Meet our authors

Bartosz Amerski. We are again pleased to have Bartosz Amerski as contributing author for the Sixteenth Canadian Edition. Bartosz teaches graduate and undergraduate auditing and accounting at York University, where he has received recognition and awards for his excellence in teaching and creating a positive learning environment for his students. Bartosz also teaches in the CPA Ontario's Professional Educational Program (PEP). He has completed a Masters of Laws (LL.M.) at Osgoode Hall Law School and was an audit director with the office of the Auditor General of Ontario. Prior to that, Bartosz worked at Ernst & Young as an external auditor. He is a proud father of two children, Emilia and Nicolas.

Bartosz is the founding author of Auditing: The Art and Science of Assurance Engagements, Canadian Edition textbook.

Al Arens (1935 to 2010), founding author of this textbook, was the PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Accounting Emeritus at Michigan State University. In addition to writing books on auditing, he was a coauthor of computerized accounting supplements and he was actively involved in the continuing education of practitioners with local and regional CPA firms. Al was a past president of the American Accounting Association and a former member of the AICPA Auditing Standards Board. He practiced public accounting with both a local CPA firm and the predecessor firm to Ernst & Young. He received many awards including the AAA Auditing Section Outstanding Educator award, the AICPA Outstanding Educator award, the national Beta Alpha Psi Professor of the Year award, and many teaching and other awards at Michigan State.

Al is the founding author of Auditing: The Art and Science of Assurance Engagements, Canadian Edition textbook.

Louis Beaubien is currently an Associate Professor in the Rowe School of Business in the Faculty of Management, and in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology in the Department of Medicine at Dalhousie University. Dr. Beaubien is also the Academic Director of the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) Atlantic, a university-based seed stage accelerator, which is part of the seven university CDL network founded at the University of Toronto in 2012. From 2008 to 2012, Professor Beaubien was on the faculty of the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary's University, where he received the University Charter Teacher of the Year award.

Professor Beaubien is a Chartered Professional Accountant and a member of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) and the American Accounting Association (AAA). Dr. Beaubien received his Ph.D. from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Prior to graduate school he gained professional experience in the financial services and consulting industry. Dr. Beaubien's research has covered areas including accounting in financial services, the co-operative sector, and healthcare.

Dr.Beaubien is one of the authors of Managerial Accounting, Canadian Edition and Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, Canadian Edition textbooks.

Greg Berberich, CPA, CA, PhD, is the Director of the Masters of Accounting program in the School of Accounting and Finance at the University of Waterloo, where he has been a Lecturer since 2011. Before that, he was a faculty member at Wilfrid Laurier University for nine years. He obtained his BMath and PhD from the University of Waterloo and completed his CPA and CA in Ontario.

Berberich has taught financial accounting, auditing, and a variety of other courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has presented papers at a variety of academic conferences in Canada and the United States and has served on the editorial board of the journal Issues in Accounting Education.

Berberich was also the Treasurer of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and the Associate Director of Teaching and Learning in Waterloo’s School of Accounting and Finance. He has written a number of cases for use in university courses and professional training programs.

Berberich is one of the authors of Financial Accounting, Canadian Edition textbook.

Karen Wilken Braun recently retired from her role as Professor of Accountancy in the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). Though retired, she continues to teach personal finance classes and workshops to undergraduate students, faculty, and staff. During her time on faculty, Dr. Braun was awarded the “Outstanding Teacher of the Year” 5 times by the vote of undergraduate business students. In 2018, she was named one of Poets & Quants “Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors” in the country and in 2017, she was named “Business Information Professional of the Year” in the category of Education, by Beta Alpha Psi (national level). In 2016, Dr. Braun was awarded the prestigious Bea Sanders/AICPA Teaching Innovation Award for her development of Excel-based active-learning resources for introductory managerial accounting courses. While on the faculty of CWRU, she also served for several years as Beta Alpha Psi adviser and director of the undergraduate accounting program. Prior to her appointment at CWRU, Dr. Braun was on the faculty of the J.M. Tull School of Accounting at the University of Georgia, where she also was the recipient of a student-selected teaching award.

