Charli Budd
Charlene Spoede Budd is a Professor Emeritus from Baylor University, having taught management accounting and project management classes for a number of years. She received her undergraduate degree (accounting major, Summa Cum Laude), and MBA degree from Baylor University (1972 and 1973, respectively) and her PhD from The University of Texas at Austin (1982), where she specialized in the fields of accounting, economics, and finance. She holds the following active professional designations: CPA, CMA, CFM, PMP. In addition, she is certified in all areas of the Theory of Constraints by the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOC-ICO).
Her research typically involves some aspect of Theory of Constraints and has been published primarily in practitioner journals. She has been awarded three Certificates of Merit for articles published in Strategic Finance. She also has singly or co-authored publications in Industrial Marketing Management (special issue on projects), Human Systems Management Journal, Today's CPA, The Counselor, other journals, and many conference proceedings. Charlene has co-authored two accounting text books and she and current co-author, Charles Budd, have published A Practical Guide to Earned Value Project Management (Management Concepts, 2005; second edition, to include a chapter on Critical Chain, to be published in 2009) and Internal Control and Improvement Initiatives (BNA, 2007).
She is active in several professional organizations, including the Financial Executives Institute, Project Management Institute, American Accounting Association and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. In addition, she has been a member of the AICPA's Content Committee and was chair of the Business Environment and Content subcommittee of the AICPA for the past several years, assisting in the development of the new computerized CPA examination. Currently she is chair of the Finance and Metrics Committee of the TOC-ICO.
Most of her time now is devoted to research and writing, but she also is a member of the Board of Directors of a public company and owns a small consulting Company - Budd Management Systems.