Steven Bragg, CPA, is one of the top-selling and most prolific accounting authors in the world. He is the author of more than 60 business books, including the best sellers Cost Accounting Fundamentals, The CFO Guidebook, Closing the Books, Payroll Management, and The GAAP Guidebook. Various books have been translated into Arabic, Azerbaijani, Indonesian, Korean, Mongolian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Steve has also been interviewed by Business Week, CFO magazine, Fox News, and Inc. He has been the CFO or controller of both public and private companies, and has been a consulting manager with Ernst & Young and an auditor with Deloitte & Touche. He holds an MBA from Babson College, a Master of Finance degree from Bentley College, and a BA from the University of Maine. Steve also manages  the Accounting Best Practices podcast.

Away from work, Steve has been a two-time president of the Colorado Mountain Club, and has climbed five of the seven continental high points, the 100 highest peaks in Colorado, the 100 highest peaks in New England, and all 50 of the state high points of the United States. He has also solo mountain biked the 483-mile Colorado Trail - both ways. He is an expert alpine skier (shown at left backcountry skiing in 2011), trail running author of Run the Rockies, and a PADI-certified Master Diver (various photo, video, and written adventure documentaries are listed below). He is married and has two daughters. Neither daughter shows any inclination to enter the accounting field.