About our authors
William (Bill) Thomas is Emeritus 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, Dr. 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 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 the designation of 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 readers.
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 CPAs and Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, and the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Wendy M. Tietz is a professor in the Department of Accounting in the College of Business Administration at Kent State University. She teaches introductory financial and managerial accounting in a variety of formats, including large sections, small sections, and online sections.
Dr. Tietz is a Certified Public Accountant (Ohio), a Certified Management Accountant, and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. She is a member of the American Accounting Association, the Institute of Management Accountants, the American Institute of CPAs and Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Alliance. She has published articles in such journals as Issues in Accounting Education, Accounting Education: An International Journal, IMA Educational Case Journal, and Journal of Accounting & Public Policy. Dr. Tietz is also the coauthor of a managerial accounting textbook, Managerial Accounting, with Dr. Karen Braun. She received the 2017 Bea Sanders/AICPA Innovation in Teaching Award for her web tool for financial accounting instructors, the Accounting Case Template. In 2016, Dr. Tietz was awarded the Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education from the American Accounting Association/Institute of Management Accountants for her accounting educator blog, Accounting in the Headlines. She also received the 2014 Bea Sanders/AICPA Innovation in Teaching Award for her blog. She regularly presents at AAA regional and national meetings. She is intensely interested in the power of storytelling, interactivity, and social media as educational practices to promote engagement and understanding.
Dr. Tietz earned her PhD from Kent State University. She received both her MBA and BSA from the University of Akron. Prior to teaching, she worked in the industry for several years, both as a controller for a financial institution and as the operations manager and controller for a recycled plastics manufacturer.
