Managerial Accounting

Stacey WhitecottonStacey Whitecotton is an associate professor of accounting in the W. P. CareySchool of Business at Arizona State University. She received her PhD andMasters of Accounting from The University of Oklahoma and her Bachelors inBusiness Administration from Texas Tech University. Stacey teaches managerialaccounting and has received numerous awards for outstanding teaching at theundergraduate and graduate level.Stacey's research interests center around the use of decision aids to improvethe decision-making behavior of financial analysts, managers, and auditors.Her research has been published in The Accounting Review, OrganizationalBehavior and Human Decision Processes, Behavioral Research in Accounting,Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, and The Journal of Behaviora lDecision Making.Stacey and her husband Mark enjoy traveling and the many outdoor activitiesArizona has to offer with their two children, Riley and Carley.Robert LibbyRobert Libby is the David A. Thomas Professor of Accounting and AccountingArea Coordinator at Cornell University, where he teaches the introductoryfinancial accounting course. He previously taught at the University of Illinois,Pennsylvania State University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University ofChicago, and the University of Michigan. He received his BS from PennsylvaniaState University and his MAS and PhD from the University of Illinois; he alsosuccessfully completed the CPA exam (Illinois).Bob was selected as the AAA Outstanding Educator in 2000 and received theAAA Outstanding Service Award in 2006 and the AAA Notable Contributionsto the Literature Award in 1985 and 1996. He has received the Core FacultyTeaching Award multiple times at Cornell. He is a widely published author andresearcher specializing in behavioral accounting. He has published numerousarticles in The Accounting Review; Journal of Accounting Research; Accounting,Organizations, and Society; and other accounting journals. He has held a varietyof offices, including vice president, in the American Accounting Association;and he is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the editorial boardsof The Accounting Review and Accounting, Organizations, and Society.Fred PhillipsFred Phillips is a professor and the George C. Baxter Scholar at the Universityof Saskatchewan, where he teaches introductory financial accounting. He alsohas taught introductory accounting at the University of Texas at Austin and theUniversity of Manitoba. Fred has an undergraduate accounting degree, a CPA,and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. He previously worked as anaudit manager at KPMG.Fred's main career interest is accounting education. He has been recognizedwith more than 25 awards, as chosen by his students and peers. In 2006, Fredwas awarded the title Master Teacher at the University of Saskatchewan. In2011, he was admitted to the 3M National Teaching Fellowship, the highesthonor for undergraduate teaching in Canada. In the same year, he won anational competition for an instructional case. In 2012, Fred received the L. S.