John M. Brausch, CMA, CFM, CPA
IMA Chair-Elect

John M. Brausch is Chair-Elect of IMA’s National Board for the 2008-2009 fiscal year. He is also chair of IMA’s Planning and Development Committee. Mr. Brausch is vice president-property controller for Edens and Avant, the nation's largest private developer and owner of retail shopping centers.

Mr. Brausch currently serves as a member of the IMA National Board and served as chair of the Performance Oversight and Audit committee and as a member of the Governance Committee. In line with his commitment to the CMA certification program, he currently serves as chair, and previously served as a regent, of the ICMA Board of Regents and was a member of the Exam Review Committee. Prior to and concurrent with his national IMA service, he served as an officer in several Chapter and Council positions for IMA.

Mr. Brausch is the author of “Selling Activity Based Costing," "The Trials and Travails of State Tax Policy," and "Who's Accounting for the Cost of Capacity?," co-written with Dr. Tom Taylor of Wake Forest University. He is also the author of "Target Costing for Profit Enhancement," which won the Lybrand Medal for its outstanding contribution to accounting literature from IMA, and appeared in the November 1994 edition of Management Accounting. This article was also selected by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) as an Article of Merit and is included in the book, Activity Based Management in Action. Mr. Brausch’s work is referenced in the Canadian Chartered Accountants and IMA's pronouncement on Implementing Activity Based Costing.

Mr. Brausch is a graduate of The Citadel in Charleston, SC and holds an MBA from the University of Montana. Mr. Brausch, his wife Pennie, and daughter Haley live in Columbia, SC.

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