Professor Bryan holds an undergraduate degree from UNC-Chapel Hill, an MBA from Baruch College, CUNY, and a doctorate in accounting from New York University's Stern School of Business. He has been a tenured faculty member at Baruch College, CUNY and at Wake Forest University's Babcock Graduate School of Management. Currently, he is a tenured full professor at Fordham University. He has received numerous academic honors, including Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma, H. Beck Memorial Award, Beta Alpha Psi, and Beta Gamma Sigma. He has also received teaching honors from all three institutions, including the Kienzle award (from Wake Forest), which alumni award to the faculty member who most benefited their careers. He has published in a wide range of academic and practitioner journals, including The Accounting Review, the Journal of Business, the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, Financial Management, and the CPA Journal. Professor Bryan has conducted accounting classes both to preparer-oriented audiences and user-oriented audiences, and he has consulted on numerous curricular design projects to make accounting more user-oriented. In addition to his university positions, he has taught at various domestic and international financial institutions for over a decade, as well as at several prominent law firms and multinational corporations. Aside from his faculty positions in the U.S., he has also conducted courses in Vienna, Austria and Frankfurt, Germany.