Mailing Address
The University of Southern Mississippi
118 College Drive, #5178
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001
Director
K. E. 'Skip' Hughes
Professor
102-C Joseph Greene Hall
601.266.4641
Skip.Hughes@usm.edu
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Administrative Assistant
Melissa McIntyre
102 Joseph Greene Hall
601.266.4641
601.266.4642 (fax)
melissa.mcintyre@usm.edu
Accounting Faculty
- Mary Anderson, Assistant Professor
- John Brown, Instructor
- Stan Clark, Professor
- Marc Depree, Professor
- Steven R. Jackson, Associate Professor
- Ernest King
- Charles Jordan, Professor
- Patricia Munn, Instructor
- Gwen Pate, Associate Professor
- Roderick Posey, Professor
- Robert Smith, Associate Professor
Management Information Systems Faculty
Accounting Faculty
Specialty Fields
Tax and Financial Accounting
Education
Louisiana Tech University (D.B.A.), University of Southern Mississippi (M.P.A.), Arizona State University (B.S.)
Academic and Professional Interests
Dr. Anderson has published articles in professional journals including The Journal of Applied Business Research, The CPA Journal and Practical Tax Strategies.
Professional Honors and Achievements
Dr. Anderson is a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Mississippi Society of Certified Public Accountants.
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John Brown, M.S., CPA
Instructor
North Complex A
USM Gulf Coast Student Service Center
Gulfport (interim site for Gulf Park)
228.545.4559
John.A.Brown@usm.edu
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Specialty Fields
Financial, Cost, Tax, Managerial and Governmental Accounting
Education
The University of Southern Mississippi (B.S., M.S.) Certified Public Accountant
Academic and Professional Interests
Mr. Brown is a Certified Public Accountant and is a member of the American Institute of CPAs, Mississippi Society of CPAs, and is an educator associate member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He serves on the Awards, Education, and Scholarship committee of the Mississippi Society of CPAs and is the coordinator of the accounting internship program at USMGC. He has accounting experience in both public practice and industry and maintains a consulting practice providing tax and forensic accounting services. His teaching areas include financial, cost, tax, managerial and governmental accounting.
Professional Honors and Achievements
Mr. Brown has served as a member of the Board of Governors and as president of the Southwest Chapter of the Mississippi Society of CPAs. He has been published in Tax Notes, a national publication of Tax Analysts.
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Specialty Field
Financial Accounting, Individual Income Taxes
Education: The University of Southern Mississippi (B.S.B.A., M.B.A.), University of Kentucky (Ph.D.)
Academic and Professional Interest
Financial Accounting
Professional Honors and Achievements
Dr. Clark, a CPA, has published numerous journal articles. He was awarded the USM Excellence in Teaching Award in 2000 and was named Outstanding CPE Instructor by the Mississippi Society of CPAs in 1998. Recipient of Jerold J. Morgan Distinguished Professorship in Accounting for 2003 and 2004.
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Specialty Field
Financial/Cost/Managerial Accounting and Investments
Academic and Professional Interest
Financial/Cost/Managerial Accounting and Investments
Professional Honors and Achievements
Dr. DePree has published in academic, education, and professional journals. Quality academic journals include Abacus, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and Business and Professional Ethics Journal. Quality education journals include Issues in Accounting Education. Quality professional journals include Journal of Accountancy, The Professional Lawyer (ABA), CPCU Journal, Management Accounting, and Strategic Finance. Other scholarly activities includes The CPA Journal, The Journal of Commercial Lending, Ohio CPA Journal, Case and Comment, The Disclosure, National Public Accounting, The Beverly Hills Bar Association Journal, The Practical Accountant, Accounting Instructor’s Report, and New Accountant. He is a recipient of the Certificate of Merit awarded by the Institute of Management Accounting for “Strategic Planning for Environmental and Tort Claims,” The Lucas Endowment Faculty Excellence Award, and the University of Southern Mississippi Summer Research Grant. His presentations include Annual American Accounting Association Meetings, National Decision Sciences Meetings, and National TIMS/ORSA Meetings. He was an invited speaker at the Research Workshop Series, Culverhouse School of Accounting, University of Alabama, the Faculty Forum at the University of Calgary, and the Counsel Forum, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company. He was a reviewer for The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, European Journal of Operations Research, and Computers and Operations Research.
