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Harjot Mehmi

Harjot Mehmi

Assistant Professor
DepartmentAccounting
EducationBBA, MBA
OfficeYDI 1066
Phone416-979-5000 ext. 552450
https://www.linkedin.com/in/harjot-s-mehmi (external link) 

Overview

Harjot Mehmi is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Ted Rogers School of Management. His teaching interests are in financial accounting and taxation. His research interests include corporate taxation, individual taxation, financial reporting, and corporate governance. He obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. 

He is currently pursuing an Accounting PhD at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. His PhD dissertation examines environmental and governance factors associated with corporate tax avoidance. His PhD dissertation also includes a bibliometric analysis of the corporate tax avoidance literature.

Select research and professional contributions

Research Publications
Farrar, J., & Mehmi, H. (2024). The Association Between Fairness and Judicial Decision-Making: Evidence from Tax Law. Florida Tax Review, forthcoming.
Research in progress
“Bibliometric, Environmental, and Governance Research on Corporate Tax Avoidance” (Solo-authored dissertation – Dissertation committee: Dr. Jonathan Farrar, Dr. Subhankar Nayak, and Dr. Tao Zeng).
“The Ethics of Tax Adjudication: Initial evidence on the Name-Letter Effect in Judicial Decision-Making” (Co-authored study with Dr. Jonathan Farrar).
“Are Judges Influenced by Dollar Amounts? Evidence from Tax Law” (Co-authored study with Dr. Jonathan Farrar and Dr. Thomas Farrar).
“Does a Criminal Record Bias Judges? Evidence from Tax Law.” (Co-authored study with Dr. Jonathan Farrar, Jayeon Ma, and Brandon Mattalo).
Conference Presentations
"The Ethics of Tax Adjudication: Initial Evidence on the Name-Letter Effect in Judicial Decision-Making," 2024 Ethics Symposium - Centre for Accounting Ethics. University of Waterloo. Toronto, ON, September 2024.
"The Association Between Fairness and Judicial Decision-Making: Evidence from Tax Law," Canadian Law & Economics Association Conference. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, October 2023.

Course code Course title
AFA 300  Intermediate Financial Accounting I