Dr. Shahid L. Ansari received his Ph.D. in Accounting and Organizational Behavior from Columbia University. Before joining CSUN, he taught graduate, undergraduate, doctoral and executive education courses at UCLA, NYU, and the Naval Postgraduate School. He has also been a Visiting Professor at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France and the Ernst & Young Visiting Scholar at Macquarie University, Australia. Dr. Ansari has won several awards and honors for distinguished teaching during his career. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the area of the behavioral and cultural aspects of cost and management accounting, strategy and control. Dr. Ansari currently serves as the Associate Editor for the Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal.