Kim Langfield-Smith

Kim is Professor of Management Accounting in the Department of Accounting and Finance at Monash University, Australia. Prior appointments were at La Trobe University; The University of Melbourne; University of Tasmania and University of Technology; Sydney. Before entering academic life she worked as an accountant in several commercial organisations. Kim has a BEc from the University of Sydney in accounting, a MEc from Macquarie University, a PhD from Monash University and is a fellow of CPA Australia.

Helen Thorne

Helen is Professor of Management and Head of the International Graduate School of Business at the University of South Australia. Previously she has held appointments in the Graduate School of Management and the Commerce Department at the University of Adelaide. She has a BEc and DipAcc from Flinders University, and a PhD from The University of Adelaide. Her research focuses on contemporary approaches to management accounting, including activity-based costing and strategic performance measurement systems, and she has published in refereed journals in these areas, including Journal of Cost Management, Advances in Management Accounting and Australian Accounting Review.

Before commencing her academic career, Helen worked as a management accountant with a major international company. Since then she has maintained her interests in the 'real world'. She is an active member of CPA Australia and has undertaken consulting work in management accounting for a number of organisations in the manufacturing and service industries.