About the Author

Sally M. Jones is the KPMG Peat Marwick Professor of Accounting at the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia, where she teaches both graduate and undergraduate tax courses. Before joining the Virginia faculty in 1992, Professor Jones spent 14 years on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. She received her undergraduate degree from Augusta College, her M.P.A. from the University of Texas, and her Ph.D. from the University of Houston. She is also a CPA. Professor Jones is the author of Federal Taxes and Management Decisions (Irwin/McGraw-Hill) and was the first editor of Advances in Taxation (JAI Press) and the Price Waterhouse Case Studies in Taxation. She has published numerous articles in the Journal of Taxation, The Tax Adviser, and the Journal of the American Taxation Association. Professor Jones is a frequent speaker at tax conferences and symposia and is a past president of the American Taxation Association, and the 2000 recipient of the Ray M. Sommerfeld Outstanding Tax Educator Award.