Bill Buckwold has extensive experience in academic and professional tax education. A Chartered Professional Accountant, Chartered Accountant and graduate of the University of Western Ontario’s School of Business Administration, with cross-studies at the Faculty of Law, he currently is a member of the Faculty of Business at the University of Victoria. He has lectured extensively across Canada for various provincial Institutes of Chartered Accountants, the Canadian Society of Management Accountants, the Banff School of Advanced Management, and the Bar Admission program of the Law Society of Manitoba. Before joining the academic community on a full-time basis, he was self-employed, providing tax consulting services to accounting and legal firms. From 1983 to 1986, Professor Buckwold served as a governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation. He has received numerous awards, including the University of Manitoba’s prestigious Olive Beatrice Stanton Award for Excellence in teaching and the Board of Advisors Distinguished Educator Award at the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Business. Professor Buckwold has served as a member of the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Manitoba and as a member of the Professional Development Committee of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Joan A. Kitunen, FCPA, FCA, is a member of the CPA Canada and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. She is a member of the Accounting Faculty at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. She designs, coordinates, and teaches taxation courses offered in the Accounting Specialist program in the BCom., the MMPA (Master of Management and Professional Accounting) program, as well as in the MBA program. She has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Roger Martin Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2011 she was named a Rotman Teaching Fellow. In the current year, she received the CICA Award for Excellence in Income Tax Practice and Education for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession and the Canadian Tax Community. Prior to joining the Faculty of at the University of Toronto, Kitunen was a Tax Partner at Deloitte. Kitunen is the Co-Director of the CA/Rotman Centre for Innovation in Accounting Education (2004-present), Coordinator of the taxation segment of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario School of Accountancy (1999-present), a member of the CICA Tax Courses Committee (2003-2012), and a member of the CICA Tax Education Tax Force (2008-2013).
