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Biographical information

Frank H. Selto is Professor of Accounting at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder, located in Boulder, Colorado USA. He also was a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia for six years. He teaches and conducts research in the area of cost management and control. His current interests focus on: (1) Strategic performance management systems and (2) management control of global outsourcing. He is beginning a new advanced management accounting text with co-authors Tom Groot and Carsten Rohde.

Professor Selto holds MBA and PhD degrees in accounting from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA and BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering, from Gonzaga University and the University of Utah, respectively. He has worked in industry as a mechanical engineer and has consulted with numerous organizations in the areas of management controls, activity-based management and performance measurement. His current interests and efforts are applied to field research studies of firms that are designing and implementing strategic controls and balanced scorecard models of production and business processes.

Abstracts of selected research papers are available in the section of this homepage labeled Research Activities.

Syllabi and current lecture notes for the courses that Professor Selto currently teaches are in the section labeled Course Syllabi.

I love my teaching and research career, but here are several passions. And some others.

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For comments or questions on my research and classes, please send e-mail to Frank.Selto@Colorado.edu

This page, all subsidiary pages, and accessible files are Copyright © 2009 by Frank H. Selto, Boulder, Colorado, USA. All these materials may be reproduced in electronic or print form for personal or educational use. Commercial uses of this information are prohibited without my prior, written consent.

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Research Activities

I will periodically revise selected recent publications, working papers, and work in process. My current work is based in part on field observation, archival data, and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data. Selected articles and papers are:

• "Communicating Strategy: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard" with M. Malina, 2001. Journal of Management Accounting Research v. 13: 47-90.
• “New Directions in Management Accounting Research: Insights from Practice.” With S. Widener. 2004. Advances in Management Accounting: 1-36.
• “Choice and Change of Measures in Performance Measurement Models.” With M. Malina. 2004. Management Accounting Research, 15(4): 441-69.
• “Building Causal Performance Models from Expert Knowledge.” With M. Abernethy, M. Horne, A. Lillis, M. Malina. Management Accounting Research, 2005 16(2): 135-156. Winner of the 2005 David Solomons Prize.
• “Relations among measures, result control, and performance measurement models” With M. Malina and H. Norreklit. 2007. Contemporary Accounting Research. Fall: 935 – 982.
• “Management control of global outsourcing.” With T. Groot and R. Montealegre. 2009. Working paper not quite ready for wide circulation.

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Course Syllabi and Lecture Notes

Here are some interactive exercises that I developed for my cost management classes. Apologies to advanced programmers: These exercises are a bit primitive, but I like them. Cost Management Exercises

ACCT 3320: Cost Management (old)

ACCT 5330: Advanced Cost Management (old)

BCOR 2000: Accounting and Financial Analysis (old)

CURISES Fall 2009

Some early video lectures: Budgets part 1; Budgets part 2

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