Biography

Kenneth Fox is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting. Kenneth completed his PhD at the Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta after working in public practice and in industry. In addition to working throughout Canada and the USA, Kenneth’s work has taken him to Central Asia and the West Indies.

Kenneth is a member of CPA Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors. In addition, Kenneth is a Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Certified Sustainability Professional and has the Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) Accreditation of the Value Reporting Foundation, and the Living Future Accreditation (LFA) of the International Living Future Institute.

Kenneth’s research focusses on the regulation, production, circulation, and use of accounting information in financial markets. This includes securities market disclosure, non-GAAP earnings measures, and sustainability reporting. Kenneth is also interested in and has published research on undergraduate and graduate accounting education.

Using qualitative methodologies to conduct social theory-based research, Kenneth has published research in journals such as Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Accounting Education, Resources Policy Journal, Business Horizons, Sustainability Accounting, Policy, and Management Journal, and Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal.

Research

Fox, K.A. and Wilson, Grant A., 2023, Projecting complex categories: biodynamic wine producers' online identity, Qualitative Market Research: An international journal (Forthcoming).

Sheehan, N.T., Vaidyanathan, G., Fox, K. A., and Klassen, M., 2023, Making the invisible visible: overcoming barriers to ESG performance with an ESG Mindset Model, Business Horizons, 66 (2), pp.265 - 276.

Sheehan, N.T., Fox, K.A., Klassen, M., and Vaidyanathan, G., 2022, Threshold concepts and ESG performance: Teaching accounting students reconceptualized fundamentals to drive future ESG advocacy, Accounting Education, pp. 1-25.

Gamble, E.N., Muñoz, P., and Fox, K.A, 2022, Is it time to clean up US tax-exempt nonprofit reporting?, Sustainability Accounting, Policy and Management Journal. 14(1), pp. 1-20 

Fox, K.A*. and Lefsrud, L.M, 2021. The ecology of regulatory change: The Securities and Exchange Commission’s modernization of oil and gas reserves reporting. Resources Policy Journal. Vol 72 102072

Fox, K.A., 2018. The manufacture of the academic accountant. Critical Perspectives on Accounting. 57, p. 1-20

Fox, K.A., 2017. The usefulness of NI 43-101 technical reports for financial analysts. Resources Policy Journal. 51, p. 225-233

Teaching

COMM 412 – Accounting Theory

COMM 201 – Introduction to Financial Accounting