Cambridge Business Publishers

The combined skills and expertise of Easton, Wild, Halsey, and McAnally create the ideal team to author the first new financial accounting textbook for MBAs in more than a generation. Their collective experience in award-winning teaching, consulting, and research in the area of financial accounting and analysis provides a powerful foundation for this innovative textbook.

Peter D. Easton is an expert in accounting and valuation and holds the Notre Dame Alumni Chair in Accountancy in the Mendoza College of Business. Professor Easton’s expertise is widely recognized by the academic research community and by the legal community.

Professor Easton is a Principal in Chicago Partners LLC, where he serves as a consultant on accounting and valuation issues. Professor Easton holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia. He holds a graduate degree from the University of New England and a PhD in Business Administration (majoring in accounting and finance) from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Easton’s research on corporate valuation has been published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.

Professor Easton has served as an associate editor for 11 leading accounting journals and he is currently an associate editor for the Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance. He is an editor of the Review of Accounting Studies.

Professor Easton has held appointments at the University of Chicago, the University of California at Berkeley, Ohio State University, Macquarie University, the Australian Graduate School of Management, the University of Melbourne, and Nyenrode University. He is the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in teaching and in research. Professor Easton regularly teaches accounting analysis and security valuation to MBAs. In addition, Professor Easton has taught managerial accounting at the graduate level.

John J. Wild is professor of accounting and the Robert and Monica Beyer Distinguished Professor 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 courses in accounting and analysis at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has received the Mabel W. Chipman Excellence-in-Teaching Award, the departmental Excellence-in-Teaching Award, and the MBA Teaching Excellence Award from the 2003 and 2005 graduation class at the University of Wisconsin. He also received the Beta Alpha Psi and Salmonson Excellence- in-Teaching Award from Michigan State University. Professor Wild is a past KPMG Peat Marwick National Fellow and is a prior recipient of fellowships from the American Accounting Association and the Ernst & 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 several best-selling books. His research articles on financial accounting and analysis appear in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Auditing: A Journal of Theory and Practice, and other accounting and business journals. He is past associate editor of Contemporary Accounting Research and has served on editorial boards of several respected journals, including The Accounting Review and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy.

Robert F. Halsey is an associate professor at Babson College. He received his MBA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin. Prior to obtaining his PhD he worked as the chief financial officer (CFO) of a privately held retailing and manufacturing company and as the vice president and manager of the commercial lending division of a large bank.

Professor Halsey teaches courses in financial and managerial accounting at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, including a popular course in financial statement analysis for second year MBA students. He has also taught numerous executive education courses for large multinational companies through Babson’s School of Executive Education as well as for a number of stock brokerage firms in the Boston area. He is regarded as an innovative teacher and has been recognized for outstanding teaching at both the University of Wisconsin and Babson College. He is the recipient of an Ernst & Young Fellowship and is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma and Phi Eta Sigma honor societies.

Professor Halsey’s research interests are in the area of financial reporting, including firm valuation, financial statement analysis, and disclosure issues. He is the coauthor of Financial Statement Analysis, published by McGraw- Hill/Irwin, and has publications in Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting, The Journal of the American Taxation Association, Issues in Accounting Education, The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting (3rd ed.), the CPA Journal, AICPA Professor/Practitioner Case Development Program, and in other accounting and analysis journals. He has also developed exam preparation materials for the CFA examination and administers numerous CFA review courses in the Northeast.

MARY LEA McANALLY is an associate professor and Mays Research Fellow at Texas A&M University. Professor McAnally teaches financial accounting and reporting in the MBA and Executive programs. Her casebook (co-authored with D. Eric Hirst), “Cases in Financial Reporting” is published by Prentice Hall. She has received several faculty-determined teaching awards including the Beazley Award and the Trammell/CBA Foundation Award. She has also received numerous student-initiated awards including the MBA Teaching Award at UT (1995, 2000, 2001, 2002), the MBA Association Distinguished Faculty Award at A&M (2003 and 2004) and the Class of 1997 Award for Outstanding and Memorable Faculty Member (2002). In 2006, the A&M Association of Former Students granted Professor McAnally the Distinguished Achievement Award.

Professor McAnally’s research interests include accounting and disclosure of stock options, and accounting for risk. She has published articles in the leading academic journals including Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance. In 2005, Professor McAnally received the Mays Business School Research Achievement Award. She works closely with doctoral students and has served on numerous doctoral committees. She was the director of A&M’s doctoral program until 2007.

Professor McAnally is active in the American Accounting Association and its FARS section and has been involved with the New Faculty Consortium, the FASB conference, several doctoral consortia and the KPMG PhD project.

Professor McAnally holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Alberta and a PhD from Stanford University. She is a Chartered Accountant (Canada) and Certified Internal Auditor. Prior to arriving at A&M in 2002, Professor McAnally held positions at University of Texas at Austin, University of Calgary, University of Alberta, Canadian National Railways, and Dunwoody and Company Chartered Accountants.