Dr. Braun is a Certified Public Accountant and holds membership in the American Accounting Association (AAA), the Institute of Management Accountants, and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She also holds the Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designation and is a member of the AAA's Management Accounting Section as well as the Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Section. Dr. Braun has held leadership positions with the AAA's Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting (CTLA) including co-chairing the 2015 and 2016 conferences. Dr. Braun's research interests revolve around accounting education, sustainability, corporate responsibility, and lean operations. Dr. Braun's work has been published in Contemporary Accounting Research, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Accounting Education, and Strategic Finance.

Dr. Braun received her Ph from the University of Connecticut and her BA, thema cum laude, from Luther College, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Braun gained public accounting experience while working at Arthur Andersen & Co. and accumulated additional business and management accounting experience as a corporate controller.

Dr. Braun is married and has 2 daughters and 4 stepdaughters. She enjoys traveling, hiking, biking, gardening and skiing, especially when she can share those activities with family or friends.

Dr. Braun is one of the authors of Managerial Accounting, Canadian Edition textbook.

Liang Hsuan Chen, BA, MSEd., MBA, PhD, FCPA, FCGA, is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in Accounting at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and has served as the Associate Dean–Academic (2010–2013) the Director of FAIR-Taiwan (an international recruitment program 2013–2014), and a board member of the Certified General Accountants of Ontario (2005–2011).

Dr. Chen has extensive teaching experience ranging from pre-school to graduate school in Taiwan, the United States, and Canada. She is a dedicated educator who has helped many students and immigrants to transition into accounting careers, and as a result, she has re-ceived a CGA Ontario mentorship award, a CGA Canada fellowship award, and a CGA On-tario UTSC Alumni Award. She was the recipient of the Mandarin Profile Award—Professionals Sector, Fairchild Television in 2011. Her research on international students has won her an international research award (Alice L. Beeman Research Award in Communications and Marketing for Educational Advancement) from the Council for Ad-vancement and Support of Education (CASE) based in Washington DC, in 2007. She was a recipient of the William G. Davis Fellowship Award in Higher Education. Her publications related to international students' choice of Canadian graduate schools and marketing of higher education can be seen in Higher Education, the Canadian Journal of Higher Educa-tion, the International Journal of Educational Advancement, and the Journal of Marketing for Higher Education. She co-authored and adapted a cost management textbook published by Wiley in 2016, and a financial accounting textbook published by Pearson in 2012.

Dr. Chen has also worked in the private sector in Accounting and Marketing functions. She received her BA in English Language and Literature from Soochow University in Taiwan, a Master of Science in Education from the University of Pennsylvania, and obtained an MBA and later a PhD in Higher Education, both from the University of Toronto.

Dr. Chen is one of the authors of Financial Accounting, Canadian Edition textbook.

Sandra Daga, HBA, MEd, CPA (USA), CPA-CA, is an associate professor at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. She has extensive teaching experience over many years, teach-ing introductory accounting to capstone courses. She instructs in the UTSC MaccFin pro-gram, a masters program dedicated to students planning for their CPA and their Certified Financial Analyst designations. She has contributed to the development of several account-ing textbooks and is a speaker and commentator on personal finance.

Ms. Daga was in industry for a number of years, including her careers at PriceWaterhouse-Coopers and at Apple Canada Inc. She obtained her HBA at the University of Waterloo and her Masters of Education at the University of Toronto. She is a board member of several community non-profits. She is a mentor in the CPA program and has taught with CPA On-tario in their professional development programs and courses.

Ms. Daga is one of the authors of Financial Accounting, Canadian Edition textbook.

