David Burgstahler is Julius A. Roller Professor of Accounting at the University of Washington. Dave has taught at the University of Washington since 1981, where he previously served as Acting Dean in the School of Business and Associate Dean for Masters Programs and Executive Education. He earned his Ph.D. from The University of Iowa and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including The Accounting Review, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Issues in Accounting Education, and Contemporary Accounting Research. He is currently an Editor of The Accounting Review, serves on the Editorial Board ofJournal of Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting, and served as Associate Editor (1997-2000) and Editorial Board Member (2000-04) of Accounting Horizons, The Accounting Review (1983-86) and (1992-2003), Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory (multiple years) and on the Editorial Board of several other peer-reviewed journals.

Dave is a member of AAA’s FARS andMAS Sections. He served on the AAA Board of Directors as Vice President-Publications (2006-09), Publications Committee as Chair (2007-09) and member (2003-06), Competitive Manuscript Award Committee as Chair (1992-93) and member (1989-91), Notable and Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award Screening Committee as Chair(1991-92) and member (1987-88), Doctoral Fellowships Committee (1993-95), and as a member of AAA’s AUD and TLCSections.

Dave has over thirty years experience teaching, has served on over fifty Ph.D. Supervisory Committees, thirty Doctoral Dissertation Reading Committees, and has presented his research at over sixty-five conferences.  He has received numerous awards for teaching excellence and is the recipient of the University of Washington’s Schoeller Senior Fellow (2014-15), AAA’s Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award (2002), Beta Alpha Psi Professor of the Year (multiple years) and has been awarded numerous faculty fellowships and research grants.

Ira Solomon is Dean, A. B. Freeman School of Business and Debra & Rick Rees Professor of Business at Tulane University. Ira has taught at The University of Texas, The University of Arizona, and the University of Illinois, where he served as Head, Department of Accountancy, and R.C. Evans Endowed Chair in Business. He earned his Ph.D. from The University of Texas. Ira has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals including The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, andContemporary Accounting Research, in books, monographs, published proceedings, and Congressional hearings. He serves as a Consulting Editor of The Japanese Accounting Review, on the Editorial Board of several other peer-reviewed journals, and served as Associate Editor (1997-2000) ofAccounting Horizons and The Accounting Review (1989-93).

Ira is a member of the AAA’s APLG, ABO, and AUD Sections and Lifetime Service Award Committee. He served on the AAA Board of Directors as Vice President(2009-11), on AAA Council (1994-96), asChair of AUD (1994-95), on the Pathways Commission Implementation Task Forceas member(2012-13), Annual Meeting Strategic Relationship Events Team asTeam Leader (2009-10) and member (2008-09), Education Committee (2005-08), New Faculty Consortium Committee (1999-2000), AAA Nominations Committee(1999-2000) and (1989-90), Doctoral Consortium Distinguished Visiting Faculty (1994), Research Committee(1993-94) and (1990-92), Deloitte Wildman Award Committee (1993-94),  Competitive Manuscript Award Committee as Chair(1991-92) and member (1988-89) and (1996-97), and Annual Meeting Program Committee (1989-90).

Ira has over thirty years experience teaching and has received numerous academic awards for excellence including the AAA/Deloitte Wildman Medal Award (1990) and the AICPA’s Award for Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education (2009). Ira is a CPA, has served more than thirty years as an expert consultant, and has spent thirty years writing, investigating, preparing proposals, and administering U.S. and international grants.

Robert D. Allen is Professor and David Eccles Faculty Scholar at The University of Utah, having served on its faculty since 1991, and was the Director of the School of Accounting from 2005-09. Prior to obtaining his Ph.D. at Michigan State University, Bob gained professional experience with Deloitte, Haskins & Sells as auditor. Bob has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including The Accounting Review,Accounting Horizons, Issues in Accounting Education, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, and Current Issues in Auditing. He served as Associate Editor (2008-12) and on the Editorial Review Board (2004-07) ofIssues in Accounting Education.

