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(August 11, 2009) Special Report The GS Cites Trap An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials Recent reports here at USMNEWS.net have examined Google Scholar cites to research conducted by various CoB faculty. As in past reports in this series, the data examined recently have been unadjusted GS cites. That is, there has been no accounting for self-cites in the overall data. This report addresses that issue by subtracting self-cites from the overall data, using a 6-Aug-09 GS cites search for ACC.

(April 4, 2010) The Three-Tiered CoB School of Accounting The potential addition of University of Alabama accountant Michael Dugan to the CoB’s School of Accounting does, as the recent . . . Breaking News . . . report indicates, create a three-tiered accounting school, at least as far as A-level publications goes. At the top of the SoA – the Tier 1 faculty – are two current CoB accountants, and, of course, Dugan (should he join the SoA). Their relatively high number of A-level contributions are pictured below.

(May 14, 2010) When is the School of Accountancy’s G5 Coming? A Guest Editorial by Victoria Tyler CoB dean Lance Nail is throwing around so much money these days, particularly to the benefit of the School of Accountancy, one can’t help but wonder when the SoA’s Gulfstream V is going to be delivered. After all, if USM president Martha Saunders gets to have an airplane, why can’t the big dogs over in USM’s b-school have one?

(May 31, 2010) The Parker-Hughes Audit More on ‘the Bottom Line’ in the CoB’s School of Accountancy The recent USMNEWS.net report, “How is Hiring Michael Dugan a Good Deal?” sparked a great deal of interest among readers. That report explained how incoming CoB accounting professor Michael Dugan (from the University of Alabama) will actually generate a net Fall 2010 loss to the CoB of anywhere from $45,000 to $57,000, given what is expected to be Dugan’s fall 2010 salary + fringes (about $94,000) and the tuition revenues generated by Dugan’s fall 2010 teaching assignment (about $36,000 to about $48,000). This report provides similar analyses of “the bottom lines” pertaining to relatively new SoA faculty Paula Parker and Skip Hughes.