Anne Fortin (born 1957) is an American/Canadian accounting academic and Professor of

Accounting Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial and non financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations. Accounting, which has been called the "languag ...

at the

Université du Québec à Montréal The Université du Québec à Montréal (English: University of Quebec in Montreal), also known as UQAM, is a French-language public university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québe ...

. She is known for her study on "Users' participation in the accounting standard-setting process."Jorissen, Ann, et al. "Formal participation in the IASB's due process of standard setting: a multi-issue/multi-period analysis." ''European Accounting Review'' 21.4 (2012): 693-729. Fortin received her Ph.D. from the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

in 1983. She is an active researcher on accounting theory. Her areas of research include issues related to ethics and social responsibility of accounting; the development of generic competencies for accounting students; and professional judgment.

Selected publications

Articles, a selection: * Fortin, Anne. "The 1947 French Accounting Plan: Origins and Influences on Subsequent Practice." ''The Accounting Historians Journal'' (1991): 1-25. * Durocher, Sylvain, Anne Fortin, and Louise Côté. "Users' participation in the accounting standard-setting process: a theory-building study." ''Accounting, Organizations and Society'' 32.1 (2007): 29–59. * Fortin, Anne, and Michele Legault. "Development of generic competencies: Impact of a mixed teaching approach on students' perceptions." ''Accounting Education: an international journal'' 19.1-2 (2010): 93–122.

References

External links

UQAM home page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fortin, Anne 1957 births Living people Business educators Accounting academics University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Academic staff of the Université du Québec à Montréal