Bill Buckwold has extensive experience in academic and professional tax education. A chartered accountant and graduate of the University of Western Ontario’s School of Business Administration, with cross-studies at the Faculty of Law, he currently is a member of the Faculty of Business at the University of Victoria. He has lectured extensively across Canada for various provincial Institutes of Chartered Accountants, the Canadian Society of Management Accountants, the Banff School of Advanced Management, and the Bar Admission program of the Law Society of Manitoba. Before joining the academic community on a full-time basis, he was self-employed, providing tax consulting services to accounting and legal firms. From 1983 to 1986, Professor Buckwold served as a governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation. He has received numerous awards, including the University of Manitoba’s prestigious Olive Beatrice Stanton Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Board of Advisors Distinguished Educator Award at the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Business. Professor Buckwold has served as a member of the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Manitoba and as a member of the Professional Development Committee of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Joan A. Kitunen, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (FCA), is a member of the Accounting Faculty at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. She is also a member of the Management Faculty at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. She designs, coordinates, and teaches many of the taxation courses offered in the graduate programs, MBA and MMPA (Master of Management and Professional Accounting), and in the undergraduate Commerce programs. She has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards, the most recent being the Rotman Excellence in Teaching Award and the Martin Lang Teaching Excellence award in 2008. Kitunen is the co-director of the ICAO/Rotman Centre for Innovation in Accounting Education; coordinator of the taxation segment of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario School of Accountancy (1999 to present); and the academic representative on the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants Tax Courses Committee. Kitunen was a tax partner at Deloitte, one of Canada’s leading professional services firms, until July 1990 when she joined the faculty at the University of Toronto.