viiABOUT THE EDITOR
Frederick D.S. Choi,is the Abraham L. Gitlow Professor of Accounting and Inter-
national Business and Dean of the Undergraduate College at the Stern School of
Business at New York University. He has served as chairman of NYU’s Department
of Accounting, Taxation, and Business Law and its International Business Area and
is former Director of the Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research.
He has lectured at such institutions as the Cranfield School of Management (Eng-
land), I.N.S.E.A.D. (France), University of Washington, Japan America Institute of
Management Science, University of Bocconi (Italy), and the Stockholm School of
Economics (Sweden) and served as a member of the First American Visiting Team to
establish the National Center for Industrial Science and Technology Management
Development in the People’s Republic of China.
Professor Choi has contributed more than 100 pieces to the scholarly and profes-
sional literature including 20 books on the subject of international accounting and fi-
nancial control. The first edition of this Wiley publication, the Handbook of Interna-
tional Accounting, received the Most Outstanding Book Award, having been judged
the best work on law and accounting for 1991 by the American Association of Pub-
lishers. A Fellow of the Academy of International Business, he is a recipient of the
Citibank Excellence in Teaching Award and the American Accounting Association’s
Outstanding International Accounting Educator Award.
Currently serving as co-editor of the specialist journal, The Journal of Interna-
tional Financial Management and Accounting, Professor Choi joined NYU in 1981.