Letter From the Editor

• Author: Jim Edwards
• Published date: 01 September 2015
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/jcaf.22091
• Date: 01 September 2015

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© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com).

DOI 10.1002/jcaf.22091

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Letter From the Editor

Dear JCAF Reader,

Two outstanding people

have been added to the Edito-

rial Advisory Board of JCAF.

The first is Tom Pryor, presi-

dent of Integrated Cost Man-

agement Systems, Inc. (ICMS).

Tom helps family‐owned busi-

nesses create and implement

leadership transition. He is a

certified Family Business Advi-

sor and an entrepreneur since

1988, when he founded ICMS,

Inc., a Denton, Texas–based

consulting firm. Tom’s career

includes six years as director

of the University of Texas at

Arlington’s Small Business

Development Center and 19

years of financial management

with General Motors, Johnson

& Johnson, and Motorola.

Tom was the focus of a

BusinessWeek magazine 1988

cover story featuring activity‐

based costing, has authored

five books, written hundreds

of blogs, teaches at several

universities, and provides ser-

vices for Baylor’s Institute for

Family Business. Tom’s pas-

sions are reading books—eight

so far in 2015—creating new

products such as his BullsEye

one‐page strategic plan pro-

cess, and making the complex

simple. Tom has been hap-

pily married for 46 years and

is debt free, both consistent

with hislife verse and favorite

proverb: Success is not logical.

Hecan be reached at

TomPryor@icms.net.

The other new member of

the Editorial Advisory Board

is Dr. Gregory L. Prescott.

He is an Assistant Professor

of Accounting in the Mitch-

ell College of Business at the

University of South Alabama

in Mobile. He is a CPA (Ala-

bama), CMA, CGMA, and

CFM and earned his DBA

from Kennesaw State Uni-

versity in 2014. He teaches

financial accounting at the

undergraduate and graduate

levels. He brings 25 years in

commercial banking in credit

risk management to JCAF. He

has been a faculty member of

the Alabama Banking School

since 1998. Professor Prescott

has published several articles

in JCAF as well as articles in

the CPA Journal and Strategic

Finance. His research interests

include the impact of newly

enacted financial accounting

standards and corporate gov-

ernance issues. For many years

he has observed how account-

ing standards impact corpo-

rate banking relationships.

One of his professional goals

is to communicate the findings

of recent academic research

that might be of interest to

corporate accounting and

finance executives in a

practical manner. He may

be reached at gprescot@

southalabama.edu.

The continuing member of

the Editorial Advisory Board is

Caroline D. Strobel. Caroline

is a CPA and a Distinguished

Professor Emeritus in the

Darla Moore School of Busi-

ness at the University of South

Carolina in Columbia. She has

published many articles about

taxation in various journals

and has served on the Advisory

Committee to the Director of

the IRS of the United States.

Caroline writes a column for

JCAF. She can be reached at

strobel@moore.sc.edu.

JCAF is now providing

“independent double‐blind

reviews” for all submissions

by authors who select this

option. Of course, this option

will require more time for the

process to be completed. All

articles that go through the

independent review process will

be labeled accordingly when

published. We will continue

to provide editorial reviews by

staff for those not requiring

independent peer evaluations.

In addition, we will continue

to commission articles on an

opportunity basis. We want to