Arnold Schneider is Professor and Area Coordinator of Accounting at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he teaches and does research in auditing, managerial accounting and cost accounting. Professor Schneider is a bachelor's graduate of Case Western Reserve University and holds masters and doctoral degrees from Ohio State University. He was an auditor with the U.S. General Accounting Office in Washington, D.C. He is a CPA and is a member of the American Accounting Association.
Professor Schneider has also served as a Visiting Fellow in Accounting at Macquarie University in Australia and as a Visiting Associate Professor at Emory University. He has published over 30 articles in various journals such as Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting Review, Decision Sciences, and Contemporary Accounting Research.
Professor Schneider has served on the editorial boards of the Accounting Review, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Advances in Accounting, Issues in Accounting Education, and Southwest Business Review. In 1986, Georgia Tech's College of Management gave Professor Schneider the Young Investigator Award for his research.
Professor Schneider has taught undergraduate, masters, and doctoral courses. In addition, he has taught financial and managerial accounting courses to working managers. For several years, he lectured to Chinese executives in the China/U.S. Professional Exchange Program at Georgia Tech. Professor Schneider has served as a consultant with various organizations, including as an expert witness for court cases. He has also held officer and board of director positions for several nonprofit organizations.
Harold M. Sollenberger is Professor of Accounting at Michigan State University. He holds MBA and DBA degrees from Indiana University and a bachelor's degree from Shippensburg University. He is a CPA and a member of the Financial Executives Institute, the Institute of Management Accounting, and the American Accounting Association.
At Michigan State University, Professor Sollenberger has served as Chairperson of the accounting and finance faculties and as Associate Dean for MBA Programs. Over the years, he has served as a consultant to CPA firms, governmental units, professional associations, and industrial firms. He has taught at Indiana University, University of Southern California, and in the People's Republic of China. He has led numerous management study groups to Europe, Japan, Korea, and the PRC.
His teaching experience spans all levels of accounting instruction from introductory courses, to doctoral research seminars, and to executive manager seminars. He taught managerial accounting to executive MBA students and to undergraduates in large lectures and via live instructional television. Outside the university, Professor Sollenberger has taught for over twenty years in a wide variety of banking and credit union financial management schools. He has taught many continuing education programs. Known for his energetic, humorous, and participatory teaching style, he has received numerous awards for his teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has also served as treasurer for several state wide political campaigns.
Professor Sollenberger has written 10 books and over 20 articles dealing with management information systems, cost analysis, financial institution management, and management reporting systems.
