Managerial: Accounting

Acknowledgments

A project of this magnitude cannot be completed solely by the authors listed on the book's cover. We want to thank our colleagues at Baylor University who have supported our work on this project, particularly Scott Bryant, who assisted in classroom testing the book's early drafts for several semesters, and Gia Chevis, who read the entire manuscript and provided helpful comments. Our students also deserve thanks for persevering through early drafts and numerous typographical errors. We are grateful to Baylor University student Colton Kvapil, who after learning managerial accounting from an early draft agreed to design our PowerPoint templates. Dr. Lorynn Divita, associate professor of fashion merchandising at Baylor University, provided us with a crash course on the textile industry, helping us to understand C&C Sports' supply chain. A special thanks is due to Bill Sturgeon, Armando DeLeon, and all the other employees of Southland Athletic Manufacturing Company in Terrell, Texas for showing us their operations and agreeing to be photographed for the book.

We have been fortunate to have an extraordinary team from John Wiley & Sons to guide us through the process of bringing this book to print. This book would never have gotten off the ground without the early guidance of Mark Bonadeo, former Accounting Editor at Wiley. Senior Development Editor Mary O'Sullivan kept us moving forward throughout the editorial process, and line editor Elizabeth Morgan read every word ...