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Messier, William F., author. Auditing & assurance services : a systematic approach / William F. Messier, Jr., Steven M. Glover, Douglas F. Prawitt.—Tenth edition. pages cm ISBN 978-0-07-773250-9 (alk. paper) 1. Auditing. I. Glover, Steven M., 1963- author. II. Prawitt, Douglas F. author. III. Title. IV. Title: Auditing and assurance services. HF5667.M46 2016 657’.45–dc23 2015028419
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William F. Messier, Jr. holds the Kenneth and Tracy Knauss Endowed Chair in Account- ing at the Department of Accounting, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Accounting, Auditing and Law at the Norwegian School of Economics. Professor Messier holds a B.B.A. from Siena College, an M.S. from Clarkson University, and an M.B.A. and D.B.A. from Indiana University. He is a CPA in Florida and has held faculty positions at the University of Florida (Price Waterhouse Professor) and Georgia State University (Deloitte & Touche Professor). Professor Messier was a visiting faculty member at SDA Bocconi in Milan and the Universities of Luxembourg and Michigan. Professor Messier served as the Academic Member of the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board and as Chair of the AICPA’s International Auditing Standards Subcommittee. He is a past editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory and formerly President of the Audit- ing Section of the American Accounting Association. Professor Messier was the recipient of the American Accounting Association’s Outstanding Accounting Educator Award (2015), AICPA’s Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award (2012), AAA Audit- ing Section’s Outstanding Educator Award (2009) and the Distinguished Service in Auditing Award (2008). In 2011, Professor Messier was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Nor- wegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Professor Messier has also served as an expert witness in audit litigation cases.
Professor Steven M. Glover is the K. Fred Skousen Professor and Associate Dean of the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University. Professor Glover is a CPA in Utah and holds a PhD and BS from the University of Washington and an AA in Business from BYU – Idaho. He previously worked as an auditor for KPMG LLP and as a director in the national office of PwC LLP. Professor Glover is currently serving on the AICPA Auditing Standards Board and has served on the audit committee of a nonprofit organization. He has served on the board of advisors for technology companies and he actively consults with public companies and public accounting firms. He has also served as an expert witness. Professor Glover is a past President of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association and he has been on auditing-related task forces of the AICPA. Professor Glover is or has served on the editorial boards of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, The Accounting Review, Current Issues in Auditing, and the review board of the AAA/CAQ Access to Audit Personnel Program. He has authored or coauthored over 40 articles and books primarily focused in the areas of auditor decision making, audit education, and audit practice. Together with Professor Prawitt and KPMG, LLP, he co-authored an award-winning monograph designed to acceler- ate the professional judgment of auditors and auditing students, as well as a monograph on professional skepticism commissioned by the Standards Working Group of the GPPC, an international consortium of the six largest public accounting network firms.
Professor Douglas F. Prawitt is the Glen Ardis Professor of Accountancy at the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University. Professor Prawitt is a CPA in Utah. He holds a PhD from the University of Arizona, and BS and MAcc degrees from Brigham Young University. Professor Prawitt was awarded the Marriott School’s Teaching Excellence and Outstanding Researcher awards in 1998 and 2000. He received the Merrill J. Bateman Student Choice Teaching Award in 2002, BYU’s Wesley P. Lloyd Award for Distinction in Graduate Education in 2006, and the American Accounting Association’s Deloitte/Wildman Award in 2013.
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