Gary McGill named President-Elect of the American Accounting Association

Gary McGill, J. Roy Duggan Professor of Accounting, Warrington Senior Associate Dean, and Director of the Fisher School of Accounting and Hough Graduate School of Business, has been elected as President-Elect of the American Accounting Association.

The American Accounting Association, with almost 7,000 global members, is the largest community of accountants in academia. Founded in 1916, it has a rich and reputable history built on leading-edge research and publications.

Its membership creates a fertile environment for collaboration and innovation. Collectively, the American Accounting Association shapes the future of accounting through teaching, research and a powerful network, ensuring its position as a thought leader in accounting.

McGill is the longest serving Director of the Fisher School, appointed in 2006. His tenure as Fisher School Director has seen a major rebuilding of the accounting faculty as well as the coordination of major curriculum revisions at both the undergraduate and master’s level in the Fisher School, including the creation of the auditing and taxation concentrations in the Master of Accounting (MAcc) degree.

McGill joined the University of Florida in 1986. He has published over 60 journal articles, book chapters, or research reports, co-authored six books and has received numerous teaching awards at UF. McGill is a frequent lecturer on international tax, federal tax, and accounting for income taxes for academic, professional, and government organizations, including providing invited testimony to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee hearings on Enron.

McGill has taught numerous graduate and undergraduate tax and accounting courses as well as doctoral courses in tax research and accounting research. McGill has chaired over 20 Ph.D. or DBA dissertation committees and served on 32 Ph.D. or DBA dissertation committees.