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Specialty Fields
Cost and managerial accounting
Education
U.S. Naval Academy (B.S.), University of South Carolina (MBA), University of Georgia (PhD)
Academic and Professional Interests
Market responses to accounting information; environmental costs and disclosures; issues affecting electric utilities; pedagogy and assessment.
Professional Honors and Achievements
Professor Hughes is a retired naval officer and a Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM). He has published in several scholarly journals, including The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Information Systems, and the Journal of Forensic Accounting. Additionally, Hughes has published over 40 articles on the electric utility industry. He has been honored in receiving the Sigma Phi Epsilon Outstanding Professor Award in 2007 and the C. Brenner Endowed Faculty Research Award in 2000 and 2002.
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Specialty Fields
Auditing and Managerial/Cost Accounting
Education
University of Montana (B.S.), Arizona State University (Ph.D)
Academic and Professional Interests
Dr. Jackson, a CPA, has published 17 articles in numerous research journals, has had 19 research papers published as meeting proceedings and has made 32 presentations of his research at various meetings. He is the co-author of a managerial accounting textbook now in it’s fourth edition published by Thomson/SouthWestern. He is currently the editor of the Journal of Accounting and Finance Research.
Professional Honors and Achievements
He has received six outstanding teaching awards at Arizona State University and the University of Southern Mississippi, two outstanding research awards from The University of Tennessee at Martin and The University of Southern Maine. He has held distinguished professorships at The University of Tennessee at Martin and Loyola University New Orleans where he was also the director of the accounting program. He also held an Endowed Chair at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He has been listed in Who’s Who among America’s Teachers and Who’s Who in Business Higher Education.
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Specialty Fields
Legal studies and ethics
Education
University of South Florida (B.A.), University of Miami (J.D.), Samford University (LL.M.),
Academic and Professional Interests
Corporate law, ethics, and health care law
Professional Honors and Achievements
Dr. King has published articles in the American Business Law Journal, Journal of Legal Studies and Business, Journal of Business Ethics, and other journals and proceedings. He has made numerous presentations at national and regional meetings. Dr. King has been Editor of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business Proceedings since 1991. He served as Chair of the Ethics Section of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business and served as President of the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
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Specialty Field
Financial accounting
Education
University of West Florida (B.A., M.A.), Louisiana Tech University (D.B.A.)
Academic and Professional Interests
Financial accounting
Professional Honors and Achievements
Dr. Jordan, a CPA, has published in numerous journals, including the CPA Journal, Journal of Accountancy, Business Ethics Quarterly, and the Journal of Applied Business Research. He has twice won the outstanding manuscript award at the annual meeting of the Allied Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies. He received the College of Business Administration’s Bell South Outstanding Faculty Award in 1991-92 and again in 1999-2000.
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Specialty Field
Financial accounting
Education
The University of Southern Mississippi (M.P.A.)
Academic and Professional Interest
Financial accounting
Professional Honors and Achievements
Ms. Polk, a CPA, serves as faculty advisor for Beta Alpha Psi, the accounting honorary society, and as liaison between job-seeking students and recruiters in the School of Professional Accountancy.
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Specialty Fields
Managerial and financial accounting
Education
University of Tennessee at Knoxville (Ph.D.)
Academic and Professional Interests
Managerial and financial accounting
Professional Honors and Achievements
Dr. Pate has published several journal articles in such publications as Journal of Accountancy and the CPA Journal. Her practical experience includes serving as internal auditor at USM and as an accountant in the health care field.
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Specialty Field
Governmental Accounting
Education
University of Southern Mississippi (B.S.B.A., M.P.A.), Oklahoma State University (Ph.D.)
Academic and Professional Interests
Dr. Posey, a CPA, has published more than 100 articles in several publications related to many accounting issues. His research interests vary, favoring accounting education and governmental accounting issues.
Professional Honors and Achievements
Dr. Posey received the Mississippi Gold Medal on the CPA exam which goes to the person with the highest score statewide. Also, he is the recipient of the Elijah Watts Sells Award with High Distinction, signifying he received one of the top scores in the nation on the CPA exam. He is a member of the Mississippi Society of CPAs and the Decision Sciences Institute.
