School of Accounting and Finance Fellowship Honourees

Morley Lemon, PhD, CPA, FCA

W. Morley Lemon is Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo where he was a faculty member for 24 years. He served as Director of the School of Accounting and Finance 1987-1988 and 1998-2002. He obtained his BA from the University of Western Ontario, his MBA from the University if Toronto, and his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Lemon obtained his CA in Ontario. In 1985, he was honoured by that Institute, which elected him a Fellow; in 2003 he received that Institute’s ICAO Award of Outstanding Merit. Professor Lemon received his CPA in Texas.

Professor Lemon was awarded the University of Waterloo Distinguished Teacher Award at the 1998 University of Waterloo convocation. In 2004 he was awarded the L.S. Rosen Outstanding Educator award by the Canadian Academic Accounting Association.

Professor Lemon recently has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas in Austin and at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has been appointed to the boards of Transparency International Canada and The Salvation Army's Grace Health Centre.

Professor Lemon coauthored six previous Canadian editions of Auditing and Other Assurance Services published by Pearson Education Canada. He is also coauthor, with Horngren, Harrison, Norwood, and Johnston of Accounting, Canadian Seventh Edition, published by Pearson Education Canada. He coauthored the six previous Canadian editions of that text. Professor Lemon was co-author , with Harrison, Horngren, Carroll and Lemon of Financial Accounting Canadian Second Edition, published by Pearson Education Canada. . He coauthored the first Canadian edition of that text.

He was a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants’ Assurance Standards Board. He has also served on the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario Council, as well as a number of committees for both bodies. He has chaired and served on a number of committees of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association. Professor Lemon has served on Council and chaired and served on a number of committees of the American Accounting Association.

Professor Lemon has presented lectures and papers at a number of universities and academic and professional conferences and symposia in Canada, the United States and China. He has chaired and organized six audit symposia held at the University of Waterloo. He has served on the editorial board of and reviewed papers for a number of academic journals including The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Issues in Accounting Education, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Advances in Accounting, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and CA Magazine. Professor Lemon has coauthored two monographs and has had papers published in Contemporary Accounting Research, Research on Accounting Ethics, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, The Chartered Accountant in Australia and CA Magazine. He has had a chapter published in Research Opportunities in Internal Auditing and papers published in the following collections: Educating the Profession of Accountancy in the Twenty-First Century, Comparative International Accounting Education Standards, Comparative International Auditing Standards, and The Impact of Inflation on Accounting: A Global View. Professor Lemon served as a judge for CA Magazine’s Walter J. Macdonald Award.

2006 Fellow: Steven Ly