Jan Bell received her Ph.D. from UCLA and holds a CPA certificate from Tennessee where she earned her bachelor’s degree and worked for KPMG.  She taught at Columbia University, Santa Clara University, and California State University Northridge (CSUN.) She has been actively involved in administration in the past several years, working on AACSB accreditation, college strategic planning, and learning outcomes assessment for accounting, as well as chairing the Accounting and IS Department at CSUN.  Jan’s expertise is in strategic management accounting and financial reporting.  She is the coauthor of a modular series, Management Accounting, a Strategic Focus, which won the American Accounting Association’s and the Institute of Management Accountant’s 1996 award for innovation in management accounting education.  She is the coauthor of several articles and books on Target Costing, including a book, Hitting the Target, published in 2005.  She writes interdisciplinary cases to be used in the classroom; many of these have been published. Currently, she is working with Professor Shahid Ansari on a strategic management accounting text.  Jan is active in CAM-I, the Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing International, a think tank of industry leaders and academic researchers. Jan also won the award for “Outstanding Professor” for her teaching while a member of the CSUN faculty.