Charles T. Horngren was the Edmund W. LittlefieldProfessor of Accounting, emeritus, at Stanford University. A graduate ofMarquette University, he received his MBA from Harvard University and his PhDfrom the University of Chicago. He also received honorary doctorates from MarquetteUniversity and DePaul University. A certified public accountant, Horngrenserved on the Accounting Principles Board, the Financial Accounting StandardsBoard Advisory Council, and the Council of the American Institute of CertifiedPublic Accountants and served as a trustee of the Financial AccountingFoundation, which oversees the Financial Accounting Standards Board and theGovernment Accounting Standards Board. He is a member of the Accounting Hall of Fame. Horngren served the American Accounting Association as its president andas director of research. He received the associations first annual OutstandingAccounting Educator Award. He also received its Lifetime Contribution toManagement Accounting Award. The California Certified Public AccountantsFoundation gave Horngren its Faculty Excellence Award and its DistinguishedProfessor Award. He is the first person to have received both awards. TheAmerican Institute of Certified Public Accountants presented him with its firstOutstanding Educator Award. He was also named Accountant of the Year,Education, by the national professional accounting fraternity, Beta Alpha Psi.Professor Horngren was a member of the Institute of Management Accountants,where he received its Distinguished Service Award. He was a member of theInstitutes Board of Regents, which administers the Certified ManagementAccountant examinations. Horngren authored several other accounting bookspublished by Prentice Hall: Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, Introductionto Financial Accounting, Accounting, and Financial Accounting.He was also the Consulting Editor for the Charles T. Horngren Series inAccounting.
Gary L. Sundem is professor of accountingemeritus at the University of Washington, Seattle. He received his BA fromCarleton College and his MBA and PhD from Stanford University. Professor Sundemhas served as President of the American Accounting Association, ExecutiveDirector of the Accounting Education Change Commission, and Editor of TheAccounting Review. He is currently president of the InternationalAssociation for Accounting Education and Research. Sundem is a past presidentof the Seattle chapter of the IMA (formerly the Institute of ManagementAccountants). He has served on IMAs national board of directors and chairedits Academic Relations and Professional Development committees. He has chairedthe AACSBs Accounting Accreditation Committee He currently serves on the Boardof Trustees of Rainier Mutual Funds and the Board of Trustees of CarletonCollege, where he chairs the audit committee. He received the Carleton CollegeOutstanding Alumni award in 2002. Professor Sundem has numerous publications inaccounting and finance journals including Issues in Accounting Education,The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, and Journalof Finance. He was selected as the Outstanding Accounting Educator by theAmerican Accounting Association in 1998 and by the Washington Society of CPAsin 1987.
David Burgstahler was the President of the AmericanAccounting Association (2016-17) and is the Julius A. Roller Professor ofAccounting at the University of Washington, Seattle. He received his BA degreefrom the University of MinnesotaDuluth, and his PhD from the University ofIowa. He has been associate dean for masters programs and executive educationand acting dean at the University of Washington Business School. He has servedon more than 40 PhD supervisory committees and has been recognized multipletimes as Beta Alpha Psi Professor of the Year and as MBA Professor of theQuarter at the University of Washington. Professor Burgstahler was 20072009vice president of publications of the American Accounting Association and hasserved on several Association committees. Professor Burgstahler received the AmericanAccounting Associations American Institute of Certified Public AccountantsNotable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award in 2002. He has numerouspublications in journals including The Accounting Review, Journal ofManagement Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting Research, Journalof Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing:A Journal of Practice and Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting,and The CPA Journal.
Jeffrey Schatzberg is the department head (Departmentof Accounting) at the University of Arizona and has served as the Dean of theUniversity of Arizona, Eller College of Management (2015-2016). ProfessorSchatzberg received his BA (in philosophy), MA (in accounting), and PhD (in businessadministration), all at the University of Iowa. Professor Schatzberg hasnumerous publications in the most prestigious accounting and business journals,including the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review,Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice andTheory, Journal of Management Accounting Research, and Issues inAccounting Education. His teaching and research interests are in managerialaccounting and auditing. He has given numerous seminars at several U.S.universities and international schools in Canada, England, Wales, Norway,France, Germany, and Switzerland. Schatzberg has also served on the editorialboard of several scholarly accounting journals. Professor Schatzberg has beenteaching undergraduate, graduate, and MBA managerial accounting courses at theUniversity of Arizona for the past 26 years. He has extensive experience inexecutive education worldwide (e.g., United States, China, Korea, Taiwan,Mexico, and Peru), has developed customized managerial accounting programs andperformed consulting for numerous companies (e.g., Raytheon, Honeywell,Microsoft, and Intel), and has taught executives from many multinational firms(e.g., IBM, Motorola, LG, BenQ, Acer, and Mattel). Professor Schatzberg hasreceived the MBA Faculty of the Year Award from the Eller Graduate School ofBusiness at the University of Arizona on seven occasions and is the recipientof the Arizona Society of CPAs Excellence in Teaching Award. He is a CPA andworked for several years as an auditor and tax accountant in the Phoenix officeof KPMG Peat Marwick. His work experience includes both manufacturing and serviceindustry firms, as well as not-for-profit institutions.
