Instructor

Tony Dimnik is a top-ranked professor at some of the best business schools in the world and one of the most respected management educators in Canada. He is an authority on strategic control systems and the relationship between capital budgeting and strategy and he has contributed to the understanding and practice of Activity Based Costing, Open Book Management and the Balanced Scorecard.

Professor Dimnik’s expertise is making complicated accounting and finance concepts and tools relevant and understandable to people throughout an organization.

During a three-year tenure as Director of the Queen’s National Executive MBA Program, his team tripled enrolment, increased tuition by 30% and achieved significant improvements on every measure of program quality.

He has served as the chair of the audit committees of several companies and often speaks to professional finance organizations. He is currently the president of Vednost Inc., a company devoted to the teaching of accounting and finance.

After obtaining a diploma in radio arts from the Lethbridge Community College, he worked in media for ten years as a copy writer, salesperson, sales manager and on-air personality before returning to university for an undergraduate degree at the University of Regina and a Ph.D. in accounting at the Ivey School of Business (University of Western Ontario).

He has worked with organizations such as Microsoft, Financial Executives International, Rio Tinto, Alcan, Goldcorp, Clarity, Shoppers Drug Mart, BCE, VIA Rail, Canada Post, Royal Bank, Johnson & Johnson, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Campbell Soup, CN, Canadian Forces College, WCB-Alberta, Cirque du Soleil, Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, Lilydale Foods, and PPX (Performance and Planning Exchange).