Bob served as the first AAA Council Chair(2011-13). He is a member of AAA’s AUDand TLC Sections. Bob served on AAA Council (2010-12), as Vice President(2008-10) and President (2010-12) of TLC, as Chair of AUD Section’s Auditing Standards Committee (2005-06) and as a member of AAA’s APLG. He has served on the Council Advocacy Task Force asChair (2013-14), and as a member of theCouncil Committee on Awards Committee (2011-12), Sections and Regions Strategy Task Force (2011-12),AAA Branding Task Force (2010-11),CTLA Conference Steering Committee(2008-09), Innovation in Accounting Education Award Committee (2003-04) and (1999-2000), and as Editor of Faculty Development Update for AAA’s Accounting Education News (2011-12).

Bob has over twenty years experience teaching and has received many academic awards for excellence including the AAA/Deloitte Wildman Medal Award (2008) and the Beta Alpha Psi-The University of Utah Chapter’s Business Professional of the Year (2009). He was inducted into the TLC Section Hall of Honor in 2013. Since 2000 he has served on the Board of Directors for a U.S. bank.

Leslie D. Hodder is Associate Professor and Ernst & Young Faculty Fellow at Indiana University, Bloomington. Leslie has taught at The University of New Mexico, Stanford University, and The University of Texas. Prior to obtaining her Ph.D. at The University of Texas at Austin, Leslie gained professional experience as consultant and accountant for Ernst & Young. Leslie has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including The Accounting Review,Accounting Horizons, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting, Organizations, and Society. She is Associate Editor of Management Scienceand has served as an Editor of The Accounting Review (2011-14).

Leslie is a member of the AAA’s AUD andFARS Sections.  She has served as FARS Mid-Year Meeting Research Coordinator(2011-12), as a member of the AAA’s ATASection, on the Trueblood Seminars Committee (2009-10), and as an AAA Doctoral Consortium Fellow (2000).

Leslie has over thirty years of teaching experience and has received many academic awards for excellence including the Kelley School of Business Innovative Teaching Award (2013), Kelley School of Business Outstanding Researcher Award (2008), and AAA/Deloitte Wildman Medal Award (2009).  She is a CPA and has presented at over seventy domestic and international conferences, and served on FASB as an Academic Consultant for Post-Implementation Review (2013). Leslie has also recently served as an Advisory Board Member of MNB Technologies, as consultant and expert witness, and as Supervisory Committee Chair on the Board of Directors for Indiana University Federal Credit Union.

Jonathan Glover is Professor of Accounting and Richard M. Cyert Professor of Management and Economics at Carnegie Mellon University and currently Visiting Professor at Columbia University (2014-2015). Jonathan has taught at Carnegie Mellon since 1992, served as Academic Fellow in the Office of Chief Accountant for the SEC (2004-05) and as Visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley (Spring 2000). He served as head of the school-wide Ph.D. Program at the Tepper School of Business from 2008-2011. Jonathan earned his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including The Accounting Review,Issues in Accounting Education, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, and The European Accounting Review. Jonathan serves as Editorial Board Member of Contemporary Accounting Research and has served as an Associate Editor of Management Scienceand of the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance and as Editorial Board Member of The Accounting Review and of several other peer-reviewed journals.

Jonathan is a member of the AAA’s MASSection. He served as a member of AAA’s FARS Section, on the Senior Researcher Task Force (2013-14), Outstanding Accounting Educator Award Committeeas Chair (2013-14) and member (2012-13),Doctoral Consortium Committee as Chair(2006-07) and member (2000-01),Competitive Manuscript Award Committee (2000-01)and(2012-14),Deloitte Wildman Award Committee(1999-2000), Financial Accounting Standards Committee (2009-12), New Faculty Consortium Committee (2002, 2003), Publications Committee (2001-04),Regulation Committee (2006-07), andResearch Committee (1999-2001).

Terry J. Shevlin is Professor and Director of the Ph.D. Program at the University of California, Irvine. Terry previously taught at the University of Washington for twenty-six years, where he was Accounting Department Chair (2006-12) and School of Business Doctoral Program Director (1998-2006).  He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Terry served as Senior Editor ofThe Accounting Review (2002-05), Co-Editor of Accounting Horizons (2009-12), and Editor of Journal of the American Taxation Association (1996-99). He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of the American Taxation Association,Accounting Horizons, and Contemporary Accounting Research.

