Intermediate Accounting, Volume 1 (12th Canadian Edition) – PDF

About The Author

Bruce J. McConomy

Donald E. Kieso

Professor Donald E. Kieso, Ph.D., C.P.A., received his bachelor's degree from Aurora University and his doctorate in accounting from the University of Illinois. Kieso has served as chairman of the Department of Accountancy and is currently the KPMG Peat Marwick Emeritus Professor of Accounting at Northern Illinois University. Dr. Kieso has public accounting experience with Arthur Andersen & Co. (Chicago) and Price Waterhouse & Co. (San Francisco and Chicago) and research experience with the Research Division of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (New York). He has done postdoctorate work as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and is a recipient of NIU's Teaching Excellence Award and 4 Golden Apple Teaching Awards. Donald is the author of many accounting and business books and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the American Accounting Association, and the Illinois CPA Society. He has served as a member of the AACSB's Accounting Accreditation Committees, the Board of Directors of the Illinois CPA Society, the State of Illinois Comptroller's Commission, as Secretary-Treasured of the Federation of Schools of Accountancy, and as Secretary-Treasurer of the American Accounting Association. Dr. Kieso also served as a charter member of the national Accounting Education Change Commission. He is the recipient of the FSA's Joseph A. Silvoso Award of Merit, the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award from the Illinois CPA Society, and the NIU Foundation's Humanitarian Award for Service to Higher Education.

Irene M. Wiecek

Jerry J. Weygandt

Dr. Jerry J. Weygandt, PhD, CPA, is Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor of Accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Illinois. Articles by Jerry have appeared in the Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accountancy, Journal of Accounting Research, and other academic and professional journals. These articles have examined such financial reporting issues as convertible securities, accounting for price-level adjustments, pensions, stock option contracts, and interim reports. Dr. Jerry is author of other accounting and financial reporting books and is a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Wisconsin Society of Certified Public Accountants. He has served on numerous committees of the American Accounting Association and as a member of the editorial board of the Accounting Review; he also has served as President and Secretary-Treasurer of the American Accounting Association. Jerry is the recipient of the Wisconsin Institute of CPAs Outstanding Educator's Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2001 he received the American Accounting Association's Outstanding Accounting Educator Award.

Terry D. Warfield

Dr. Terry D. Warfield is the PwC Professor in Accounting at the Wisconsin School of Business. He is also the Richard J. Johnson Chair of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at Wisconsin School of Business.

Terry's area of expertise is financial accounting. Prior to his academic career, he worked for 5 years in the banking industry and from 1995-1996 he served as the Academic Accounting Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington D.C. While on the staff, Dr. Warfield worked on projects related to financial institutions, financial instruments, and helped coordinate a symposium on intangible asset financial reporting.

He received a B.S. and MBA from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.