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(April 15, 2009) Hughes Changes the Research Impact of Accounting A Look at the Latest Google Scholar Data LSU’s Kirby E. “Skip” Hughes II has yet to set foot as the director of accounting in USM’s JAG and he has already made a huge impact on the CoB’s accounting research portfolio. To show just how, USMNEWS.net reporters compiled the latest CoB ACC Google Scholar (GS) citations data, including Hughes and discarding former CoB accountant James Henderson. Those data are reported in Table 1 below.

(April 22, 2009) Dear Skip: Everyone’s assumption is that your orders from Dean Nail include changing the research culture in Accounting, returning the teaching to the (old days?) level of medal-winning students and first-time passers of the CPA and CMA exams. Part of that mission will be accomplished when you examine the number of accounting practices run out of the first floor of JAG, and the number of and profits of continuing education courses taught out of your soon-to-be office.

(April 23, 2009) Dear Skip: Mary Anderson has a brother named Joe Morgan who is the Vice President for Finance at Southern Miss. Many reports say she has threatened to go to him – and has gone to him – when she does not get her way. Without question she believes you will be sitting in her chair, i.e., her daddy’s chair. Be prepared for it. You and the dean may want to map out a strategy in advance so when it happens, and Nail is out of the office, you know you are green-lighted for action. Do not let her publications fool you. Ask her to publish some articles without her dissertation chairman; see what happens.

(April 23, 2009) Dear Skip: Many of the old guard you have inherited not only do not want the change you and the dean are bringing their way, but also they are nostalgic for the good old accounting days of pencil and paper and adding machines. You know, Skip, back when it was really accounting and men were men. In their minds, those were the glory days.

(April 29, 2009) Dear Skip: You will inherit three factors in your favor at Southern Miss: a solid base of majors; one established professorship and another just begun; and, a very good administrative assistant. Use the professorship(s) wisely to encourage in various ways and to recruit. Your administrative assistant has been basically flying solo for two years, so make sure you understand she is not against you, she is simply not used to having a director present.

(May 3, 2009) Dear Skip: We do not know what Dean Nail has discussed with you so far about whipping the troops into shape, but consider this CoB (and Accounting) “tradition” as one possible method:

(May 4, 2009) Dear Skip: It is worth your time to read the letters your faculty members wrote to try to get Dr. Marc DePree fired from Southern Miss. Mary Anderson, Gwen Pate, and Patty Munn invoked the tragedy at Virginia Tech but failed to link anything to it. Roderick Posey re-tells what he claims others told him, and then states his fear of becoming like university property or a dog. Gwen Pate “hope(s) to see her son become an “adult with a family of his own”; it is unclear from Pate’s letter if she is concerned about her son not aging, if he will not have a family, or see will not be involved in his life to see these events. Steve Jackson’s letter instructs us how he briefly believed DePree had a weapon with him, but it was actually his BlackBerry; Dr. Jackson does not enlighten us whether his ignorance covers weapons, cell phones, or both.