ABOUT THE ADAPTING AUTHOR

BRAD POTTER is a senior lecturer in the Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. Over the past 15 years, Brad has held various academic positions both at the University of Melbourne and at Deakin University. Brad has written and delivered courses to undergraduate and postgraduate accounting students at all levels and has received a number of awards for excellence in teaching. Brad also has considerable research experience, having published a number of research articles in international journals and presented many research papers at seminars and conferences internationally. Several of the projects Brad has completed in recent years have been funded by competitive research funds.

ABOUT THE ORIGINAL AUTHORS

ROBERT LIBBY is the David A. Thomas Professor of Management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, where he teaches the introductory financial accounting course. He previously taught at the University of Illinois, Pennsylvania State University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Chicago, and University of Michigan. Bob is a widely published author specialising in behavioural accounting. He has won numerous teaching awards, being selected as the AAA Outstanding Educator in 2000. He has published numerous articles in the Journal of Accounting Research; Accounting, Organizations and Society; and other accounting journals. He is past Vice President-Publications of the American Accounting Association and is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the editorial boards of The Accounting Review; Accounting, Organizations and Society; Journal of Accounting Literature; and Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.

PATRICIA LIBBY is an Associate Professor at Ithaca College. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan. Her research activities focus on how to use cases in introductory accounting and on using collaborative learning techniques in the classroom. She teaches undergraduate introductory, intermediate and advanced Financial Accounting at Ithaca.

DANIEL SHORT is the Dean of the M.J. Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Prior to that he was Dean at Richard T. Farmer School of Business at Miami University and Dean of the Business School at Kansas State University. Before entering administration, Dan taught at the University of Texas-Austin and the University of Chicago. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan. He has won numerous awards for teaching both undergraduate and MBA financial accounting courses.