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Leon B. Hoshower, Ph. D., C.P.A., C.M.A, is a Professor of Accountancy at Ohio University. His research and teaching interests include performance measurement and cost control, ABC costing, and accounting education. Professor Hoshower earned his Ph.D. at Michigan State University in 1982. He was Assistant Professor at Penn State for six years before joining the faculty at Ohio University in 1988. He has over 50 published works, some of which have appeared in Management Accounting, Journal of Cost Management, Financial Executive, and Issues in Accounting Education. His publications have received three Outstanding Manuscript awards from Institute of Management Accountants and a Valley Forge Honor Certificate for “excellence in Economic Education” from Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge. His other awards and honors include Most Valuable Member of the Year presented by the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants and he served as mentor to Anthony Ciaffoni, whose honors thesis which won first place in the Association of Chartered Accountants’ nationwide student manuscript contest. Professor Hoshower has conducted numerous seminars for the American Accounting Association and for the Institute of Management Accountants.