安东尼．A．阿特金森（Anthony A.Atkinson），Professor in the School of Accountancy at the University of Waterloo. Anthony A.Atkinson received a Bachelor of Commerce and M.B.A. degrees from QueensUniversity in Kingston， Ontario， and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in IndustrialAdministration from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He is a fellow of theSociety of Management Accountants of Canada and has written or coauthored twotexts， various monographs， and more than 35 articles on performance measurementand costing. In 1989， the Canadian Academic Accounting Association awardedAtkinson the Haim Falk Prize for Distinguished Contribution to AccountingThought for his monograph that studied transfer pricing practice in six Canadiancompanies. He has served on the editorial boards of two professional and five academicjournals and is a past Editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research.Atkinson also served as a member of the Canadian governments Cost StandardsAdvisory Committee， for which he developed the costing principles it now requiresof government contractors.

罗伯特·S·卡普兰（Kaplan，Robert S.），Robert S. Kaplan is Baker Foundation Professor at the Harvard Business School.Kaplan joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of thebusiness school at Carnegie-Mellon University， where he served as Dean from 1977t0 1983. Kaplan received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T.， and aPh.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University. He has received honorarydoctorates from University of Stuttgart and University of Lodz.Kaplan， a co-developer of both activity-based costing and the Balanced Scorecard，has shown how to design cost and performance management systems for effectivestrategy implementation and operational excellence. He has authored or co-authored13 books， 16 Harvard Business Review articles， and more than 120 0ther papers.His fourth book co-authored with David Norton， Alignment， was published inFebruary 2006. His previous books with Norton include Strategy Maps， named as one ofthe top ten business books of 2004 by Strategy & Business and amazon.corn， TheStrategy-Focused Organization， named by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young as the best internationalbusiness book for year 2000， and The Balanced Scorecard： Translating Strategy intoAction， which has been translated int0 22 languages and won the 2001 Wildman Medalfrom the American Accounting Association for its impact on practice. Kaplans mostrecent book， on time-driven activity-based costing， was published in March 2006.Kaplan was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2006 and received theLifetime Contribution Award from the Management Accounting Section of theAmerican Accounting Association in January 2006. He was selected among the top20 Business Writers/Management Gurus in the Financial Times 2005 CEO Survey.Kaplan received the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award in 1988 from theAmerican Accounting Association （AAA）， the 1994 CIMA Award from the CharteredInstitute of Management Accountants （UK） for "Outstanding Contributions to the Accountancy Profession，" and the 2001 Distinguished Service Award from thInstitute of Management Accountants （IMA） for contributions to the practice anacademic community.

埃拉·梅·玛苏姆拉（Matsumura，Ella Mae），Ella Mae Matsumura is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting andInformation Systems in the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison， and is affiliated with the universitys Center for Quick ResponseManufacturing. She received an A.B. in Mathematics from the University ofCalifornia， Berkeley， and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of BritishColumbia. Matsumura has won two teaching excellence awards at the University ofWisconsin-Madison and was elected as a lifetime fellow of the universitys TeachingAcademy， formed to promote effective teaching. She is a member of the universityteam awarded an IBM Total Quality Management Partnership grant to develop curriculumfor total quality management education.Matsumura has served in various leadership positions in the American AccountingAssociation， including Secretary-Treasurer and President of the AssociationsManagement Accounting Section. She also chaired or served on numerous Associationcommittees. She served two terms as an Associate Editor of Accounting Horizons and iscurrently co-editor of the journal. Her past and current research articles focus on decisionmaking， performance evaluation， and compensation issues. She also coauthored amonograph on customer profitability analysis in credit unions.

S.马克·杨（Young，S.Mark），S. Mark Young holds the George Bozanic and Holman G. Hurt Chair in Sports andEntertainment Business and is also Professor of Accounting， Professor of Managementand Organization at the Marshall School of Business， University of Southern Californiaand Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at USC.Previously， Dr. Young served as the Associate Dean for Academic Planning andAssociate Dean and Academic Director of the Marshall MBA （Full-Time MBA）Program. Professor Young received an A.B. from Oberlin College （Economics）， an M.Acc. from the Ohio State University， and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.Professor Young has published research in a variety of journals including TheAccounting Review， Accounting， Organizations and Society， the Journal of AccountingResearch， the Journal of Marketing Research， the Academy of Management Review and theJournal of Research in Personality. Currently， he is on the editorial board of severalmajor journals and was past Associate Editor for The Accounting Review. In 2006， hewas a co-winner of the Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature （withShannon Anderson） and has won the Notable Contributions to the ManagementAccounting Literature Award twice——with Frank Selto （1994） and ShannonAnderson （2003）. He also received the Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations inManagement Accounting Education in 2005.Dr. Young has extensive executive teaching and consulting experience havingtaught in executive programs for Daimler- Chrysler， Texas Instruments， Shell Oil，AMGEN and British Airways. Most recently， Young has had consulting or researchrelationships with the First Data Corporation， the Chrysler Corporation， TexasInstruments and Southwest Airlines. He has won four outstanding teaching awardsat the undergraduate and graduate levels， including the Golden Apple TeachingAward and is a Distinguished Fellow in the Center for Excellence in Teaching at USC. Currently he teaches courses in management accounting and entertainment management，and leads the entertainment management program within the Marshall Schoolat USC. His book， Entertainment Management——Understanding the Business of MotionPictures， Television， Music and Games will soon be published by Prentice Hall.Professor Young also maintains an interest in popular culture and his paper，"Narcissism and Celebrity，" （with Dr. Drew Pinsky） published in the Journal ofResearch in Personality （October 2006： 463-471） recently received world-wide attention.Young even appeared on Mitch Alboms and Howard Sterns shows to discussthe findings of the research.