Michael T. Dugan

Michael Timothy Dugan (born 1957) is an accounting academic, currently serving as Professor of Accounting at Augusta University. He is noted for research contributions in the area of predictive ability and market-based archival research. Peers external to his home institution have recognized Dugan for teaching excellence.

Early life and education Dugan was born on September 27, 1957, as the youngest of the four children of Albert Francis Dugan and Ruth Margaret Dugan (née Welsh). Albert Dugan was a geophysicist employed by Mobil Oil Company in Dallas, Texas, and was transferred to his hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1959. In 2014, Dugan relocated to Augusta University (then Georgia Regents University) to become Peter S. Knox Distinguished Chair of Accounting, where he remains as of the Spring semester 2017.

Dugan has developed bankruptcy prediction model limitations and accounting-based estimation techniques for corporate risk In 2017, Augusta University awarded Dugan with their graduate school's outstanding research award for the recognition that his research brought to the university. Dugan received the 2020 Accounting Department Outstanding Alumnus Award from the University of New Orleans.

Personal life

Dugan is a divorced father of two children and resides in Evans, Georgia.