Dr. Karim Jamal, CA, is Chartered Accountants' Distinguished Chair in Accounting, and a professor at the University of Alberta School of Business. He has a Fellowship at the Institute for United States Policy Studies. He is a professor of Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Management Control, Accounting Theory and Auditing, as well as a few MBA courses. Dr. Karim is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta (ICAA), American Accounting Association (AAA), and the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA). Jamal has a BComm (Hons) from the University of Manitoba, an MSc from the University of British Columbia and a PhD (Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting), from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota in 1991. His th