Ray H. Garrison is emeritus professor of accounting at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. He received his BS and MS degrees from Brigham Young University and his DBA degree from Indiana University.

As a certified public accountant, Professor Garrison has been involved in management consulting work with both national and regional accounting firms. He has published articles in The Accounting Review, Management Accounting, and other professional journals. Innovation in the classroom has earned Professor Garrison the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Teaching Award from Brigham Young University.

Eric W. Noreen has held appointments at institutions in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is emeritus professor of accounting at the University of Washington.

He received his BA degree from the University of Washington and MBA and PhD degrees from Stanford University. A Certified Management Accountant, he was awarded a Certificate of Distinguished Performance by the Institute of Certified Management Accountants.

Professor Noreen has served as associate editor of The Accounting Review and the Journal of Accounting and Economics. He has numerous articles in academic journals including: the Journal of Accounting Research; The Accounting Review; the Journal of Accounting and Economics; Accounting Horizons; Accounting, Organizations and Society; Contemporary Accounting Research; the Journal of Management Accounting Research; and the Review of Accounting Studies.

Professor Noreen has won a number of awards from students for his teaching.

Peter C. Brewer is a professor in the Department of Accountancy at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He holds a BS degree in accounting from Penn State University, an MS degree in accounting from the University of Virginia, and a PhD from the University of Tennessee. He has published more than 30 articles in a variety of journals including: Management Accounting Research, the Journal of Information Systems, Cost Management, Strategic Finance, the Journal of Accountancy, Issues in Accounting Education, and the Journal of Business Logistics.

Professor Brewer is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Accounting Education and has served on the editorial board of Issues in Accounting Education. His article “Putting Strategy into the Balanced Scorecard” won the 2003 International Federation of Accountants’ Articles of Merit competition, and his articles “Using Six Sigma to Improve the Finance Function” and “Lean Accounting: What’s It All About?” were awarded the Institute of Management Accountants’ Lybrand Gold and Silver Medals in 2005 and 2006. He has received Miami University’s Richard T. Farmer School of Business Teaching Excellence Award and has been recognized on two occasions by the Miami University Associated Student Government for “making a remarkable commitment to students and their educational development.” He is a leading thinker in undergraduate management accounting curriculum innovation and is a frequent presenter at various professional and academic conferences.

Prior to joining the faculty at Miami University, Professor Brewer was employed as an auditor for Touche Ross in the firm’s Philadelphia office. He also worked as an internal audit manager for the Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He frequently collaborates with companies such as Harris Corporation, Ghent Manufacturing, Cintas, Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Schneider Electric, Lenscrafters, and Fidelity Investments in a consulting or case writing capacity.

Rania Uwaydah Mardini received her BBA (with Distinction, 1996) and MBA (Finance, 1999) from the American University of Beirut. She passed the CPA Examination in 1999–with all scores within the top 10 percentile–in California where she maintains an active CPA license to date. Soon after, she joined Ernst & Young (EY), Beirut office. She left EY In 2003 to join the Olayan School of Business at the American University of Beirut where she remains a full-time faculty member, a core course coordinator, and a core/special advisor. In 2010, she obtained her Lebanese CPA license.

Rania is an Audit Committee member of the Lebanese Transparency Association, the Lebanese chapter of Transparency International, an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis, a refereed academic journal, and a member of the Undergraduate Student Academic Affairs and Curriculum Committee of the Olayan School of Business. She is also a member of both the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. She has served as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) regional project on “Anti-Corruption and Integrity in the Arab Countries” (AClAC). She has authored a case on corporate governance for the International Finance Corporation (IFC)—member of the World Bank Group and co-authored three scholarly articles. Her teaching experience spans an array of subjects relating to the accounting profession and tasks pertaining to content development, delivery and assessment. Besides her academic teaching at the University, she has conducted several workshops and seminars at the UNDP, the Institute of Finance of the Lebanese Ministry of Finance, and the Lebanese Association of Certified Public Accountants, among others.