Professor Wayne Irvine teaches accounting as a senior teacher. From 1992 to 1995, he was a full-time instructor at the Haskayne School of Business, and in January 2007, he returned to the faculty full-time.

Wayne graduated from the University of Calgary with a BComm in 1980 and went on to earn his Chartered Accountant (CA) designation in 1983, his FCA/FCPA designation in 2018, and his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charter in 2004. He spent 12 years at Price Waterhouse, where he worked in the audit department, as an audit senior manager, and as the administrator of the Calgary office’s continuing education and UFE training program.

Professor Irvine teaches undergraduate and doctoral students in financial management and auditing. He also teaches financial literacy and director education courses for our executive education department.

Wayne is currently the co-author of Canada’s most commonly used introductory accounting textbook and has previously written a number of professional exam cases.

He’s also co-authored the Canadian version of a US accounting textbook and secured support from the Royal Bank to create an Internet-based accounting course.

Wayne has earned several teaching awards from the University of Calgary Student Union, his Dean, Haskayne student clubs, the CPA Education Foundation, and the CPA Western School of Business, to name a few.