Ken Leo, B.Com (Hons), MBA (Qld), AAUQ, ACA, FCPA is Professor of Accounting at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. During his 30 years as an academic, he has taught company accounting to undergraduate and postgraduate students, been a founding member of the Urgent Issues Group, and involved in writing books and monographs for a variety of organisations including CPA Australia, Group of 100 and the Australian Accounting Research Foundation.

John Hoggett, B.Com (Hons), B.Th., MFM (Qld), AAUQ, ACA, FCPA is senior lecturer at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. During his 30 years as an academic, he has taught company accounting and accounting theory to undergraduate and postgraduate students, written books and monographs for a variety of organisations including CPA Australia and Group of 100. and been involved in accounting education with the Curriculum Council of Western Australia.

John Sweeting, BEc, MEc, PhD, CPA, CA is currently a Senior Lecturer in Accountancy at Queensland University of Technology. John's background includes a mixture of academic and business positions. He has taught at Swinburne University of Technology, the University of Central Queensland and has spent time with the National Companies and Securities Commission (now the Australian Securities and Investments Commission). John has also held positions with a large international chartered accounting firm and a large manufacturing/retailing company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. John has written for professional journals, and his main area of research is external reporting and profit forecasts in prospectuses. In addition to running in-house courses for accounting firms, John has also conducted Professional Development courses for CPA Australia and The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. John has also been actively involved in both the CPA Program and the CA Program.

Jennie Radford, BCom, DipEd (Melb), MCom (Curtin), ACA, is currently a Lecturer at Curtin University of Technology. She has co-authored two research monographs published by Group of 100 and the ASCPA. She has also contributed to and co-edited a textbook 'Financial Accounting Issues'. She was for many years employed as an auditor with "Big 5' chartered accounting firms. Jennie has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in her career as an academic. She is a member of the Western Australia Cell of the External Reporting Centre of Excellence (ASCPA).