Cost Management: Strategies for Business Decisions
Marc Wouters,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Frank H. Selto,
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Ronald W. Hilton,
Cornell University, USA Michael W. Maher,
University of California–Davis, USA
ISBN: 0077132394 Copyright year: 2012
About the Authors
Marc Wouters has been Professor of Management Accounting at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany since 2011. He has enthusiastically worked with students in management as well as in engineering, and he has received several teaching awards. Before joining KIT, Marc Wouters was Professor of Management Accounting at the University of Twente and Associate Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He worked at Ernst & Young Management Consultants, and at the University of Maastricht. He held visiting positions at Stanford University, School of Engineering, the University of Colorado at Boulder, Nanyang University of Technology in Singapore, Monash University in Melbourne, and HEC Paris. Marc Wouters has a Master’s and PhD degree in industrial engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands and a Master’s degree in economics from Tilburg University. Frank Selto has been on the faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA since 1985, where he has taught accounting at the undergraduate and graduate levels and served as Division Chair of Accounting and Information Systems. He served as a research fellow for six years at the University of Melbourne. Selto has taught at the University of Denver, the University of Colorado at Denver, and the University of Washington. He holds MBA and PhD degrees in accounting from the University of Washington and BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from Gonzaga University and the University of Utah, respectively. Prior to earning his MBA and PhD degrees, he worked as a mechanical engineer and served as an officer in the US Army Corps of Engineers.Ronald W. Hilton is a Professor of Accounting at Cornell University, USA. With bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from The Pennsylvania State University, he received his PhD from The Ohio State University. A Cornell faculty member since 1977, Professor Hilton also has taught accounting at Ohio State and the University of Florida, where he held the position of Walter J. Matherly Professor of Accounting. Prior to pursuing his doctoral studies, Hilton worked for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Company and served as an offi cer in the United States Air Force.
A Professor of Management at the University of California–Davis, USA,
Michael Maher 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 & Co. and was a self-employed fi nancial 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.