Marcia Millon Cornett, PhD,is a professor of finance at Southern Illinois Univer-
sity, Carbondale. She has written several articles in the areas of bank performance,
bank regulation, corporate finance, and investments. She has served as an associate
editor for Financial Managementand is currently an associate editor for the Multi-
national Finance Journal.She is a member of the Board of Directors of the South-
ern Illinois University Credit Union.
Aswath Damodaranis a professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at New
York University, and teaches the corporate finance and equity valuation courses in the
MBA program. He has published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analy-
sis, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of
Financial Studies, and has written three books on equity valuation (Damodaran on
Valuation,Investment Valuation,The Dark Side of Valuation) and two on corporate
finance (Corporate Finance: Theory and PracticeandApplied Corporate Finance:
A User’s Manual). He has co-edited a book on investment management with Peter
Bernstein (Investment Management). He was profiled in BusinessWeekas one of the
top 12 business school professors in the United States in 1994.
William E. Decker, CPA,is the senior partner and founder of Pricewaterhouse-
Coopers LLP’s Global Capital Markets Group. He has served on the AICPA’s Inter-
national Practices Task Force and is the author of The Coopers & Lybrand SEC Man-
ual, 7th ed. (John Wiley & Sons, 1997).
Gunter Dufey, DBA(University of Washington, Seattle), is an adjunct professor in
banking and finance at Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Business
School, Singapore. He also serves as a senior advisor with McKinsey and Company,
supporting the corporate governance practice of the firm in Asia.
David K. Eiteman, PhD,is emeritus professor in international finance at the John
E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. He has been a visiting pro-
fessor at the National University of Singapore and the Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology. He is a past president of the Western Finance Association
and the International Trade and Finance Association. He is a co-author of Multina-
tional Business Finance,Fundamentals of Multinational Finance, and Essentials of
Investing.
Edwin J. Elton, PhD,is a Nomura Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Busi-
ness at New York University. Professor Elton has authored or co-authored six books
and over 90 articles, and is a former president of the American Finance Association.
Robert Feinschreiberis an attorney and counselor in Miami. His firm, Feinschreiber
& Associates, concentrates on international transfer pricing. He has written and ed-
ited many books on taxation, including Transfer Pricing Handbook,Transfer Pricing
International: A Country-by-Country Guide, and International Mergers: A Country-
by-Country Tax Guide. He is the editor of Interstate Tax Reportand the founding ed-
itor of the International Tax Journal.
Lisa Filomia-Aktasis a partner in Ernst & Young’s New York Financial Services of-
fice. She leads the On-Call Advisory Services group, which assists with evaluating
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