is Professor of Accounting, Emeritus, in the College of Business and Administration at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Before his 35–year tenure at Boulder he was on the business faculty for 4 years at the University of California in Berkeley. He has served as staff accountant at Ernst & Young and is the author of several books on accounting, including
The Fast Forward MBA in Finance
and
How To Read a Financial Report . Dr Tracy received his MBA and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin and is a CPA in Colorado.
Colin Barrow
is Head of the Enterprise Group at Cranfield School of Management, where he teaches entrepreneurship on the MBA and other programmes. He is also a visiting professor at business schools in the US, Asia, France, and Austria. His books on entrepreneurship and small business have been translated into 15 languages including Russian and Chinese. He worked with Microsoft to incorporate the business planning model used in his teaching programmes into the software program, Microsoft Business Planner, now bundled with Office. He is a regular contributor to newspapers, periodicals, and academic journals such as
The Financial Times ,
The Guardian ,
Management Today , and the
International Small Business Journal .
Thousands of students have passed through Colin’s start–up and business growth programmes, raising millions in new capital and going on to run successful and thriving enterprises. He is a non–executive director of two venture capital funds, on the board of several small businesses, and serves on a number of Government Task Forces.