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(April 3, 2008) Special Report Old Standbys An Investigative Report on Accounting’s AACSB Documents The recent report, No Group Does It Like Accounting, highlights many of the accountants’ talent for what former EFIB economist Charles Sawyer describes as “puffery.” In response to a criticism by the CoB’s AACSB Peer Review Team – that the intellectual activity in the CoB’s accounting department seemed to have fallen off a cliff in the years leading up to 2007, nine of the accountants put together a two-page table (which is also contained in the report linked above) containing what they claimed was information about 32 future journal submissions from members of the group. The report linked above, however, indicates that the two-page table provided by the accountants actually contained only 22 unique planned journal article submissions, and that those 22 (future) articles entered the two-page AACSB table an average of 1.73 times each.

(April 9, 2008) Breaking NewsAccounting Gets Defensive; Jackson Appears Agitated HATTIESBURG – Charmaine Williams’ 9-April-08 presser entitled “Master of Professional Accountancy to be Offered at Southern Miss Gulf Coast in Fall” contains some quotes from Interim SAIS Director, Steven Jackson, that indicate just how stressed the CoB’s accountants are becoming at news about the AACSB’s criticisms of the intellectual activity in the accounting division of USM’s SAIS. According to Williams’ presser, Jackson told Williams that “he [Jackson] wants students to understand that the [accounting] faculty members are knowledgeable and experienced.” Jackson then went on to tell Williams that the CoB’s accountants have published in a “variety of journals,” listing the Journal of Applied Business Research, Practical Tax Strategies, and The Journal of Accountancy, among others.

(April 22, 2008) CoB News, 22 April 2008 Research Metrics Found, Applied to CoB's Accountants The various reports containing Google Scholar citations for CoB faculty have drawn, and continue to draw, interest from USMNEWS.NET readers. One has suggested that our reporters examine www.harzing.com's "Publish or Perish" software program.

(April 24, 2008) CoB News, 24 April 2008 Google Scholar Citations Sluggers The Google Scholars citations analyses here at USMNEWS.NET usually make for some of our more popular reports. For those of you who have recently ventured out into GS-land, you may have noticed that Google has been working on implementing an upgrade to that engine. No group is more excited about that than USMNEWS.NET’s reporters. While we await that, there are some additional elements of research quality in the CoB to consider.