Salterio, Steven

Steve Salterio (B. Comm. (Mt. A.), Ph.D. (Michigan) FCA). Steve is a Professor of Business and the PricewaterhouseCoopers/Tom O’Neill Faculty Research Fellow in Accounting at the Queen’s School of Business. He also is the Director of the CA-Queen’s Centre for Governance. His research investigates corporate governance including the role of the audit committee and external auditor; negotiations between auditors and client management; and judgmental effects of performance measures. Steve is an editorial board member at Contemporary Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory and Behavioral Research in Accounting among others. He has published articles in Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Organizations and Society, and other journals. He has co-authored an auditing and assurance textbook Auditing:  Assurance and Risk with Robert Knechel and Brian Ballou. His research has received extensive external funding from government granting agencies (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) and industry (CICA, CAAA, CGA, KPMG etc). He is a chartered accountant who is active in professional accounting organizations in Canada, acts as a consultant to large and mid-size public accounting firms on audit methodology and presents workshops to directors on governance and control. Currently he is in the 19th year of exile from the Maritimes.