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Dr. Aida Sy

Dr. Aida Sy

Dr. Aida Sy

Assistant Professor of Accounting

 

Education:

  • BA Equivalent, ENSPTT, Paris, 1988, Accounting & Management
  • BA, University of Paris IX Dauphine, 1993, Economics
  • MS, University of Paris IX Dauphine, 1994, Economics
  • Ph.D. (1st Class Honors), University of Paris-I Pantheon-Sorbonne, 2002, Economics w/ Specialization in Accounting

Contact Information:

Courses Taught/Teaching

  • ACCT 201: Principles of Accounting I
  • ACCT 202: Principles of Accounting II

These courses may not reflect what is being taught this semester. For current information visit the course catalog online.

 

Refereed Journal Articles:

 “Invisible Influence, Tangible Trap: The Clerical Conundrum”  (with Ann Fearfull, Chris Carter, Tony Tinker), Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol. 19, issue 8, November 2008

“Sarbanes-Oxley: Endangered Specie?” Special Issue of Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol. 19, issue 7, November 2008

“Accounting for Global Warming” Special Issue of Critical Perspectives on Accounting Vol. 19, issue 4, May 2008

"Bury Pacioli in Africa: A bookkeeper's reification of Accountancy" (with Tony Tinker) Abacus, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2006, pp.105-127

"Resurrecting the Social Pacioli: Ethics, Gender, and other Silences", International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation, Vol.2, No. 4, 2005, pp. 441-449

"Archival Research and the Lost Worlds of Accounting" (with Tony Tinker) Accounting History, 3, 2005, pp. 47-64

"Making Critical Accounting Critical" (with Tony Tinker) INFOCUS, Accounting History & Critical Accounting, vol., number 2, Dec. 2004

 

Chapters in Books:

"Critical Accounting: A brief Social History" (with Tony Tinker) Blackwell Encyclopedia on Accounting, pp.147-52 (ed. Colin Club) (Oxford: UK, 2005)

 

Professional Honors and Prizes:

My doctorate at the Sorbonne was awarded with "felicitations" (the highest honors) and additionally, is to be published in the six major research centers in France (a distinction earned by only 2-3% of graduates from the Sorbonne).

Research Fellow, University of Wollongong, South Australia, 2006 .

Research Fellow, St. Andrews University, Scotland, UK, 2005.

Visiting Scholar Prize, University of Istanbul, 2005.

Research Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, UK, 2004.

 

 

Homepage:

http://home.manhattan.edu/~aida.sy/