Managerial Accounting A Focus on Decision Making

Roby Sawyers, C.M.A., C.P.A., is Professor of Accounting at North Carolina State University. He earned a Ph.D. from Arizona State University, a Master of Accountancy from the University of South Florida, and a B.S.B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He regularly teaches courses in managerial and cost accounting, strategic cost management, taxation of business entities, tax research and taxes and business strategy. In addition to serving on the faculty at NC State since 1989, Professor Sawyers has served as a visiting professor in the International Management Program at the IESEG School of Management, Catholic University, Lille, France, the Vienna School of Economics and Business (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien), and Kenan Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has received awards for both outstanding teaching and outstanding extension and engagement while at NC State. He has published articles in a variety of journals, including Journal of Accountancy, Journal of Business Ethics, American Business Law Journal, Journal of the American Taxation Association, ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research, Advances in Taxation, National Tax Journal, The Tax Adviser, Tax Notes, The CPA Journal, and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. He is an author of Managerial Accounting: A Focus on Ethical Decision Making, now in its 5th edition, and the author of a chapter on Strategic Cost Management published in The Global Business Handbook – The Eight Dimensions of International Management. Dr. Sawyers' professional activities include a variety of committee assignments with the American Institute of CPA's, North Carolina Association of CPA's, the American Accounting Association and the American Taxation Association. Professor Sawyers lives with his wife and daughter in Raleigh, North Carolina.Jackson, Steve is the author of 'Managerial Accounting A Focus on Decision Making' with ISBN 9780324304183 and ISBN 0324304188.