Julia Scott

Title: 
Senior Faculty Lecturer (Retired), Accounting
Julia Scott
Contact Information
Phone: 
514-398-4400 Ext 04590
Email address: 
julia.scott [at] mcgill.ca
Degree(s): 

MBA, Finance and Entrepreneurial Studies, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada
BA, Business Administration, Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Biography: 

Julia Scott FCPA, CFA, MBA a Senior Faculty Lecturer in Accounting joined McGill University in 2000. As Director of the GCPA (Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting) Program, the program for students pursuing their CPA designation, from 2010-2020 Julia oversaw the transition in accounting education from three professional designations to the CPA. She served as a member of the Ordre of CPAs of Quebec Comité des programmes de formation professionnelle during that period.  Julia teaches Advanced Financial Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis in the B Com program, various courses in the GCPA program, and in the Mini MBA in the McGill Executive Institute. She has been teaching for more than 30 years at the university level both at McGill and previously at Bishop’s University.

Julia is the author of numerous textbook supplements; Test banks, Instructor’s Manuals, On-line Learning Centres; for texts in Introductory and Advanced Financial Accounting.

An active member of the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute Julia is a consultant to the Curriculum and Education area in the development of on-line materials for candidate programs and was a grader of CFA exams for many years.

Prior to teaching, Julia worked in Toronto with the Toronto Dominion Bank and obtained her CA (CPA) with Ernst & Young (Clarkson Gordon).

Taught previously at: 

Bishop's  University

Selected publications: 

 

"Men's and Women's Investment Practices", Julia Scott and Steve Harvey. Canadian Investment Review, Summer 1997. Reprinted in “The Advisor’s Guide to Financial Research” Maclean Hunter Financial Media supplement to Advisor’s Edge, November 1999.

"A Larger Tax Shield", J. Scott, L. Thorne. CGA Magazine, April 1989.

Books and Edited Volumes

Contributor to 6th edition of Financial Accounting, A User Perspective Hoskins, Fizzell, Cherry. Wiley 2010.
Author of numerous textbook supplements; Test banks, Instructor’s Manuals, Online Learning Centres, for texts in Introductory and Advanced Financial Accounting.

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