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EILON Samuel, is Professor and Head of the Department of Management Science at Imperial College, London, also Editor of Omega. Address for correspondence: Department of Management Science, Imperial College of Science and Technology, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2BX, England.

FINDLAY, M Chapman, received his PhD from the University of Texas and is Associate Professor of Finance at McGill University and co-author of An Integrated Analysis for Managerial Finance (Prentice-Hall, 1970) and Investment ,4nalysis (Prentice-Hall, 1974), as well as several articles in professional journals. Address for correspondence: Department of Finance & Business Economics, School of Business Administration, University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles, California 90007, U.S.A.

GOLD, Bela, currently Timken Professor of Industrial Economics, Chairman of the Depart- ment of Economics, and Director of the Research Program in Industrial Economics at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; previously Professor of Industrial Economics in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh, Professorial Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor in the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. His books include Explorations in Managerial Economics (1971) and Foundations of Productivity Analysis (1955). Address for correspondence: Department of Economics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, U.S.A.

HOPE, Anthony JB, qualified as a chartered accountant in 1968. Since that date he has undertaken postgraduate courses in accounting at the University of Liverpool and London, and is currently Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Manchester, England. His research interests include the evaluation of methods of reporting business performance and corporate taxation. Address for correspondence: Department of Accounting and Business Finance, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, England.

JONES, HG, graduated with first class honours in Physics (Wales) and with an upper second in Engineering (London). Following a period of technical development at Pilkington Bros. he joined the Steel Company of Wales around 1951 where he was possibly the first OR Manager in the British Steel Industry (with the exception of the British Iron and Steel Research Association). For the last ten years he was with Hiram Walker & Sons Ltd. (Scotland), a member of the second largest distilling group in the world. He retired from industry in 1974 and became the Esm6e Fairbairn Senior Research Fellow in Capital Investment in the University of Strathclyde. Address for correspondence: Operational Research Centre, University of Strathclyde, Balmanno House, Rottonrow, Glasgow G4 0NG, Scotland.

JORDAN, Ronald J, received his PhD from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration and he was on the faculties of New York University and the Uni- versity of Connecticut. He served as Associate Editor of The Financial Review, and currently serves on the Board of Reviewers of Financial Management. Address for correspondence: Sigal, Trager, Gurne & Kaufman, PO Box 17308, West Hartford, Connecticut 06117, U.S.A.

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MANLEY, Peter, graduated from University College, London, with an honours degree in Geography and Economics and later qualified as a Chartered Accountant. After some years in the steel and glass industries, he was appointed Lecturer in Accountancy and Fin- ancial Adminstrat ion at the University of Sheffield. In 1969 be became Lecturer in Finance at Durham University Business School. Address for correspondence: Durham University Business School, Palmers Garth, Hallgarth Street. Durham DHI 3LB, England.

MARKLAND, Robert E, is an Associate Professor--Management Science and a Research Fellow of the Center of Community and Metropolitan Studies, at the University of Missouri - -St . Louis. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri--Rolla, and a Master's degree and Doctor 's degree in business administrat ion from Washington Uni- versity, where he was a Ford Foundat ion Fellow. He has served as an operations research consultant to the Ralston Purina Company, the Rand Corporation, the Diebold Grou p, and to other organizations. Address for correspondence: University of Missouri--St . Louis, School of Business Administration. 8001 Natural Bridge Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63121, U.S.A.

NEWETT, Robert J, is a Corporate Consultant in Management Science for the Ralston Purina Company. He holds a BA in mathematics from St. Joseph's College (Indiana) and an MA in mathematics from the University of Illinois. He has had over ten years of experience in the field of operations research. He has published articles in Management Science, Interfaces, and the Summer Simulation Conference Proceedings, He is a member of the Insti- tute of Management Sciences. Address for correspondence: C/o Professor RE Markland, as above.

RADFORD, K J , received undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge. He worked as a defence research scientist in Canada from 1953 to 1964 and from 1964 to 1968 he directed the Government of Canada 's Computer Service Bureau. His book Information S.vstems in Management (Reston: a division of Prentice-Hall, 1973) is a practical description of aspects of the design and implementation of a management information system. He is at present teaching courses in decision analysis, operational research and computer-based information systems at the University of Waterloo. His most recent book, Managerial Decision Making (Reston) was published early in 1975. Address for correspondence: Depar tment of Management Science, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G I, Canada.

SCAPENS, Robert W, qualified as a chartered accountant in 1968 and in 1970 was awarded a Teaching Fellowship at the University of Manchester, England where he later became Lecturer, His research interests include inflation accounting and he is author of Treatment of Inflation in Published Accounts of Companies in Overseas Countries, published by the Research Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accounts in England and Wales. Address for correspondence: Depar tment of Accounting and Business Finance, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, England.

SOESAN, Judith, graduated from the University of Oxford in 1968 with an Honours Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She then joined the Operational Research Depar tment of the British Iron and Steel Research Association as a Graduate Apprentice in Operational Research, and took an MSc in Operational Research at Imperial College, London. She was then appointed British Oxygen Research Fellow in Management Science and worked on productivity measurement until 1974 when she joined Vickers Ltd. Address for correspondence: Financial Evaluation Department, Vickers Ltd., Millbank Tower, Millbank, London SWI, England.

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WHITNIORE, GA, is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Management at McGill Univer- s ity, Montreal. He gained a BSc at the University of Manitoba and an MS and PhD in Business, Administrat ion at the University of Minnesota. His current and past research interests include applications of mathematics, statistics and, particularly, decision theory in economics, finance and health administrat ion. He is the author of a number of articles irt these areas and is a coauthor of the basic statistics text, Fundamental Statistics for Business and Econo- mics. Address for correspondence: Faculty of Management, 1001 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1G5.

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