J. Morrison McInnes

About J. Morrison McInnes

Morris McInnes is Professor of Accounting and Associate Dean, Dean for Academic Affairs at the Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. He has in addition been teaching for 30 years at the Sloan School of Management, MIT, ten years on the full time faculty as head of the accounting area, and then as a visiting professor. He is a visiting professor at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. He has taught at the Harvard Business School and at other universities, including the University of Manchester in the UK, where he was a tenured member of faculty and Director of the PhD Program at the Manchester Business School. His teaching specializes in corporate financial reporting and analysis, corporate financial planning and control, and multinational financial analysis and control, primarily at the graduate and executive levels. His undergraduate degree is in physics, from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and his MBA and doctorate degrees are from the Harvard Business School.

He is engaged in research on the design of financial planning and budgetary control systems in large corporate organizations. His work has been published in several academic and professional journals, including The CPA Journal, Accounting, Organizations and Society, The Accounting Review, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Certified Accountant, and Journal of Management Studies. He has lectured and consulted on corporate financial strategy and control in the United States and in several other countries, including Argentina, Bahrain, China, Canada, India, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain and the United Kingdom. In addition to academia, Dr. McInnes has held several positions as a financial executive in industry, and he has been a member of the boards of several companies in Britain, the United States and elsewhere. His executive experience has included buying and selling companies and raising capital in the London, New York and Middle East financial markets. He ran a financial service business that had more than 300 employees and $6 million in annual earnings. And he was responsible for managing the corporate budgeting, management reporting, treasury, and financial accounting and reporting functions in several companies. He is a past president of the Boston Chapter and is still active in the activities of Financial Executives International, the preeminent professional association for corporate finance in the United States and around the world. Dr. McInnes has expertise and consults in the areas of corporate financial management and the design of management control systems, with particular attention to linking performance measures and managerial incentives to corporate strategy.

Employment History

• Enterprise Risk Management Association
• Research Fellow

• Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University
• Associate Dean, Dean for Academic Affairs

• University of Maastricht
• Visiting Professor

• Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University
• Professor of Accounting

• MIT Sloan School of Management
• Visiting Professor

• Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University
• Director of Graduate Programs in Accounting

• Boston Accounting Research Colloquium
• Chairman of the Organizing Committee

• Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University
• Chairperson of the Accounting Department

• Harvard Business School
• Visiting Professor

• Suffolk University
• Chairperson of the Accounting Department

• College of Management, UMass-Boston
• Associate Professor of Accounting

• MIT Sloan School of Management
• Head of the Accounting Group

• MIT Sloan School of Management
• Senior Lecturer in Management Science

• Alghanim Industries, S.A.
• Financial Vice President and CFO

• Intertext Group, Limited
• Board member

• Barker & Dobson, Limited
• Group Finance Director and CFO

• Manchester Business School
• Director of the Doctoral Program

• Manchester Business School
• Senior Lecturer in Management Control

• Cameron, Inc.
• Assistant Corporate Controller

• Harvard Business School
• Research Assistant

• Kelvinside Academy
• Acting Head Science Master

• Ferranti, Limited
• Research Physicist

Education

• DBA, Harvard Business School
• MBA, Harvard Business School
• BSc, University of St. Andrews

Awards & Honors

• 2005 -
• 2000 -
• 1998 -