Tim Berry wrote the CPA's Guide to Business Planning, published in 1998 by Harcourt Brace Professional Publishing. His other books on business planning with spreadsheets were published in the 1980s by Dow-Jones-Irwin, Microtext/McGraw-Hill, and Hayden Books. His business software has been published by Palo Alto Software and M&T Publishing. He has been a professional business planner since 1974, as an employee of Business International and vice president of Creative Strategies, as a consultant to Apple Computer, as a member of the board of directors of Borland International, and as president and founder of Palo Alto Software. He has given seminars on business planning in 10 countries on three continents.
Berry holds a Stanford MBA degree, an MA with honors from the University of Oregon, and a BA magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame.