He has a doctorate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a certified public accountant and a member of the Wisconsin Institute of CPAs. He received the Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Research Award from the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. He is a member of the Financial Management Committee of the AHLA. He appreciates the help of his sub-committee colleagues Cindy Braak, Henry Freire, Chris Garland, Brad Garner, Alessandro Grassivaro, and George Gudgeon, as well as Robert Mandelbaum and Raymond Schmidgall.