Billie Cunningham is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Accountancy at the University of Missouri--Columbia (MU). She has received several awards for outstanding teaching, including the 1995 Exemplary Accounting Educator Award from the Missouri Association of Accounting Educators. She received her B.B.A., M.B.A. and PhD. from the University of North Texas. Professor Cunningham has conducted numerous workshops around the country on the use of writing exercises in accounting classes and on incorporating creative and critical thinking strategies into the accounting classroom. She was a coauthor of three previous books and has published numerous articles in professional journals including Journal of Accounting Education, Issues in Accounting Education and Accounting Education: A Journal of Theory, Practice and Research. Professor Cunningham is the faculty advisor for the Association of Accountancy Students at MU and is a member of the American Accounting Association (AAA), in which she was Chair of the Two-Year College Section and Chair of the Teaching and Curriculum Section. She also served on the AAA Accounting Education Advisory Committee, and as Vice-President and member of the Executive Committee of the AAA.