Terry serves as the Publication Committee Chair (2013-present) and as a member of the Publication Ethics Task Force (2012-present).He is a member of the AAA’s ATA and FARS Sections and serves as aRecommendation Leader for the Pathways Commission Task Force focusing onFuture Demand for Faculty. He served onAAA Council (2007-09), as President(2007-08) of ATA,and as a member ofAAA’s APLG Section. Terry has served asChair ofthe Deloitte Wildman Award Committee (1997-98), Competitive Manuscript Award Committee (2004-05), and Financial Reporting Issues Conference Committee (2006-07), and as member of the Annual Meeting Program Committee (1999-2000), New Faculty Consortium Committee (2001-02), andAAA Nominations Committee (2009-10). He has served as AAA Doctoral Consortium Distinguished Visiting Faculty five times.

Terry has twenty-eight years teaching experience and has received a number of awards including the AAA’s Outstanding Accounting Educator Award (2012) and the AAA’s Competitive Manuscript Award (1987 and 1990). He has received the University of Washington’s Business School Dean’s Faculty Research Award four times.

Frances L. Ayres is Associate Dean for Faculty Relations, Research Innovation and Accreditation and Dale Looper Chair of Accounting at The University of Oklahoma and was Director of the Steed School of Accounting from 1994-2013.  Fran earned her Ph.D. from The University of Iowa. She has published in The Accounting Review,Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Journal of Accounting Research. She served as Editor of Journal of the American Taxation Association (2000-02), Associate Editor (tax) of Accounting Horizons (2007-09), and as Editorial Board Member of The Accounting Review andJournal of Accounting and Public Policy.

Fran is a member of the Publications Committee and of AAA’s APLG, ATA,FARS, and GNP Sections. She serves asChair for the Pathways Commission Task Force focusing onProfessionally Oriented Faculty.Fran served as Trustee (2005-06),President (2004-05), and Vice President(1997-98) of ATA, as President (2006-07) and Treasurer (2003-05) of APLG, and as member of IAS and ABO.  She has served as Chair (2005-06) and member (1999-2000) of the Annual Meeting Program Committee, and as member of theDistinguished Contribution to Accounting Literature Award Selection Committee (2013-14), Finance Committee(2003-06), Information Technology Interaction Committee (2000-01),Research Impact Task Force (2007-08),and as Chair (1999-2000) and member (1998-99) of the Two-Year College Faculty Relations Committee.

Fran has taught at The University of Oklahoma for thirty-three years and has received many awards including the Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award (2010), ATA’s Outstanding Service Award (2008), Steed School of Accounting Outstanding Service Award (2013), and the Harold Hackler Outstanding MBA Professor Award (2010-11).

Patricia M. Poli is Associate Professor of Accounting at the Dolan School of Business, Fairfield University. She currently serves as a Co-Chair of the University’s Water Steering Committee – a two-year interdisciplinary campus-wide initiative focusing on water’s significance in the environment, society, and our health. Pat obtained her Ph.D. from New York University.

Pat served on AAA Council as Chair(2013-14), is currently Past Chair of Council, and has been a Council member for seven years (2001-02, 2003-04, and 2010-15). She is a member of AAA’s AUD,FIA, and IAS Sections. Pat has served asPresident (2003-04) and Program Chair(2002-03) for the Northeast Region. For theIAS Section she served as President (2010-11), Nominations Committee Chair (2012-13), Co-Chair of Mid-Year Meeting (2009-10), and Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee (2008-09) that developed the IAS’s 2009 Strategic Plan, and as Teaching and Curriculum (Education) Chair (2004-05).  Pat has served on AAA’s FARSSection, as a member of the Global Summit Task Force (2011-12), and theMembership Advisory Committee (2004-05).

Pat has more than 25 years of teaching experience and is a Faculty Fellow of the Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network. She is a co-author of the audit simulation, Proli Footwear, Inc. and has received research awards for articles published in the Transportation Research Forum.  Pat has served on the Board of Directors of Beta Alpha Psi (2007-11), having chaired its 2011 Annual Meeting. She is a member of the Connecticut Society of CPAs, currently serving as a member of its Educational Trust Fund.  Pat has served as its President (2005-06) and member and Chair of many of its committees.