Srikant M. Datar is the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, Faculty Chair of the Harvard University Innovation Labs, and Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs. He previously served as Senior Associate Dean from 2000 to 2010. A graduate with distinction from the University of Bombay, he received gold medals upon graduation from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. A chartered accountant, he holds two master's degrees and a PhD from Stanford University.

Datar has published his research in leading accounting, marketing, and operations management journals, including The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, and Management Science. He has served as an associate editor and on the editorial board of several journals and has presented his research to corporate executives and academic audiences in North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe. He is a coauthor of three other books: Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Motivating Performance, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads, and Rethinking Graduate Management Education in Latin America.

Cited by his students as a dedicated and innovative teacher, Datar received the George Leland Bach Award for Excellence in the Classroom at Carnegie Mellon University and the Distinguished Teaching Award at Stanford University.

Datar is a member of the board of directors of Novartis A.G., ICF International, T-Mobile US, and Stryker Corporation, and Senior Strategic Advisor to HCL Technologies. He has worked with many organizations, including Apple Computer, Boeing, DuPont, Ford, General Motors, Morgan Stanley, PepsiCo, Visa, and the World Bank. He is a member of the American Accounting Association and the Institute of Management Accountants.

Datar is one of the authors of Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, Canadian Edition textbook.

Kristie Dewald, CPA, CA, MET is a professor in the accounting department at Vancouver Island University's Faculty of Management. She has over 20 years of teaching experience at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and has taught at the University of Alberta, University of Saskatchewan, and University of Victoria. Kristie also teaches for the CPA Professional Education Program (PEP) for the CPA Western School of Business and has been involved with material development for both PEP and CPA Preparatory Courses. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards including the Chartered Professional Accountants Education Teaching Award and the Kouri Berezan Heinrichs Award for CASB Facilitator of the Year (Alberta).

Kristie is one of the authors of Advanced Financial Accounting in Canada textbook.

Randy Elder, who has served as a coauthor of this textbook since the 8th edition, is Dixon Hughes Goodman Professor and Department Head of Accounting and Finance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He teaches undergraduate and graduate auditing courses, and has received several teaching awards. His research focuses on audit quality and current audit firm practices and he served as the team leader for the American Accounting Association Auditing Section PCAOB research synthesis teams on audit confirmations and audit sampling. He has extensive public accounting experience with a large regional CPA firm, frequently teaches continuing education for a large international CPA firm, and is a member of the AICPA.

Professor Elder is the founding author of Auditing: The Art and Science of Assurance Engagements, Canadian Edition textbook.

George Fisher, MBA, CPA, CGA is an instructor at Douglas College. He teaches financial reporting in the College's BBA and Post-Degree programs and facilitates financial reporting courses for the Chartered Professional Accountants' Western School of Business.

Mr. Fisher has been actively involved in the development of curriculum for CPA Canada since its inception. His publications for CPA Canada include IF1, Intermediate Financial Reporting 1; IF2, Intermediate Financial Reporting 2; and AFR, Advanced Financial Reporting. Mr. Fisher previously co-led the development of the finance elective for the CPA Professional Education Program.

Mr. Fisher was associated with the Certified General Accountants for more than 15 years in several roles, including authoring the final exams for CGA Canada's Financial Accounting 3 course (Financial Accounting: Liabilities & Equities). Other publications for CGA Canada include the domestic and international versions of Financial Accounting: Assets (FA2), Financial Accounting: Consolidations and Advanced Issues (FA4), and Corporate Finance Fundamentals (FN1).

Mr. Fisher is one of the authors of Intermediate Accounting, Volumes 1 and 2 textbook.

Chris Hogan joined as a coauthor starting with the 16th edition. Chris is the Russell E. Palmer Endowed Professor of Accounting and Department Chairperson in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. Chris teaches graduate auditing and her research focuses on internal controls and integrated audits, audit firm client portfolios, and the impact of regulation on audit markets. Chris has auditing experience with Price Waterhouse, one of the predecessor firms to PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP. She has served in multiple leadership roles within the American Accounting Association, including serving as President of the Auditing Section and on the Audit Committee of the AAA.

