Peter C. Brewer teaches in the Department of Accountancy at Wake Forest University. Prior to joining the faculty at Wake Forest, he was an accounting professor at Miami University for 19 years. He holds a BS degree in accounting from Penn State University, an MS degree in accounting from the University of Virginia, and a PhD from the University of Tennessee. He has published more than 40 articles in a variety of journals including Management Accounting Research; the Journal of Information Systems; Cost Management; Strategic Finance; the Journal of Accountancy; Issues in Accounting Education; and the Journal of Business Logistics. Professor Brewer has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting Education and Issues in Accounting Education. His article "Putting Strategy into the Balanced Scorecard" won the 2003 International Federation of Accountants' Articles of Merit competition, and his articles "Using Six Sigma to Improve the Finance Function" and "Lean Accounting: What's It All About?" were awarded the Institute of Management Accountants' Lybrand Gold and Silver Medals in 2005 and 2006. He has received Miami University's Richard T.

Farmer School of Business Teaching Excellence Award. Professor Brewer and his wife own a Howdy Homemade Ice Cream shop in Asheville, North Carolina (www.howdyavl.com). Howdy Homemade's highest priority is recruiting, training, retaining, and promoting its employees--the majority of whom have intellectual and developmental disabilities. The company's employees "pay it forward" by serving all members of their community and inspiring all of us to realize the potential in each of us.