Author Description

About the Author James A. Heintz is Professor Emeritus of Accounting and Information Systems in the School of Business at the University of Kansas, where he taught for 15 years. He currently teaches for the University of Iowa in a study abroad program in Northern Italy. At the University of Kansas, he was Director of Accounting and Information Systems for 13 years. Prior to joining the University of Kansas, he served as Accounting Department Head at the University of Connecticut for eight years. He also served as Assistant, Associate and Full Professor for 20 years at Indiana University. Dr. Heintz earned his doctorate from Washington University in St Louis and is a CPA. He was a Price Waterhouse Faculty Fellow at Indiana, an Arthur Andersen Faculty Fellow at Connecticut, and the Deloitte and Touche Faculty Fellow at Kansas. Dr. Heintz has won numerous school and university teaching awards, including three teaching awards from the Doctoral Student Association. He has served in various capacities on 24 doctoral dissertation committees. Dr. Heintz has published numerous articles in accounting and business journals, including The Accounting Review; Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory; Accounting Horizons; Accounting and Business Research; Journal of Business Finance and Accounting; and International Journal of Accounting Education and Research. He served on the editorial board of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. Dr. Heintz has served on various committees of the AAA and the FSA, and as president of the Accounting Programs Leadership Group of the AAA. He also has participated in external reviews of accounting programs at 12 major universities. Dr. Robert Parry is Professor Emeritus of Accounting at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business in Bloomington, Indiana. An accomplished teacher, Professor Parry has taught accounting at virtually all levels. While earning his MBA, he taught accounting at Bishop Klonowski High School