Chris is the founding author of Auditing: The Art and Science of Assurance Engagements, Canadian Edition textbook.

Nathalie Johnstone, FCPA, FCA, MPAcc is an Associate Professor of Accounting and Taxation at the N. Murray Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan. Professor Johnstone holds a Bachelor of Accounting and Master of Professional Accounting from the University of Saskatchewan. She teaches a variety of courses in the accounting program, including advanced accounting and taxation. She has acted as the CPA Western School of Business lead tax facilitator for the CPA PEP and has been involved in material development for CPA PEP. She has won several teaching awards including the University of Saskatchewan Provost Teaching Award, University of Saskatchewan Student Union (USSU) teaching excellence award, 6-time recipient of the ICAA MPAcc Teaching Excellence Award, the ESB Somers Awards for most approachable professor and the Kouri Berezen Heinichs Distinguished Facilitator Award.

Professor Johnstone is one of the authors of Advanced Financial Accounting in Canada textbook.

Joanne C. Jones. This is the fourth Canadian edition to be authored by Joanne C. Jones, who is an associate professor of auditing at York University. Joanne teaches graduate and undergraduate auditing and her research focuses on issues such as professionalism and ethics in accounting, audit practice, and globalization and the diversity of the accounting profession. She also investigates academic ethics and accounting education and has published several instructional audit cases in academic peer-reviewed journals. Joanne is an active reviewer for several academic journals and currently serves as an editor for Issues in Accounting Education and is an associate editor at Accounting Perspectives. Prior to earning her PhD, she worked for several years as an external auditor with KPMG and as the associate director of education with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (now CPA Ontario).

Joanne is the founding author of Auditing: The Art and Science of Assurance Engagements, Canadian Edition textbook.

Robert Kemp, DBA, CPA, is the Ramon W. Breeden, Sr., Research Professor at the McIntire School of Commerce in the University of Virginia. He is a certified public accountant and possesses baccalaureate, master's, and doctorate degrees in business administration. Professor Kemp is an accomplished scholar who conducts research and writing in the theory and practice of contemporary business. He currently is conducting research in the funding of pensions, the management of financial institutions, and corporate finance.

His scholarly works include 70 completed projects, including monographs, articles, cases, research presentations, and working papers. His work is published in, among other places, The Financial Review; The Journal of Financial Research; Advances in Accounting, A Research Journal; Benefits Quarterly; The Journal of Mathematics Applied in Business and Industry; The Journal of Accountancy; The Journal of Commercial Bank Lending; The Journal of Bank Accounting and Auditing; and The Journal of Business Economics.

Professor Kemp is one of the authors of Financial Accounting, Canadian Edition textbook.

Kin Lo, PhD, FCPA, FCA is the CPA Professor in Accounting at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. The CPA Professorship was established by the Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia (CPABC). After receiving a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Calgary, he articled at PricewaterhouseCoopers and subsequently earned his doctorate from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago in 1999. His research has been published in the most important accounting journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, and Journal of Accounting and Economics, and he served as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Accounting and Economics from 2003 to 2011.

Since joining UBC in 1999, Professor Lo has taught extensively in intermediate level financial accounting for undergraduates, as well as master and doctoral-level courses. He has coached numerous winning teams in regional, national, and global case competitions. His outstanding teaching has been recognized by the Killam Teaching Prize. Kin has also been a visiting professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and the University of California at Irvine's Merage School of Business.

Professor Lo is one of the authors of Intermediate Accounting, Volumes 1 and 2 textbook.

