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Walter T. Harrison Jr. is professor emeritus of accounting at the Hankamer School
of Business, Baylor University. He received his BBA from Baylor University, his MS
from Oklahoma State University, and his PhD from Michigan State University.
Professor Harrison, recipient of numerous teaching awards from student groups
as well as from university administrators, has also taught at Cleveland State Community
College, Michigan State University, the University of Texas, and Stanford
University.

A member of the American Accounting Association and the American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants, Professor Harrison has served as chairman of the
Financial Accounting Standards Committee of the American Accounting Association,
on the Teaching/Curriculum Development Award Committee, on the Program
Advisory Committee for Accounting Education and Teaching, and on the Notable
Contributions to Accounting Literature Committee.

Professor Harrison has lectured in several foreign countries and published articles
in numerous journals, including Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accountancy,
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Economic Consequences of Financial Accounting
Standards, Accounting Horizons, Issues in Accounting Education, and Journal of Law and
Commerce.

He is co-author of Financial & Managerial Accounting, second edition, 2009 and
Accounting, eighth edition, 2009 (with Charles T. Horngren and M. Suzanne Oliver),
published by Pearson Prentice Hall. Professor Harrison has received scholarships,
fellowships, and research grants or awards from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte &
Touche, the Ernst & Young Foundation, and the KPMG Foundation.


Charles T. Horngren (1926—2011) was the Edmund W. Littlefield professor of
accounting, emeritus, at Stanford University. A graduate of Marquette University,
he received his MBA from Harvard University and his PhD from the University of
Chicago. He was also the recipient of honorary doctorates from Marquette University
and DePaul University.

A certified public accountant, Horngren served on the Accounting Principles
Board for six years, the Financial Accounting Standards Board Advisory Council for
five years, and the Council of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
for three years. For six years he served as a trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation,
which oversees the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Government
Accounting Standards Board.

Horngren is a member of the Accounting Hall of Fame.

A member of the American Accounting Association, Horngren was its president
and its director of research.

He received its first annual Outstanding Accounting Educator Award.

The California Certified Public Accountants Foundation gave Horngren its
Faculty Excellence Award and its Distinguished Professor Award. He was the first person to have received both awards.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants presented its first
Outstanding Educator Award to Horngren.

Horngren was named Accountant of the Year, in Education, by the national
professional accounting fraternity, Beta Alpha Psi.

Professor Horngren was also a member of the Institute of Management Accountants,
from whom he received its Distinguished Service Award. He was a member
of the institute’s Board of Regents, which administers the Certified Management
Accountant examinations.

Horngren is the author of these other accounting books published by Pearson:
Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, Fifteenth Edition, 2015 (with Srikant Datar
and George Foster); Introduction to Financial Accounting, Eleventh Edition, 2014
(with Gary L. Sundem, John A. Elliott, and Donna Philbrick); Introduction to Management
Accounting, Sixteent