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 Education. 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.

In his leisure time, Professor Wild enjoys hiking, sports, travel, people, and spending time with family and friends.

WINSTON KWOK CHEE CHIU
is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting at the National University of Singapore Business School.

He received his MBA and PhD from Richard Ivey School of Business, University of WesternOntario, Canada. Professor Kwok teaches accounting courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as executive programs conducted in Chinese. He received Outstanding Educator Awards from the Business School in 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014. He also received the University’s Teaching Excellence Awards in 2011, 2013 and 2014. For winning the University Awards three times, Professor Kwok has been placed on the Honor Roll.

Professor Kwok’s research papers appeared in Journal of Accounting Literature, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Asian Case Research Journal and Accounting, Auditing, and Accountability Journal. Professor Kwok was an Associate Editor for the Asian Case Research Journal and has published many original teaching cases. He co-authored several accounting textbooks since 2007 and more than twenty thousand copies of the books have been sold to institutions in Hong Kong and Mainland China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand.

Being a Chartered Accountant in Singapore, Professor Kwok also served on committees such as the Singapore Corporate Awards. He regularly supervises and accompanies students to international business case competitions and study trips.

KEN W. SHAW
is an associate professor of accounting and the Deloitte Professor of Accounting at the University of Missouri. He previously was on the faculty at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has also taught in international programs at the University of Bergamo (Italy) and the University of Alicante (Spain). 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 accounting at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has received numerous School of Accountancy, College of Business and university-level teaching awards. He was voted the “Most Influential Professor” by three 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 the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

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; The Accounting Review; Contemporary Accounting Research; Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis; Journal of the American Taxation Association; Strategic Management Journal; Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance; Journal of Financial Research; and other journals. He has served on the editorial boards of Issues in Accounting Education; Journal of Business Research; and Research in Accounting Regulation. Professor Shaw is co-author of Financial and Managerial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, and College Accounting, all published by McGraw-Hill Education.

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 a tenured 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 Education.

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.