William Maguire is Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Management Accounting at the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania. William holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Certificate in the Theory of Accountancy from the University of Natal at Durban, a Master of Business Leadership from the University of South Africa and a PhD from the University of Cape Town. He is a chartered accountant with more than 40 years of experience as an accounting academic, prior to which he worked in professional accounting, commerce and industry.

He has held posts at nine tertiary institutions, including four visiting appointments. William’s teaching, research and consulting activities span strategy, capacity management, management control systems, and revenue and costing systems at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

He has published in a number of journals, including Accounting & Finance, Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Journal of Cost Management, Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, Managerial Auditing Journal, South African Journal of Accounting Research and South African Journal of Business Management, and has presented at many conferences, both academic- and practitioner-oriented. He has co-authored two other textbooks and a book on revenue management. William received an award for innovation in teaching at the University of Auckland and is a past editor of the New Zealand Journal of Applied Business Research.