Dr. Catanach is an associate professor in the School of Business at Villanova University. His consulting and research interests relate primarily to financial statement analysis and reporting, business risk management, and audit market issues. He has previously served on the faculties of the University of Virginia and INSEAD. He obtained his undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of New Mexico and his Ph.D. from Arizona State University. Dr. Catanach has been a licensed Certified Public Accountant since 1980 and a Certified Management Accountant since 1991.

His professional experience includes five years as an audit manager with KPMG and six years in the financial services industry. While in public accounting, he provided auditing, tax, and consulting services to the banking and insurance industries. Subsequently, Dr. Catanach worked as a funds management officer, chief financial officer, and chief operating officer for several large bank holding companies, where he specialized in merger and acquisition transactions. He has delivered executive programs for numerous professional, private, and public organizations in the United States, Europe, and Asia and currently serves as a national instructor for several global professional services firms.

Dr. Catanach is a Pew Scholar and Carnegie Fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He also has received numerous awards for his publication, teaching, and curriculum innovation efforts. Dr. Catanach has authored over sixty articles on a variety of accounting, finance, and management issues, as well as several business education texts, and he is currently co-editor of Advances in Accounting Education.