Sylvain Durocher

Professor Sylvain Durocher has a M.Sc. in Accounting and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from UQAM. His doctoral thesis examined the involvement of financial statement users in the setting of Canadian accounting standards. He is a member of the Order of Chartered Professional Accountants of Quebec and of the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants. Before beginning his academic career in 1988, he was an auditor in an accounting firm. He joined the Telfer School of Management in 2006.

Professor Durocher has presented his research at conferences in Canada and abroad, including the annual conferences of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association and the European Accounting Association, and the Alternative Perspectives in Accounting Research and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting conferences. Also interested in university teaching methods, Professor Durocher has co-authored intermediate university accounting texts and has written articles on approaches to teaching accounting. He received the Professor of the Year award from the Francophone MBA class of 2007.

Professor Durocher's work deals with accounting standard-setting, which he studies in the perspective of organizational theory and organizational behaviour theory. He is particularly interested in stakeholder participation in standard setting and legitimacy management in standard-setting organizations. He also draws on sociological approaches to study diverse accounting phenomena. His work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, such as Accounting, Organizations and SocietyEuropean Accounting Revue; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Qualitative Research in Accounting Management; Accounting Perspectives; and Comptabilité, Contrôle, Audit.

Books

• Gosselin, J., Durocher, S., Bigras, D., Michaud, P., McMahon, D., Pérusse, D. and Lacombe, N. Comptabilité intermédiaire - Recueil de solutions commentées . St-Laurent, QC, Canada: Chenelière Education, 2017.
• Gosselin, J., Durocher, S., Bigras, D., Michaud, P., McMahon, D., Pérusse, D. and Lacombe, N. Comptabilité intermédiaire - Questions, exercices, problèmes et cas . St-Laurent, QC, Canada: Chenelière Education, 2017.
• Gosselin, J., Durocher, S., Bigras, D., Michaud, P., McMahon, D., Pérusse, D. and Lacombe, N. Comptabilité intermédiaire - Analyse théorique et pratique. St-Laurent, QC, Canada: Chenelière Education, 2017.
• Gosselin, J., Bigras, D., Pérusse, D., Durocher, S., Lacombe, N. and McMahon, D. Comptabilité intermédiaire - Recueil de solutions commentées. St-Laurent, QC, Canada: Chenelière Education, 2013.
• Gosselin, J., Bigras, D., Pérusse, D., Durocher, S., Lacombe, N. and McMahon, D. Comptabilité intermédiaire - Questions, exercices, problèmes et cas. St-Laurent, QC, Canada: Chenelière Education, 2013.
• Gosselin, J., Bigras, D., Pérusse, D., Durocher, S., Lacombe, N. and McMahon, D. Comptabilité intermédiaire - Analyse théorique et pratique. St-Laurent, QC, Canada: Chenelière Education, 2013.