(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.

MICHAEL DUGAN, PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTANCY AND
HORNE PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTANCY

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(June 1, 2010) How is Hiring Michael Dugan a Good Deal? With Michael Dugan coming to USM’s b-school (from the University of Alabama) this fall as its new Horne LLP Distinguished Professor of Accounting, many in the USM community are wondering what he will be teaching in fall 2010. A 27-May-2010 check of data available from the USM Registrar shows that only two sections of a single accounting course look to be options for School of Accountancy director Skip Hughes to consider in assigning Dugan’s teaching load.

(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.

(June 17, 2010) Updated 17-June-2010, See Below Updated 4-May-2010, See Below Special Report Lance Nail & the 'Bama Boys An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials Though John Clark and Sami Dakhlia didn’t seem to benefit from CoB dean Lance Nail’s affiliations with the University of Alabama, Nail’s former UofAL accounting professor, Michael Dugan, certainly appears to have hit the jackpot as a result Nail’s current position at USM.

(September 8, 2010) 31st & Pearl ‘Hughes-Dugan Bromance’ Still White Hot The professional “bromance” that has been going on between the CoB’s director of accounting, Kirby “Skip” Hughes, and the new Horne Professor of Accounting, Michael Dugan, is as hot as ever.