Eric W. Noreen (B.A. University of Washington, M.B.A. and Ph.D. Stanford University) is the Ac-counting Circle Professor of Accounting, Fox School of Business, Temple University. He has taught at INSEAD in France and the Hong Kong Institute of Science and Technology. An award-winning certified management accountant, he has served as associate editor of The Accounting Review and the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and has published his research in important accounting journals. He has also won a number of awards from students for his teach-ing.