eTextbook: Fundamentals of Accounting and Financial Management, 8th Edition | AU/NZ

Ken Trotman is a Scientia Professor and was Head of the School of Accounting at UNSW from 1991 to February 2000. He has held visiting appointments at a range of overseas institutions including Cornell University, the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His main current research interests are concerned with judgment and decision making in accounting. He has a particular interest in the judgments made by auditors. He is a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and a Fellow of CPA Australia. Ken was the 1993/94 President of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ). In 1998 he received the AFAANZ 'Outstanding Contribution to the Accounting Literature' award and later awarded life membership of AFAANZ. In 1998 he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He received the 2000/2001 Outstanding Auditing Educator Award from the Audit Section of the American Accounting Association. He received the 2008 Notable Contribution to the Auditing Literature Award from the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association and the 2009 Notable (Lifetime) Contribution Award in Behavioral Accounting Literature from the American Accounting Association. He received ARC Professorial Fellow Grant 2011-2015 and was inducted into the Australian Accounting Hall of Fame in 2011.

Kerry Humphreys is an Associate Professor at UNSW. She researches, teaches and designs curricula in strategic management accounting, and supervises Honours and postgraduate research students. Her research investigates when managers make effective decisions incorporating strategy and performance information, including the balanced scorecard, and how new managers can learn to make better decisions using this information. Kerry publishes in leading international academic journals (ABDC A* ranked. Her research has received external funding from the Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). She served as Director of the UNSW Business School’s Experimental Research Laboratory (BizLab). Kerry has received several awards for teaching and research, including an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, AFAANZ/Pearson Education Accounting/Finance Lecturer of the Year award, UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s teaching excellence awards and a UNSW Scientia research fellowship. The American Accounting Association (AAA) also recognized Kerry’s research with an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for the Accounting, Behavior and Organizations section.

Victoria Clout is a Senior Lecturer in the UNSW Business School. Before joining UNSW, Victoria was an Assistant Professor at the UWA Business School (2009-2011), and prior to that, a lecturer at Curtin Business School (2008) and University of Queensland (2006-2007). Victoria undertook her PhD at Queensland University of Technology and was nominated for a QUT Outstanding Thesis Award. Victoria's research interests include corporate governance, value relevance, valuation and capital markets. She has published papers in journals including Accounting & Finance, Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics, and the Australian Journal of Management. Victoria has research leadership roles including Deputy Director – Engagement of the Financial Research Network (FIRN) and is an Associate Editor of the Australian Journal of Management and Accounting & Finance. Victoria's current teaching interest is in financial accounting. She also has experience in teaching corporate accounting, financial accounting theory and financial statement analysis courses.

Kate Morgan is a sessional lecturer in the School of Accounting, UNSW Sydney, teaching the core financial accounting subject in the Masters of Professional Accounting Program. She has extensive experience in the teaching of introductory financial accounting including design and question setting. She has designed accounting materials for undergraduate and masters programs in both face-to-face and online settings including MBA face-to-face and online programs. Kate developed material for the first edition of this book, has regularly updated material through many editions and has now joined the team as an author. Prior to returning to the university she held senior management positions specialising in project and program management, accounting and information systems design.