Ronald W. Hilton is a Professor of Accounting at Cornell University. With bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from The Pennsylvania State University, he received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University.

A Cornell faculty member since 1977, Professor Hilton also has taught accounting at Ohio State and the University of Florida, where he held the position of Walter J. Matherly Professor of Accounting. Prior to pursuing his doctoral studies, Hilton worked for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Company and served as an officer in the United States Air Force.

Professor Hilton is a member of the Institute of Management Accountants and has been active in the American Accounting Association. He has served as associate editor of The Accounting Review and as a member of its editorial board. Hilton also has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Management Accounting Research. He has been a member of the resident faculties of both the Doctoral Consortium and the New Faculty Consortium sponsored by the American Accounting Association.

With wide-ranging research interests, Hilton has published articles in many journals, including the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Management Science, Decision Sciences, The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Contemporary Accounting Research, and the Journal of Mathematical Psychology. He also has published a monograph in the AAA Studies in Accounting Research series, and he is a co-author of Cost Management: Strategies for Business Decisions, Budgeting: Profit Planning and Control, and Cost Accounting: Concepts and Managerial Applications. Professor Hilton’s current research interests focus on contemporary cost management systems and international issues in managerial accounting. In recent years, he has toured manufacturing facilities and consulted with practicing managerial accountants in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

G. Ramesh is Associate Professor of Center for Public Policy of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is a Fellow of IIM, Ahmedabad with Specialization in Finance and Accounts. He was a Member of Indian Economic Service of Government of India. He specializes in Cost Management, Management Control Systems, and Performance Management. His interest is in applying management accounting and control frameworks to services sector and public system domain. He works in the areas of and health care, infrastructure, utilities, transport, software and BPO, etc. He offers training programmes on modules on Strategic Cost Management, Total Cost Management, Transfer Pricing,Value Chain Analysis, Budgeting and Business Analytics, Performance management, etc. He has undertaken several consulting and evaluation studies in public system area for various International Agencies and Central Government.

Jayadev Madugula is a Post-graduate in Commerce and obtained PhD in Finance from Osmania University, Hyderabad. He is also an associate member of Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB) and recipient of UGC-JRF and ICCSR-Teacher Fellowships. He is currently working as Associate Professor of Finance and Control area of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He has more than eight years of experience in teaching Accounting, Corporate Finance and Banking for Post-graduate and Doctoral programs at both Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and Lucknow. He has published papers in professional and research journals in the areas of accounting, banking and risk management and presented papers in national and international seminars. His resent research studies include “Basel-II and Credit Risk” and “Mergers and Acquisitions in Banks” Jayadev was visiting faculty to ESCP-EAP, European School of Management, Paris. He was also member of consulting team and has undertaken projects in the areas of accounting, finance and banking for various national and international agencies.

Jayadev has taught in several executive development programs on topics like strategic cost management, corporate finance, and risk management for the senior executives of premier Indian companies like Larsen and Toubro, Tata Motors, Infosys, Cognizant Technologies, ONGC, GAIL, HPCL, State Bank of India, and Ordinance Factories Board.