Dale Geiger brings a unique combination of academic study, government management research, and corporate management experience to the problem of improved performance in government. He holds three degrees from MIT and earned his Doctorate of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School after a seventeen-year career that included several significant controllership positions.

Formerly a tenured faculty at California State University and a frequent visiting professor at The George Washington University, Dr. Geiger writes extensively and exclusively on the motivation, role, and development of cost management and managerial cost accounting systems in government. He has researched, trained, and consulted at numerous organizations including the U.S. Army, Air Force, and Navy, the General Accounting Office, the National Academy of Public Administration, the Treasury Department, the Department of Agriculture, the National Forest Service, and the Internal Revenue Service.

Dr. Geiger also servied on the task force that wrote FASAB’s managerial costing standard. He has published a five-part series on managerial cost accounting at the request of the Government Accountants Journal and a book entitled, Winning the Cost War. The Association of Government Accountants recognized Dr. Geiger’s contributions with its National Author’s Awards in 1995 and 2001, its Education and Training Award in 1996, and its Career Contributions to Research Award in 2000.