Anthony Scilipoti

CMAC Member and President and CEO at Veritas Investment Research Corporation

Speaker

Anthony and his partners founded Veritas Investment Research in 2000. He is a Fellow Chartered Public Accountant, a Fellow Chartered Accountant, a Certified Public Accountant (Illinois) and a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He is a licensed portfolio manager. Anthony has been very active in accounting standard-setting since 2003.

Anthony also has served as a member of the Ontario Securities Commission's Continuous Disclosure Advisory Committee since 2006. In 2019, Anthony was appointed to the Board of the Capital Markets Advisory Committee of the International Accounting Standards Board. He is a former member of the Canadian Accounting Standards Board, the CICA's Emerging Issues Committee, and was the Chair of CPA Canada's Users Advisory Committee.

Anthony began teaching in 1997 as a part-time accounting instructor at York University's Schulich School of Business in the MBA and BBA Programs. He was nominated for the Teaching Excellence Award in 1997 and 2003.

Several of Anthony’s cases have been published in Cases in Financial Accounting: A Principles Based Approach, First Edition, 2006, and In Search of the “Right” Numbers – an Ivey Case that profiles Bombardier Inc. in 2001, published July 2020. While he no longer teaches full courses, Anthony guest lectures at the undergraduate and graduate levels and runs custom training programs on financial statement analysis and business valuation for Canadian and U.S. analysts and portfolio managers, regulators, accountants, as well as financial and non-financial professionals.

As an advocate for investors’ rights, Anthony is a frequent media commentator and public speaker on financial accounting and disclosure issues and is considered an industry expert in special situations related to accounting. Anthony has also served as an expert witness for securities regulators and other civil disputes.