James Kirby has held senior positions on the Australian Financial Review, the Australian, Business and Finance in Dublin and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. A veteran of reporting on and analysing Australian corporations, he wrote for Business Review Weekly before co-founding Eureka Report. He has written several business books, including biographies of Janine Allis, Gerry Harvey and Richard Pratt, and was a contributor to Investing for Australians All-in-One For Dummies. James is also a columnist on the Sunday Age.

Barbara Drury is a personal finance and business writer for publications in Australia and overseas. She is a regular contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, and writes for a number of financial newsletters and corporate publications. She is the author of Personal Finance For Dummies and Sorting Out Your Finances For Dummies, Australian Edition, a contributor to Investing for Australians All-in-One For Dummies and co-author of The Fairfax Experience: What the Management Texts Didn't Teach Me with Fred Hilmer, also published by Wiley. Barbara began her career in journalism more than 20 years ago as a staff writer for publications including the Australian Financial Review, the Australian and the Sun newspaper in Sydney. These days Barbara works from her home office on the New South Wales north coast. When she's not writing, she can be spotted on the sidelines at junior soccer or being dragged along the beach by a hyperactive labrador.