(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?

DR. RODERICK POSEY, PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING, FORMER INTERIM DEAN, FORMER DIRECTOR SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTANCY

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(June 2, 2010) The Rat Pack 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 accounting professors Stanley Clark, Charles Jordan, and Roderick Posey.assigning Dugan’s teaching load.

(June 3, 2010) Best Case, Worst Case 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).

(September 6, 2010) EDITORIAL Yesterday usmnews.net published a report from one of its contributors concerning Dr. Rod Posey’s receipt of the Bell South Outstanding Faculty Award. As indicated in the report, Dr. Posey claims more than 100 accounting articles published. Unfortunately, no one has been able to locate more than a handful of those publications. If the publications exist, shouldn’t Dr. Posey include them on his vita?

(January 30, 2012) GH Chatter Lots of talk about retirements in the CoB’s School of Accountancy. It sounds as though Charles Jordan will step out after the 2011-12 academic year, and that Roderick Posey and Patricia Munn may join him. hiring new “teachers” for years to come. All three are expected to step out by the end of 2012-13, at least from the sound of it. Chatter also indicates that SoA director Kirby “Skip” Hughes may not be far behind these three.