John J. Wild

is a distinguished professor of accounting at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He previously held appointments at Michigan State University and the University of Manchester in England. He received his BBA, MS, and PhD from the University of Wisconsin.

Professor Wild teaches accounting courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has received numerous teaching honors, including the Mabel W.Chipman Excellence-in-Teaching Award, the departmental Excellence-in-Teaching Award, and the Teaching Excellence Award from the 2003 and 2005 business graduates at the University of Wisconsin. He also received the Beta Alpha Psi and Roland F.Salmonson Excellence-in-Teaching Award from Michigan State University. Professor Wild has received several research honors and is a past KPMG Peat Marwick National Fellow and is a recipient of fellowships from the American Accounting Association and the Ernst and Young Foundation.

Professor Wild is an active member of the American Accounting Association and its sections. He has served on several committees of these organizations, including the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award, Wildman Award, National Program Advisory, Publications, and Research Committees. Professor Wild is author of Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, and College Accounting, each published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin. His research articles on accounting and analysis appear in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and other journals. He is past associate editor of Contemporary Accounting Research and has served on several editorial boards including The Accounting Review.

Professor Wild, his wife, and four children enjoy travel, music, sports, and community activities.

Ken W.Shaw

is an associate professor of accounting and the CBIZ/MHM Scholar at the University of Missouri. He previously was on the faculty at the University of Maryland at College Park. He received an accounting degree from Bradley University and an MBA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin. He is a Certified Public Accountant with work experience in public accounting.

Professor Shaw teaches financial accounting at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He received the Wiliams Keepers LLC Teaching Excellence award in 2007, was voted the “Most Influential Professor” by the 2005 and 2006 School of Accountancy graduating classes, and is a two-time recipient of the O'Brien Excellence in Teaching Award. He is the advisor to his School's chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, a national accounting fraternity.

Professor Shaw is an active member of the American Accounting Association and its sections. He has served on many committees of these organizations and presented his research papers at national and regional meetings. Professor Shaw's research appears in the Journal of Accounting Research; Contemporary Accounting Research; Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis; Journal of the American Taxation Association; Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance; Journal of Financial Research; Research in Accounting Regulation; and other journals. He has served on the editorial boards of Issues in Accounting Education and the Journal of Business Research, and is treasurer of the American Accounting Association’s FARS. Professor Shaw is co-author of Financial and Managerial Accounting and College Accounting, both published by McGraw-Hill.

In his leisure time, Professor Shaw enjoys tennis, cycling, music, and coaching his children's sports teams.

Barbara Chiappetta

received her BBA in Accountancy and MS in Education from Hofstra University and is atenured full professor at Nassau Community College. For the past two decades, she has been an active executive board member of the Teachers of Accounting at Two-Year Colleges (TACTYC), serving 10 years as vice president and as president from 1993 through 1999. As an active member of the American Accounting Association, she has served on the Northeast Regional Steering Committee, chaired the Curriculum Revision Committee of the Two-Year Section, and participated in numerous national committees.

Professor Chiappetta has been inducted into the American Accounting Association Hall of Fame for the Northeast Region. She had also received the Nassau Community College dean of instruction’s Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award. Professor Chiappetta was honored with the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 1997. As a confirmed believer in the benefits of the active learning pedagogy, Professor Chiappetta has authored Student Learning Tools, an active learning workbook for a first-year accounting course, published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin.

In her leisure time, Professor Chiappetta enjoys tennis and participates on a U.S.T.A.team. She also enjoys the challenge of bridge. Her husband, Robert, is an entrepreneur in the leisure sport industry. She has two sons—Michael, a lawyer, specializing in intellectual property law in New York, and David, a composer, pursuing a career in music for film in Los Angeles.

Dr. Khaled Dahawy

is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the American University of Cairo where he also serves as the Director of the MBA Program. Dr. Dahawy received his PhD from the University of North Texas, MBA from Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), and Bachelor of Business Administration from AUC. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Illinois and by the Egyptian Society of Accountants and Auditors. Dr. Dahawy’s experience ranges from consultancy work for the World Bank, other non-profit organizations, private companies. He publishes in international and local refereed journals and teaches a wide range of subjects such as Financial Accounting, Auditing, Taxation and International Accounting.

Dr. Khaled Samaha

is an Assistant Professor at the American University in Cairo. He received his PhD from the Manchester Business School, and an MSc from the Birmingham Business School. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in financial accounting, auditing, international accounting and cost accounting and has won several teaching awards. He has developed several accounting courses in the new Accounting curriculum at the American University in Cairo. Dr. Samaha is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) from the Egyptian Society for Accountants and Auditors (ESAA), and is certified by the Egyptian Accounting Syndicate. He is also a member of the American Accounting Association (AAA), European Accounting Association (EAA) and a fellow of the Egyptian Institute for Public Finance and Taxes. Dr. Samaha has extensive practical experience in the application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and has recently published three papers about convergence with IASs/IFRSs in Egypt.