About our authors
Wendy M. Tietz is a professor in the Department of Accounting in the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship at Kent State University. She teaches introductory financial and managerial accounting in a variety of formats. She also teaches advanced management accounting and advanced accounting analytics and technology in the masters program.
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, and the AICPA-CIMA. 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 is a recipient of the American Accounting Association/J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize for superior undergraduate teaching. She is a co-recipient of the a Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education from the American Accounting Association/Institute of Management Accountants for data analytics projects for introductory accounting. She has also won the Bea Sanders/AICPA Innovation in Teaching Award in multiple years for her blog, data analytics projects, and more. She regularly presents at AAA regional and national meetings, educator conferences, and state society of CPAs. She is intensely interested in the power of educational technology 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 industry for several years, both as a controller for a financial institution and as the operations manager and controller for a recycled plastics manufacturer.
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 served as the J.E. Bush Professor of Accounting from 1995 until his retirement in 2020. He was a member of the faculty of the Accounting and Business Law Department of the Hankamer School of Business from 1971 until his retirement in 2020, and served as chair of the department for 12 years. He was recognized as an Outstanding Faculty Member of Baylor University as well as a Distinguished Professor for the Hankamer School of Business. Dr. Thomas 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 served 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 CPAs and Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, and the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.