Brenda L. Mattison, CMA, has a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in accounting, both from Clemson University. She is currently an Accounting Instructor at Tri-County Technical College in Pendleton, South Carolina. Brenda previously served as Accounting Program Coordinator at TCTC and has prior experience teaching accounting at Robeson Community College, Lumberton, North Carolina; University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, South Carolina; and Rasmussen Business College, Eagan, Minnesota. She also has accounting work experience in retail and manufacturing businesses and is a Certified Management Accountant.

Brenda is a member of the American Accounting Association, Institute of Management Accountants, South Carolina Technical Education Association, and Teachers of Accounting at Two Year Colleges. She is currently serving on the Board of Directors as Vice President of Conference Administration of Teachers of Accounting at Two Year Colleges.

Brenda is one of the authors of Horngren's Accounting, Volumes 1 and 2, Canadian Edition textbook.

Carol A. Meissner is a professor in both Business and Management Studies and the Automotive Business School of Canada at Georgian College in Barrie, Ontario. She teaches in the Accounting Diploma, Automotive Business Diploma, and business degree programs.

Carol has always been a teacher. She started as a part-time college instructor when she completed her first degree and has taught full time since 2005. In 2014, Carol was awarded the Georgian College Board of Governors' Award of Excellence Academic for outstanding contributions to the college and an ongoing commitment to excellence. Her “real world” experience includes car dealership controllership and self-employment as a part-time controller and consultant for a wide variety of businesses.

Carol has broad experience in curriculum development. She has been a curriculum chair, program coordinator, member of several curriculum committees, and has been involved in writing and renewing degree, diploma, and graduate certificate programs.

Carol is one of the authors of Horngren's Accounting, Volumes 1 and 2, Canadian Edition textbook.

Tracie L. Miller-Nobles, CPA, is an associate professor at Austin Community College. She has teaching experience at the community college and university level. Professor Miller-Nobles received her master's degree in accounting from Texas A&M University and is working on her doctoral degree in Adult Education also from Texas A&M University. Her research interest includes financial literacy education, adult learning theories, and online learning. She has public accounting experience with Deloitte Tax LLP.

Professor Miller-Nobles is on the Board of Directors for the American Accounting Association (AAA) as Director-Focusing on Members. She has served in leadership roles for AAA's Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum section and AAA's Two Year College section and was a member of the Pathway's Commission on Accounting Higher Education. Prof. Miller-Nobles is also on the Board of Directors for Teachers of Accounting at Two Year Colleges (TACTYC) as Secretary/Webmaster. She is an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Consumer Financial Education Advocates committee. At the state level, she serves on the Relations with Educational Institutes for the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants (TXCPA).

Professor Miller-Nobles is one of the authors of Horngren's Accounting, Volumes 1 and 2, Canadian Edition textbook.

Grant Mowbray is an instructor in, and the past chair of, the department of financial management at Langara College in Vancouver, BC. Grant is also an adjunct professor at UBC's Sauder School of Business, and a visiting lecturer at SFU's Beedie School of Business. Grant is a CPA and a graduate of the University of British Columbia's Political Science program. His teaching expertise focusses on introductory and intermediate accounting, as well as audit and assurance services.

Prior to entering academia, Grant worked in public practice at Ernst & Young for nearly a decade before moving to Bermuda for ten years to work at Butterfield Bank, where he was Chief Financial Officer (Bermuda).

Grant is one of the authors of Horngren's Accounting, Volumes 1 and 2, Canadian Edition textbook.

Professor Patricia C. O’Brien is the EY Professor at the School of Accounting & Finance, University of Waterloo. Her research, on topics concerning financial analysts, financial reporting standards, and information in capital markets, is published in many of the premier accounting journals. In 2009, the Canadian Academic Accounting Association honored Professor O’Brien with the Haim Falk Award for Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Thought. She currently serves on the Academic Advisory Council to Canada’s Accounting Standards Board. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR), and on the editorial boards of CAR, the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. She holds an A.B. degree cum laude in mathematics from Cornell University, and earned her M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Chicago. Prior to joining Waterloo, Professor O’Brien was a faculty member at the University of Rochester, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, London Business School, and York University. She has held visiting appointments at the Helsinki School of Economics, the University of Chicago, Stanford University, and the University of Amsterdam, as well as in the Office of the Chief Economist of the Ontario Securities Commission.

