About the Authors

Joe Hoyle is an associate professor of accounting at the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond. In 2019, he was named a Robins Teaching Fellow at his school. Also, in that year, his former students raised money to create an Accounting Teaching Fellowship, which will be renamed the “Joe Hoyle Accounting Teaching Fellowship” on his eventual retirement. In 2006, he was named by BusinessWeek as one of twenty-six favorite undergraduate business professors in the United States. In 2007, he was selected as the Virginia Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. In 2009, he was judged to be one of the one hundred most influential members of the accounting profession by Accounting Today. Joe has two market-leading textbooks published with McGrawHill—Advanced Accounting (14th edition, 2020) and Fundamentals of Advanced Accounting (6th edition, 2020), both coauthored with Tom Schaefer of the University of Notre Dame and Tim Doupnik (retired).

Joe earned his BA degree in accounting from Duke University and his MA degree in business and economics, with a minor in education, from Appalachian State University. He has written numerous articles and continues to make presentations around the country on teaching excellence. He maintains a blog on teaching at http://www.joehoyle-teaching.blogspot.com/. Joe and his wife, Sarah, have four children and four grandchildren.

C. J. Skender has received multiple teaching awards at the University of North Carolina (17), at Duke University (8), and at North Carolina State University (5). He has been included among the outstanding Duke/Fuqua faculty in four editions of the Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools. Skender received the 1995 North Carolina Outstanding Educator from the NCACPA. He also received the James M. Johnston Teaching Excellence Award at the University of North Carolina in 2005. His classes were featured in http://www.businessweek.com and https://www.si.com in 2006. Skender was named a favorite undergraduate professor by Bloomberg Business Week in 2012. He was named One of Top 40 Undergraduate Professors by Poets & Quants in 2017. He has served as a training consultant on three continents for Glaxo Wellcome, IBM, Nortel Networks, Paragon Trade Brands, Siemens, Starwood, and Wells Fargo. Skender holds academic degrees from Lehigh University and Duke University. He attended Lehigh on a basketball scholarship and graduated magna cum laude. He has attained eleven professional designations in accounting, financial planning, insurance, and management: CPA (Certified Public Accountant), CMA (Certified Management Accountant), CCA (Certified Cost Analyst), CIA (Certified Internal Auditor), ChFC (Chartered Financial Consultant), CLU (Chartered Life Underwriter), CFP (Certified Financial Planner), AIAF (Associate in Insurance Accounting and Finance), CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner), CFM (Certified in Financial Management), and CBM (Certified Business Manager).

Leah Kratz, CPA, MBA teaches a variety of accounting courses including financial, intermediate, cost, tax, and auditing. Leah earned her undergraduate degree in accounting at Eastern Mennonite University and her MBA at James Madison University. Her work experience includes public accounting and government work, including the Assistant Fiscal Director of Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Leah lives in Harrisonburg, VA with her husband, Jeremy and their four children, Madeleine, Sophia, Anderson, and Nolan. In her spare time Leah enjoys travel, cooking, working in her flowerbeds, reading, hiking, and biking.