Cornerstones of Financial Accounting, 3rd Edition |

Jay Rich is a professor of accounting at Illinois State University. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Prior to entering the Ph.D. program, he worked as an auditor at Price Waterhouse & Co. in Chicago and earned his C.P.A. In 1985. Dr. Rich has published articles in numerous journals, including The Accounting Review, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Accounting Horizons, Contemporary Accounting Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Accounting Organizations and Society. He has also served on the editorial board of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory and Current Issues in Auditing. Dr. Rich has received both the Outstanding Dissertation Award and Notable Contribution to the Literature Award from the Audit Section of the American Accounting Association. He was also recognized with the Outstanding Educator Award from the Illinois CPA Society. His primary teaching interest is financial accounting and he has taught numerous courses at the undergraduate, master and doctoral levels. Dr. Rich has a wife of 35 years, Jane, and three children, Dennis, Anne and Grace. His outside interests include his family, travel and reading. He also repeatedly develops plans to exercise and diet at some point in the future. By all accounts, he is a master at grilling meat, a mediocre skier and a shameful golfer.

Jefferson P. Jones is the PricewaterhouseCoopers associate professor of accounting at Auburn University. He received his bachelor's and master of accountancy degrees from Auburn University and his PhD in accounting from Florida State University. While earning his CPA, he worked for Deloitte & Touche. He has received numerous teaching awards, including the Outstanding Master of Accountancy Professor Award, the Beta Alpha Psi Outstanding Teaching Award (six times), the Auburn University College of Business McCartney Teaching Award, and the Auburn University School of Accountancy Teaching Award. In addition to writing an intermediate accounting text, he has published articles in Advances in Accounting, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Issues in Accounting Education, International Journal of Forecasting, The CPA Journal, Managerial Finance, Journal of Accounting and Finance Research and The Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance. Jones has made numerous presentations around the country on research and pedagogical issues. He is a member of the American Accounting Association (AAA), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and the Alabama Society of CPAs (ASCPA).

Dr. Maryanne M. Mowen is associate professor of accounting emerita at Oklahoma State University. She received her Ph.D. from Arizona State University. With degrees in economics and history, she brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective to teaching and writing in both cost accounting and management accounting. Her research interests include management accounting, behavioral decision theory and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. She also teaches an ethics course about the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on the accounting profession. Dr. Mowen has published articles in journals such as Decision Science, Journal of Economic Psychology and Journal of Management Accounting Research. She has also served as a consultant to mid-sized and Fortune 100 companies and works with corporate controllers on management accounting issues. She advises entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations. Outside the classroom, she enjoys hiking, travelling, reading mysteries and solving crossword puzzles.

Dr. Don R. Hansen is professor emeritus at Oklahoma State University. He has an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Brigham Young University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. Dr. Hansen has published articles in both accounting and engineering journals, including The Accounting Review, The Journal of Management Accounting Research, Accounting Organizations and Society, Accounting Horizons and IIE Transactions. He has also served on the editorial board of The Accounting Review. His outside interests include family, church activities, reading, movies and watching sports.

Donald Jones is a tenured lecturer who teaches accounting, auditing, and income tax at the University of Windsor. He received his B.Comm. degree from the University of Windsor and his M.B.A. degree from the University of Toronto. Jones is a Canadian chartered professional accountant (CPA), having qualified as both a chartered accountant (CA) and a certified management accountant (CMA) in the province of Ontario. Jones is a member in good standing of CPA Canada and CPA Ontario. Jones has 41 years of professional public accounting experience, including service as a partner of Deloitte, an international professional accounting firm. In addition to his academic duties at the University of Windsor, Jones has led seminars both for large corporate audiences on accounting and auditing matters, including IFRS, and for private enterprise shareholder-managers on accounting and tax issues. Jones is licensed as an active public accountant (LPA) in the province of Ontario, where he carries on a professional practice.

Ralph Tassone teaches accounting at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management (Rotman), University of Toronto. He is a Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), having qualified as a Chartered Accountant (CA) in the Province of Ontario, and has over 16 years of public accounting experience. His focus in public accounting is on owner-managed businesses. At Rotman, his teaching focus is accounting; he has taught several undergraduate courses, including Introductory and Intermediate Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting and Management Control. At the graduate level, he has taught Advanced Financial Reporting for the Rotman Graduate Diploma in Professional Accounting program. He graduated from the University of Toronto Commerce program in 2000 and subsequently commenced his articling with KPMG LLP. He completed his Master of Education at OISE, University of Toronto, in 2014. He is actively involved in teaching in the CPA Ontario and CPA Canada PEP program and also volunteers his time in various community initiatives.