Professor O’Brien is one of the authors of Financial Accounting Theory textbook.

Madhav V. Rajan is the Robert K. Jaedicke Professor of Accounting at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He is also Professor of Law (by courtesy) at Stanford Law School. From 2010 to 2016, he was Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and head of the MBA program at the Stanford GSB.

Rajan received his undergraduate degree in commerce from the University of Madras, India, and his MS in accounting, MBA, and PhD degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. In 1990, his dissertation won the Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in Economic Theory.

Rajan's primary area of research interest is the economics-based analysis of management accounting issues, especially as they relate to internal control, capital budgeting, quality management, supply chain and performance systems in firms. He has published his research in a variety of leading journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, and Review of Financial Studies. In 2004, he received the Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature award. He is a coauthor of Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Motivating Performance.

Rajan has served as the Departmental Editor for Accounting at Management Science as well as associate editor for both the accounting and operations areas. From 2002 to 2008, Rajan served as an editor of The Accounting Review. Rajan has twice been a plenary speaker at the AAA Management Accounting Conference.

Rajan has received several teaching honors at Wharton and Stanford, including the David W. Hauck Award, the highest undergraduate teaching award at Wharton. He teaches in the flagship Stanford Executive Program and is co-director of Finance and Accounting for the Nonfinancial Executive.He has participated in custom programs for many companies, including Genentech, Hewlett-Packard, and nVidia, and is faculty director for the Infosys Global Leadership Program.

Rajan is a director of Cavium, Inc. and iShares, Inc., a trustee of the iShares Trust, and a member of the C.M. Capital Investment Advisory Board.

Rajan is one of the authors of Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, Canadian Edition textbook.

William Scott received his B. Comm. from Carleton University, and his MBA and Ph.D. from the School of Business, University of Chicago. He is a Fellow of Chartered Professional Accountants Canada. His research has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, and several other academic journals. He has served on the editorial boards of Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, and The Accounting Review; and served a term as Editor of Contemporary Accounting Research. He has taught at Carleton University, University of Chicago, Queen’s University at Kingston, University of British Columbia and University of Waterloo, and is now distinguished Emeritus Professor at University of Waterloo.

Professor Scott is one of the authors of Financial Accounting Theory textbook.

Catherine I. Seguin, MBA, CGA, is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She also acts as Dean’s Designate for academic offences in the Social Sciences. She has written the following books: Understanding Accounting for Not-for-Profit Organizations and Accounting for Not-for-Profit Organizations for Carswell (Thomson-Reuters) and Not-for-Profit Accounting, published by CGA Canada. In the not-for-profit community, she has served as Treasurer on several different boards.

Professor Seguin is one of the authors of Financial Accounting, Canadian Edition textbook.

Jeff Slater has taught at North Shore Community College for 48 years. He has published 12 different texts selling over 2 million copies. Jeff has also worked as a consultant for the federal government. Jeff's teaching philosophy is to keep it simple. Over the years he has been known for his innovative ideas. Jeff received the Nisod Excellence Award for his teaching. He resides in Lexington, Massachusetts, with his wife Shelley and their 2 golden doodles Bernie and Fejjie. Jeff loves what he does and understands that students are his customers that need to be served in a professional manner. Jeff is available at jeffslater@aol.com and promises to get back to any student queries within 24 hours or less.

Jeff is one of the authors of College Accounting: A Practical Approach, Canadian Edition textbook.

C. William (Bill) Thomas is the J. E. Bush Professor of Accounting and a Master Teacher at Baylor University. A Baylor University alumnus, he received both his BBA and MBA there and went on to earn his PhD from The University of Texas at Austin.

