Gerald E. Whittenburg is a professor of accounting and taxation at San Diego State University. He received his
Ph.D. from the University of Houston. Dr. Whittenburg’s professional designations include Certified Public Accountant,
Certified Management Accountant, and Enrolled Agent. Dr. Whittenburg’s research interests have focused on corporate and
individual taxation, as well as the tax research process. His articles on these and other topics have appeared in such journals as
the Accounting Review, Advances in Taxation, Journal of Taxation, Taxation for Accountants, Taxes, Management Accounting, Practical
Tax Strategies, Journal of Taxation of Investments, Valuation Strategies, Journal of Small Business Strategy, Journal of Taxation of Financial
Institutions, The Tax Adviser, Tax Notes, Real Estate Accounting and Taxation, and Journal of Accounting Education. Dr. Whittenburg
has authored several tax textbooks, including Income Tax Fundamentals, California Income Tax Fundamentals, and Federal Tax
Research. Dr. Whittenburg’s books are used in more than 300 colleges and universities throughout the United States. He
received a California State University (CSU) Trustee’s Outstanding Faculty Award in 1991. This award was competitive across
the entire 20-campus CSU system. Dr. Whittenburg was a visiting scholar at the University of Adelaide (Australia) in 1999 and
2005. In 2003, he received a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant at the Academy of Tax Services of Ukraine. While in Ukraine, he
lectured students and conferred with the faculty and staff on income taxation in the United States.
Martha Altus-Buller is a CPA with her own tax practice in San Diego, California. She attended Reed College in
Portland, Oregon, for two years, and holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of California at San Diego and an MS in
Accounting from San Diego State University. She won a Sells award for scoring among the top in the country on the May 1983
CPA exam. Her practical experience includes work as a tax manager for Arthur Young, now Ernst & Young, one of the (then)
Big 8 accounting firms, and more than 25 years of full-time practice in tax accounting.
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Roberto Alas, St. Augustine College
Anna Alexander, Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute
Terry Anderson, Golden West College
Graham Bauerle, Community College of Vermont
Edward Bealle, Delgado Community College - City Park
Allen Beaton, Minnesota State Community and Technical College
Margaret Black, San Jacinto College North
Felicia Duque Black, Van Nuys, CA
James Boland, Columbia College
Jerold Braun, Daytona State College
Sharon J. Brown, Randolph Community College
Earl B. Butler, Broward College
Joe Chandler III, Forsyth Technical Community College
Amy Chataginer, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Steven Christian, Jackson Community College
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Michelle Grant, Bossier Parish Community College
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