Professional Accounting Centre

Directors' Message

The creation of the Professional Accounting Centre comes at an opportune moment as pressures mount for the development of defensible, globalized standards, and for greater integrity, accuracy, clarity, and judgement in their application.

Tomorrow’s professional accountants will require a new set of knowledge and skills to function in highly competitive, globalized business environments. To succeed, they must understand the challenges facing businesses and the solutions available, and they must be able to provide effective leadership to arrive at the optimal resolutions expected.

The Professional Accounting Centre at the University of Toronto Mississauga is uniquely positioned to deliver positively on these developments. Our successful Master of Management & Professional Accounting (MMPA) program has an internationally respected reputation, built on a foundation of highly collaborative faculty with global reach, proven research ability, and significant contributions to the accounting profession. Our Master of Forensic Accounting (MFAcc) featuring ten dedicated courses, nine of which are delivered online, is the most comprehensive and innovative program of its type. Combined with our B.Com. (Accounting Specialist Stream) students, PAC is enhancing an exceptional pool of accounting professionals and setting a worldwide standard for others to match.

Dushyant Vyas, Associate Director, Professional Accounting Centre

Dushyant Vyas, Director, Professional Accounting Centre

Dushyantkumar Vyas is an Associate Professor of Accounting in at the University of Toronto Mississauga, with a cross-appointment to the Accounting area at Rotman School of Management and the Institute for Management and Innovation. Dushyant has a Ph.D. in accounting from University of Toronto and a Masters in Finance from Queen’s University. Dushyant’s research focuses on financial distress and insolvency, accounting for financial institutions, accounting issues pertaining to the recent financial crisis, financial statement analysis and valuation, private company accounting, information intermediaries, and international issues in finance and accounting. His research has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, The Accounting Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Science, and Journal of Financial Stability, and has been featured in popular press outlets such as The Globe and Mail, The Economist, Financial Times, The Times (London), and Hindustan Times. Dushyant has presented his research at various international conferences and currently has numerous concurrent projects in the areas of financial distress and debt contracting. Dushyant currently serves as an editor for Contemporary Accounting Research and is an editorial board member at The Accounting Review.