Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making, International Adaptation

About Jerry J. WeygandtJill E. MitchellPaul D. Kimmel

JERRY J. WEYGANDT PhD CPA is Arthur Andersen Alumni Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Illinois. Articles by Professor Weygandt have appeared in The Accounting Review Journal of Accounting Research Accounting Horizons Journal of Accountancy and other academic and professional journals. These articles have examined such financial reporting issues as accounting for price-level adjustments pensions convertible securities stock option contracts and interim reports. Professor Weygandt is author of other accounting and financial reporting texts and is a member of the American Accounting Association the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Wisconsin Society of Certified Public Accountants. He has served on numerous committees of the American Accounting Association and as a member of the editorial board of the Accounting Review; he also has served as President and Secretary-Treasurer of the American Accounting Association. He has served on the FASB task force that examined the reporting issues related to accounting for income taxes and served as a trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation. Professor Weygandt has received the Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Beta Gamma Sigma Deans Teaching Award. He is on the board of directors of M & I Bank of Southern Wisconsin. He is the recipient of the Wisconsin Institute of CPAs Outstanding Educators Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2001 he received the American Accounting Associations Outstanding Educator Award. PAUL D. KIMMEL PhD CPA received his bachelors degree from the University of Minnesota and his doctorate in accounting from the University of Wisconsin. He was an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for more than 25 years and is now a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has public accounting experience with Deloitte & Touche (Minneapolis). He was the recipient of the UWM School of Business Advisory Council Teaching Award and the Reggie Taite Excellence in Teaching Award and a three-time winner of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at the University of Wisconsin. He is also a recipient of the Elijah Watts Sells Award for Honorary Distinction for his results on the CPA exam. He is a member of the American Accounting Association and the Institute of Management Accountants and has published articles in Accounting Review Accounting Horizons Advances in Management Accounting Managerial Finance Issues in Accounting Education and Journal of Accounting Education as well as other journals. His research interests include accounting for financial instruments and innovation in accounting education. JILL E. MITCHELL MS MEd CIA is a Professor of Accounting at Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) where she has taught face-to-face hybrid and online courses since 2008. Since 2009 she has been an adjunct instructor at George Mason University (GMU). She is a past president of the Washington D.C. Chapter of the Accounting and Financial Womens Alliance (AFWA) and she served on the board of directors of the Virginia Society of CPAs (VSCPA). She is a member of the American Accounting Association (AAA) and the Institute of Internal Auditors. Jill serves on the AAA Education Committee and is the co-chair for the Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting (CTLA). Prior to joining the faculty at NOVA Jill was a senior auditor with Ernst & Youngs Business Risk Services practice in Miami Florida. She is a certified internal auditor and earned an MS in Accountancy from the University of Virginia and a BBA in Management Information Systems from the University of Georgia honors program. Recently she earned an MEd in Instructional Design Technology from GMU. Jill is a recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award the Commonwealths highest honor for faculty of Virginias universities and colleges presented by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; the Virginia Community College System Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence; the AFWAs Women Who Count Award; the AAA Two-Year College Educator of the Year Award; and the AAA/J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize the foremost recognition of an individual who consistently demonstrates the attributes of a superior teacher in the discipline of accounting.