Professor Monte Swain is the Deloitte Professor at the Brigham Young University School of Accountancy where he has researched and taught management accounting since 1991. He is published in a number of scholarly and practitioner journals and is currently researching strategic performance measurement models and information presentation effects in balanced scorecards. In addition, he is an author of cases and textbooks in management accounting and writes and consults on the effective use of strategic measurement systems in organizations. Professor Swain took an academic leave from BYU in 1999 to serve as the Chief Financial Officer for Authorize.Net (an e-commerce payment processing service).In 2016, IMA recognized Professor Swain with the IMA Brummet Distinguished Award for Management Accounting Educators. In 2021, BYU awarded him the MBA Core Professor of the Year. He is the senior author of the Wiley CMA Exam Prep system.

Dr. Julie Harrison is an associate professor in the Department of Accounting & Finance at the University of Auckland Business School in New Zealand. Prior to joining academia, she worked as a transfer pricing advisor in public practice. She has published widely in academic and practitioner journals in the areas of revenue management, performance measurement, data envelopment analysis, transfer pricing and integrated reporting. Julie is the editor-in-chief of the Pacific Accounting Review and is a fellow (FCA) of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.