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Specialty Field
Taxation
Education
Louisiana State University (Ph.D.)
Academic and Professional Interests
Tax policy, education, and behavioral effects of accounting policy
Professional Honors and Achievements
Dr. Smith received a Ph.D in accounting from Louisiana State university in 1988 and taught at Boston University and Georgia State University before arriving at Southern Miss in the fall of 1995. Bob is a frequent contributor to the professional and academic accounting literature and is an active member of the American Accounting Association, the American Taxation Association, and other professional and academic organizations. Bob is a certified public accountant and has worked for international public accounting firms.
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Management Information Systems Faculty
Specialty Field
Database-backed Web Applications, Enterprise Resource Planning Software, Web Design, and Medical Information Systems.
Education
Illinois Institute of Technology (Ph.D.), Georgia State University (M.S. Computer Science), National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan (B.A.)
Academic and Professional Interests
A well-established author and researcher, Dr. Chen served in several editorial positions including editorial board member for the International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, editor for the 2005 ACME proceedings, reviewer for the Journal of International Technology and Information Management, and section chair for the annual meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute. She currently serves as the president of the ACME.
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Specialty Field
Information systems
Education
Florida State University (B. S.), University of Mississippi (M.A., Ph.D.)
Academic and Professional Interests
Management of the systems development process, accounting information systems, systems analysis
Professional Honors and Achievements
Dr. Davis has published articles in the Journal of Management Information Systems, Computers and Operations Research, International Journal of Production and Operations Management, Journal of Computer and Information Systems, and a number of other journals. She has presented many papers at national meetings.
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Chang-Tseh Hsieh, Ph.D.
Professor
Editor, Journal of International Technology and Information Management
319-G Joseph Greene Hall
601.266.6124
chang-tseh.hsieh@usm.edu
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Specialty Fields
Database management, Internet commerce
Education
Purdue University at West Lafayette, Indiana (Ph.D.)
Academic and Professional Interests
E-commerce applications, decision support systems
Professional Honors and Achievements
Dr. Hsieh has published articles in the Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Systems Management, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Journal of End User Computing, Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Information Systems Management, Industrial Management, and Data Systems, among others. Hsieh is the recipient of the McCarty Distinguished Professor of MIS since 2001 and has been editor of the Journal of International Technology and Information Management since 2002. He also has extensive working experience with enterprise information systems design and development and has engineered several e-commerce deployment projects.
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FuJun Lai, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
North Complex A
USM Gulf Coast Student Service Center
Gulfport (interim site for Gulf Park)
228.545.4529
fujun.lai@usm.edu
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Specialty Fields
Supply chain management, enterprise resource management, and e-business
Education
Ph.D. from the City University of Hong Kong in Operations Management
Academic and Professional Interests
Supply Chain and
Logistics Management, E-Business, Enterprise Resource Management, and
Quality Management
Professional Honors and Achievements
Dr. Lai has authored a
number of publications that have appeared in such journals as International
Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Physical
Distribution & Logistics Management, Communications of the ACM, Production
and Inventory Management Journal, International Journal of Electronic
Business, Industrial Management and Data Systems, International Journal
Quality & Reliability Management and International Journal of Technology
Management. Dr. Lai serves the editorial review boards of International
Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, Strategic Outsourcing: An
International Journal, Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge,
and Management, and Open Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Journal.
He is also a reviewer for International Journal of Production Research,
European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of International
Technology and Management, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research,
Industrial Management & Data Systems, and International Journal of
Production Economics. Dr. Lai is a Certified SAP Professional, Certified
Oracle Professional, Certified IBM Solution Expert, and Certified Sun
Solaris Network Administrator.
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J. Scott MaGruder, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
319-H Joseph Greene Hall
601.266.5099
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Specialty Field
Computer security
Education
University of Southern Illinois (Ph.D.)
Academic and Professional Interests
Computer security, computer viruses, Java and Perl programming
Professional Honors and Achievements
Dr. Magruder has published several articles involving computer viruses and other security issues. One of these appeared in Computer & Security.
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