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Gary Spraakman

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School of Administrative Studies

Professor Emeritus

Office: Atkinson College, 268C
Ext: 22155 Email: garys@yorku.ca
Primary website: http://www.yorku.ca/garys


Gary Spraakman has greatly enjoyed teaching management accounting at Atkinson since 1991. His teaching has benefited from management positions he had previously held with Alberta Social Services and Molsons. He was also a senior consultant with Coopers and Lybrand.

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In 2001 he was recipient of Akinson’s teaching excellence award, which is the faculty’s major teaching award, and in 2003-2004 he was nominated for the annual Seymour Schulich award for teaching excellence, MBA/IMBA section. He is the author or co-author of two accounting textbooks. His teaching also benefits from his active research program on management accounting change, in particular the impact of information technology on management accounting. Recently, his research has been published in Accounting, Business and Financial History, Journal of Management History, Critical Perspectives in Accounting, and Journal of Management Accounting Research. He is on the editorial board of two journals, Canadian Accounting Perspectives and the Journal of Accounting Case Research. He spent his 2004-2005 sabbatical year doing research at the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives in Winnipeg and Deakin University (School of Accounting, Economics and Finance) in Melbourne Australia. In addition, he has been a frequent recipient of York University’s annual merit award and he received a certificate of appreciation award in 2002 from the Ontario Ministry of Enterprise, Opportunity, and Innovation for his contribution to the Ministry’s biotechnology convergence and network cluster team.

Degrees

PhD, Concordia University
MA, York University
MBA, University of Alberta
BCom, University of Alberta
CMA,

Research Interests

Accounting , Management Accounting Change, The Impact of Information Technology on Management Accounting, Accounting