Dr. Anthony Catanach Jr. is a professor in the School of Business at Villanova University, an adjunct professor in the Villanova University School of Law, and a visiting professor at INSEAD in France. His teaching and research interests relate primarily to business risk management, financial statement analysis, and earnings management issues. He obtained his undergraduate and masters degrees from the University of New Mexico and his Ph.D. from Arizona State University. Dr. Catanach has been a Certified Public Accountant licensed to practice in the State of New Mexico since 1980 and a Certified Management Accountant since 1991. His professional experience includes five years as an audit manager with KPMG and six years in the banking industry. While in public accounting, he provided auditing, tax, and consulting services to the financial services industry. Upon moving to the banking industry, Dr. Catanach worked as a funds management officer, chief financial officer, and chief operating officer for several large bank holding companies. He has delivered executive programs for numerous professional, private, and public organizations both in the United States and Europe, and currently serves as a national instructor for several global professional services firms. Dr. Catanach is a Pew Scholar and Carnegie Fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He also has received numerous awards for his publication, teaching, and curriculum innovation efforts. Dr. Catanach has authored over fifty journal articles on a variety of accounting, finance, and management issues, as well as several business education texts, and is currently co-editor of Advances in Accounting Education.