Biography

Brigham Young University - Accounting

Robert J. Smith Professor & Associate Director of the Brigham Young University School of Accountancy
Higher Education
Bill
Tayler
Provo, Utah
Bill is the Robert J. Smith Professor of Accountancy in Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Business, and one of the top ranked accounting schools in the world. He specializes in performance measurement, the assignment of decision rights, incentive compensation, and cost management, especially as these concepts relate to the healthcare industry.

Bill is also an expert in judgment and decision making, the balanced scorecard, revenue and cost variance analysis, standard costing, subjective performance evaluation, activity-based costing, joint revenue and cost allocation, process costing, inventory management, cost-volume-profit analysis, overhead allocation, and capital budgeting.

In addition to Brigham Young University, Bill has taught at Cornell University and Emory University. He has a Ph.D. and a masters degree in Management, as well as an undergraduate and a masters degree in accounting. Bill is a Certified Management Accountant and has received numerous research and teaching awards. His work is published in top accounting, finance, and healthcare journals, and he currently serves on the editorial boards of three top research journals.