Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis

Edward Blocher

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Meet the Authors
Edward J. Blocher is an emeritus professor of accounting at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His undergraduate degree
(economics) is from Rice University, his MBA from Tulane University, and his PhD from
the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Blocher has presented regularly on strategic cost
management at the national meetings of both the American Accounting Association (AAA)
and the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA).
While he is involved in a number of accounting organizations, Professor Blocher has been
most continually active in the IMA, where he has been a member of the IMA’s Research
Foundation. He is a certified management accountant (CMA), has taught review courses for
the CMA exam, and has served on the IMA’s national education committee. He has supervised or participated in the direction of several doctoral students, many of whom prepared
dissertations in management accounting. Professor Blocher is also the author or coauthor of
several articles in management accounting and in other areas of accounting and has served as
associate editor and reviewer for a number of accounting journals. He published a 2009 article
in Issues in Accounting Education on the topic of teaching strategic cost management.
Putting research and teaching into practice is important to Professor Blocher, who has
worked closely with other firms and organizations in developing products, publications, and
teaching materials. He was a member of the task force for the IMA that developed a new
definition of management accounting in 2008. From 2010 to 2014, he served as a member of
the joint curriculum task force of the Management Accounting Section (MAS) of the AAA
and the IMA, which was charged with the responsibility of developing curriculum recommendations for accounting education. The task force has two recent publications in Issues
in Accounting Education. Also, he has provided expert testimony and has consulted with a
number of organizations regarding cost management matters.
David E. Stout is currently the director of the Master of Accounting (MAcc) programs at
Villanova University. From 2003 to 2017, Professor Stout was the John S. and Doris M. Andrews
Professor of Accounting at Youngstown State University. Previously, he was the John M. Cooney
Professor of Accounting at Villanova University. Prior to this, he served as a faculty member at
Rider University. Professor Stout earned his PhD in accounting (1982) from the Katz Graduate
School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. He served previously as editor of Issues in Accounting
Education and as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Accounting Education. Professor Stout has
published more than 100 articles in professional and academic journals, including Advances in
Accounting Education, Issues in Accounting Education, the Journal of Accounting Education,
The Accounting Educators’ Journal, Advances in International Accounting, Behavioral Research
in Accounting (BRIA), The CPA Journal, Educational and Psychological Measurement, the IMA
Educational Case Journal, Managerial Finance, Management Accounting, Management Accounting Quarterly, Financial Practice and Education, Strategic Finance, and Advances in Accounting. He is past president of the Teaching, Learning & Curriculum (TLC) Section of the American
Accounting Association (AAA), past president of the Academy of Business Education (ABE), and
past president of the AAA Ohio Region. During the period 2011–2014, Professor Stout served as
a member of the AAA Board of Directors. In 2007, he received the R. Lee Brummet Award for
Distinguished Accounting Educators, Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), and the Ohio
Outstanding Accounting Educator Award, which is co-sponsored by the Ohio Society of CPAs and
the AAA’s Ohio Region. In 2008, Professor Stout received the Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award from the AICPA, and the Distinguished Service Award for Educators
given by the IMA. Also in 2008, Professor Stout was inducted into the Hall of Honor of the AAA
TLC Section and was selected by Ohio Magazine as one of Ohio’s Outstanding College and University Teachers. In 2012, he was a co-recipient of the Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education, an award given annually by the Management Accounting Section
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2018
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