About

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.