Ronald W. Hilton is a Professor of Accounting
at Cornell University. With bachelor’s and master’s degrees
in accounting from The Pennsylvania State University, he
received his Ph.D. 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 officer in the United States Air Force. Professor Hilton is a member of the Institute of Management
Accountants and has been active in the American
Accounting Association. He has served as associate editor
of The Accounting Review and as a member of its editorial
board. Hilton also has served on the editorial board of the
Journal of Management Accounting Research. He has been
a member of the resident faculties of both the Doctoral Consortium
and the New Faculty Consortium sponsored by the
American Accounting Association. With wide-ranging research interests, Hilton has published
articles in many journals, including the Journal of Accounting
Research, The Accounting Review, Management Science,
Decision Sciences, The Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, Contemporary Accounting Research, and the
Journal of Mathematical Psychology. He also has published
a monograph in the AAA Studies in Accounting Research
series, and he is a co-author of Cost Management: Strategies
for Business Decisions, Budgeting: Profit Planning and Control,
and Cost Accounting: Concepts and Managerial Applications.
Professor Hilton’s current research interests focus on
contemporary cost management systems and international
issues in managerial accounting. In recent years, he has
toured manufacturing facilities and consulted with practicing
managerial accountants in North America, Europe, Asia, and
Australia. |