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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Beam, Robert E.
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Description area
Dates of existence
[ca. 1959]
History
Robert E. Beam graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1959 with a Honours Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration. He received his Chartered Accountant designation from the Ontario Institute in 1962. Robert began his career at Ryerson in 1964 as a member of the instructional staff in the Department of Business Administration. In 1967 he was the Assistant Chairman of the department, resigning that position in 1968 to return to full time teaching. From 1971 until 1974 he was a course co-ordinator as well as an instructor. He left Ryerson in 1982. From 1972 until 1988 he was the Co-ordinator of the Tax section of the School of Accountancy, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario and has been associated with Ernst & Young Chartered Accountants. Robert Beam is a Professor Emeritus from the School of Accountancy at the University of Waterloo. In 2002 he became the first recipient of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants Award for Excellence in Tax Practice and Education. He has also co-authored many books and had articles printed in the Canadian Tax Journal.