About the Authors

John A. Tracy (Boulder, Colorado) is Professor of Accounting, Emeritus, at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Before his 35-year tenure at Boulder, he was on the business faculty for 4 years at the University of California at Berkeley. Early in his career, he was a staff accountant with Ernst & Young. John is the author of several books on accounting and finance, including The Fast Forward MBA in Finance and Accounting Workbook For Dummies. His son, Tage C. Tracy, joined him as coauthor on How to Read a Financial Report, now in its 8th edition. John and Tage have also coauthored Cash Flow For Dummies and Small Business Financial Management Kit For Dummies. John received his BSC degree from Creighton University. He earned his MBA and PhD degrees at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He is a CPA (inactive status) in Colorado.

Mary Ann Anderson is an operations consultant and an adjunct professor in operations management at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business. She has served as the faculty advisor for the Supply Chain Management and Engineering route to business majors and teaches numerous courses, ranging from manufacturing and service operations management to project management to supply chain strategy and logistics, as well as being an instructor in the Master of Science in Technology Commercialization program. She received a master’s in engineering, concentrating in operations engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...

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