About the authors

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 has been involved in accounting education with the Curriculum Council of Western Australia.

Lew Edwards is Emeritus Professor of the School of Accounting, Queensland University of Technology. Lew has had a career over 25 years teaching financial and managerial accounting to undergraduate and postgraduate students. He was Head of School (Department) of Accountancy for 18 years. He is a both a chartered accountant and a CPA, and served for many years on education and technical standards committees (both state and national) of the professional accounting bodies. He has also served as a consultant to accounting firms, industry, and government at both national and international levels. Lew is co-author (with John Hoggett) of the best selling Australian accounting texts Financial Accounting in Australia and Accounting in Australia. He has also published (as author and co-author) a wide range of both manual and computerised accounting practice sets.

John Medlin, B.Ec.(Adelaide), M.Ec.(UNE), CA is a lecturer in the School of Accounting and Information Systems at the University of South Australia. John began his career with Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young) in the early 1980s. After a few years practical experience John moved to accounting education where he has lectured in both financial and management accounting, accounting theory, economics and business finance. Since 1998 John has coordinated a general first year accounting subject with an enrolment in excess of 1,500 students each year, eighty percent of whom are non-accounting majors. He has been recognised with teaching awards from the University of South Australia. His research interest is in the area of accounting education and he has presented conference papers and is currently undertaking his PhD in this area.