Digital Certificate in Predictive Analytics for CPAs

Adjunct Professor, School of Accounting and Finance | Course Instructor 

Will brings over 13 years of consulting experience gained through working in San Francisco, New York, and Toronto. Will has provided clients in the Americas, Europe, and AsiaPac with cybersecurity, data analytics, privacy security, and process optimization advisory services. Most recently, Will has worked for a multinational manufacturer in building predictive analytics around the risk management program.

Outside of work, Will invested his time as an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo’s School of Accounting and Finance. Will graduated from the University of Waterloo’s Accounting and Financial Management, and MAcc programs.

Bo Wang is vice-president, Tax & Treasury, at Cineplex Entertainment. He has been with Cineplex since 2013, where he has held various successive financial roles. Wang currently oversees the treasury and tax functions at Cineplex and leads the Automation Centre of Excellence – focused on utilizing robotic process automation (RPA), machine learning, and predictive analytics to drive process optimization and deliver data-driven insights.

Wang has acted as an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo’s School of Accounting and Finance. He is also a graduate from the University of Waterloo’s Accounting and Financial Management, and Master of Accounting (MAcc) programs.

Associate Professor, School of Accounting and Finance | Course Author

Theo is the PwC Chair and Associate Professor at SAF. His teaching and research focus is on data analytics and emerging technologies. His research has been published in The Accounting Review, JMIS, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Information Systems, Information & Management, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, IJAIS, and Accounting Horizons.

Prof. Stratopoulos has authored numerous articles and open-source texts on data analytics and blockchain (see SSRN). He is a member of the CPA Canada - Audit Data Analytics committee and senior editor for the Journal of information Systems.

Stan Laiken Teaching Fellow, School of Accounting and Finance | Course Author

Nancy Vanden Bosch is the Stan Laiken Teaching Fellow at the School of Accounting and Finance (SAF). She is also Associate Director, Education for the joint SAF-CPA Ontario Centre for Performance Management Research and Education. Nancy has a B.A. and MAcc from the University of Waterloo.

Prior to returning to Waterloo as a faculty member, she spent 15 years with Deloitte Consulting, the last five of those years as a partner in the firm’s Finance and Performance consulting practice.