William N. Lanen

William Lanen is Professor of Accounting at the University of Michigan Business School. He holds degrees in economics from the University of California , Berkeley and Purdue University and earned a Ph.D. in accounting from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania .

Bill teaches management accounting in both the BBA and MBA programs at the University of Michigan . He also teaches management accounting in Global MBA Programs and Executive Education Programs in Asia, Europe, and Latin America . Before coming to the University of Michigan , Bill was on the faculty at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he taught various financial and managerial accounting courses at the undergraduate, MBA, and Executive MBA levels. He has received teaching awards at both the University of Michigan and the Wharton School .

Bill serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management Accounting Research . He has published in Journal of Accounting Research , Journal of Accountin g and Economics , Accounting, Organizations, and Society , and The Accounting Review . Bill is past-president of the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association.

Shannon W. Anderson

Shannon Anderson is an Associate Professor of Management at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management of Rice University and a Principle Fellow at the University of Melbourne . She previously taught at the University of Michigan and worked as an engineer at General Motors Corporation. She received a doctorate and masters degree in business economics at Harvard University and a B.S.E. in civil engineering with a concentration in operations research at Princeton University .

Shannon 's research, which focuses on the design and implementation of performance measurement and cost control systems, spans the fields of management accounting and operations research. Her research on activity-based costing won the 2006 American Accounting Association's Notable Contribution Award and the 2003 AAA Management Accounting Section's Notable Contribution to the Literature Award. She and Bill won the 2006 AAA Management Accounting Section's Notable Contribution to the Literature Award for their study of the performance impact of electronic data interchange (EDI) systems.

Shannon currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the Accounting Review , Accounting Organizations and Society , Production and Operations Management ,

Management Science , Management Accounting Research and the Journal of Management Accounting Research . She has also served on numerous committees for the American Accounting Association and the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. Her research, which has been funded in part by competitive grants from the AICPA, the Institute of Internal Auditors and the Institute of Management Accountants , has been published by the Accounting Review , Accounting Organizations and Society , Production and Operations Management , Management Science , and the Journal of Management Accounting Research . She is also co-author of the award winning book, Implementing Management Innovations .

Michael W. Maher

Michael Maher is a Professor of Management at the University of California-Davis. He previously taught at the University of Michigan , the University of Chicago , and the University of Washington . He also worked on the audit staff at Arthur Andersen & Company and was a self-employed financial consultant for small businesses. He received his BBA from Gonzaga University , which named him Distinguished Alumnus in 1989, and his MBA and PhD from the University of Washington , and he earned the CPA from the state of Washington .

Michael was president of the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association and has served on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Management Accounting Research, and Management Accounting. He is co-author of two leading textbooks, Principles of Accounting and Managerial Accounting. Maher has co-authored several additional books and monographs, including Internal Controls in U.S. Corporations and Management Incentive Compensation Plans, and published articles in many journals, including Management Accounting, The Journal of Accountancy, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Financial Executive , and The Wall Street Journal.

For his research on internal controls, Michael was awarded the American Accounting Association's Competitive Manuscript Award and the AICPA Notable Contribution to Literature Award. He also received the award for the Outstanding Tax Manuscript. He received the Annual Outstanding Teacher Award three times from his students at the University of California 's Graduate School of Management and twice he has received a special award for outstanding service. Maher's current research includes studies in health care costs, and corporate corruption.