Gerald Trites

Editor in Chief

Jerry is a CPA with a history of editing, writing and publishing. Most recently he served as Managing Editor of The Antigonish Review - a literary journal with international circulation. He also worked as a partner in KPMG, and as a Professor of Accounting and Information Systems at a Canadian university, where he served as Director of the Schwartz School of Business. He also served for twelve years as Director of XBRL Canada. He has published twelve books and numerous articles and papers. As a Research Associate for the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, he led the development of several sections of the CICA Handbook, the source of Canadian accounting and auditing standards and he served as chair of he Auditing Standards Board. He also served the CICA as Assistant Director of Education, where he had responsibility for administering and managing the Uniform Final Examinations for Chartered Accountants.