About the Editors
Roman L. Weil, PhD, CMA, CPA, CFA, is an emeritus faculty member of the Chicago Booth School of Business, retired after 45 years on the faculty there. He is currently visiting professor at the Stern School of Business at NYU and program fellow at Stanford Law School. He is a member of the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
Professor Weil studies financial literacy and corporate governance. His preliminary work suggested, correctly it turned out, that corporate board audit committee members have surprisingly weak financial literacy and that the gains in shareholder wealth accompanying improvement in such financial literacy are both significant and large. He is now recognized as an expert in financial illiteracy.
His approach to teaching emphasizes fundamental understanding of the building blocks in accounting (asset, liability, revenue, and expense) that will enable students to continue learning and understanding as the world of business transactions changes over time. “In 20 years, they'll have to understand new transactions, which haven't been conceived yet, and the accounting for them.”
Professor Weil codirects the Chicago/Stanford/Tuck Directors’ Consortium, which he cofounded. Weil has designed and implemented continuing education programs for partners at the accounting firms of Arthur Andersen and PricewaterhouseCoopers as well as for employees at Goldman Sachs, Montgomery Ward, Merck, and William Blair and for business ...
