Research Grant ($58,662)

2011 to 2015

"Does fair value accounting discipline markets or increase volatility and destabilize markets” Principal Investigator: Michael Maier Co-Applicants: Karim Jamal, Thomas Schneider

Teaching - University of Alberta TLEF Award ($50,000)

2017 to 2019

Awarded by the University of Alberta Center for Teaching and Learning to support innovative teaching methodologies. Co-applicant: Emily Block