It's a great honor to receive a lifetime achievement award from the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) for contributions to management accounting. Thank you to Joe Fisher and his committee for nominating, and Teresa Libby for presenting this award here today. Thank you to the section president, Naomi Soderstrom, who called me from Australia to inform me that I had won this award. And thank you to the AICPA for its generous support and making this award possible.
Thank you to my colleagues at the University of California, Davis; among them are Paul Griffin, Brad Barber, Don Palmer, Chih-Ling Tsai, and, especially, to Dan Weiss and Shannon Anderson. I am especially thankful to my friends in accounting, Peter Easton, Tom Stober, Bill Lanen, Jake Thomas, and John Lyon. Thank you to my wife, Kathleen Donelan-Maher, who was an incredible source of support and inspiration.
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