With primary interests in the areas of financial accounting and auditing, Bill Thomas has served as the J. E. Bush Professor of Accounting since 1995. He has been a member of the faculty of the Accounting and Business Law Department of the Hankamer School of Business since 1971, and served as chair of the department for 12 years. He has been recognized as an Outstanding Faculty Member of Baylor University as well as a and Distinguished Professor for the Hankamer School of Business. Dr. Thomas has received many awards for outstanding teaching, including the Outstanding Professor in the Executive MBA Programs as well as designation as Master Teacher.

Thomas is the author of textbooks in auditing and financial accounting, as well as many articles in auditing, financial accounting and reporting, taxation, ethics, and accounting education. His scholarly work focuses on the subject of fraud prevention and detection, as well as ethical issues among accountants in public practice. He presently serves as the accounting and auditing editor of Today’s CPA, the journal of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, with a circulation of approximately 28,000.

Thomas is a certified public accountant in Texas. Prior to becoming a professor, Thomas was a practicing accountant with the firms of KPMG, LLP, and BDO Seidman, LLP. He is a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Thomas is one of the authors of Financial Accounting, Canadian Edition textbook.

Wendy M. Tietz is a professor for the Department of Accounting in the College of Business Administration at Kent State University, where she has taught since 2000. She teaches introductory financial and managerial accounting in a variety of formats, including large sections, small sections, and web-based sections. She has received numerous college and university teaching awards while at Kent State University. Most recently she was named the Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year for the College of Business Administration.

Dr. Tietz is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Management Accountant, and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. She is a member of the American Accounting Association (AAA), the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). She has published in Issues in Accounting Education, Accounting Education: An International Journal, and Journal of Accounting & Public Policy. She received the 2014 Bea Sanders/AICPA Innovation in Teaching Award for her accounting educator blog entitled, Accounting in the Headlines. She regularly presents at AAA regional and national meetings. Dr. Tietz is also the co-author of a managerial accounting textbook, Managerial Accounting, with Dr. Karen Braun.

Tietz received her PhD from Kent State University. She received both her MBA and BSA from the University of Akron. She worked in industry for several years, both as a controller for a financial institution and as the operations manager and controller for a recycled plastics manufacturer.

Tietz and her husband, Russ, have two grown sons. In her spare time, she enjoys walking, reading, and exploring new technology. She is passionate about using technology to expand the boundaries of the traditional classroom.

Dr. Tietz is one of the authors of Financial Accounting, Canadian Edition and Managerial Accounting, Canadian Edition textbooks.

Jeffrey Waybright teaches accounting at Spokane Community College, which is part of a multi-college district in eastern Washington. He has been a full-time, tenured, community college instructor for more than 25 years, and has also taught upper division courses for Linfield College. He is a co-recipient of the Washington Society of CPA's Outstanding Educator Award. Waybright received his bachelor of arts degree in business administration (with an emphasis in accounting) and master's of arts degree from Eastern Washington University.

Before becoming a professor, he spent eight years as a practicing CPA in Washington state, and still holds his license. During his teaching career, he has taught many disciplines of accounting, including financial, managerial, computerized, and payroll accounting, as well as the disciplines of entrepreneurship, economics, business math, and general business.

Waybright is one of the authors of Financial Accounting, Canadian Edition textbook.

Cheryl Wilson, CPA, CA, is an accounting professor in the School of Business, IT & Management, at Durham College. She teaches a variety of accounting and auditing courses, including advanced financial accounting and also holds the role of Accounting Program Coordinator at the College. Over the past ten years, she has taught a number of accounting and finance courses at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (OntarioTech) and currently teaches both advanced financial accounting at the undergraduate level and advanced finance in the accounting graduate diploma. She has received nominations for the Student Choice Award for her commitment and dedication to teaching.

Professor Wilson is one of the authors of Advanced Financial Accounting in Canada textbook.