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Bachelor of Accountancy
The Bachelor of Accountancy degree is 124 semester hours. The following is the typical program of study: freshman, sophomore, junior and senior. Students are also required to complete a minor. For more information, contact Hillary Goulding or Diane Tredway.
|English Composition
|Laboratory Science
|Calculus for Business
|Fine Arts
|Behavioral Science
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|Governmental Accounting
|Advanced Accounting
|Income Tax I
|Business Law
|Strategic Planning
|Applied Writing
|Minor/emphasis requirement
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*Students may elect to complete a 10-week internship, which applies toward graduation, during the spring semester of the senior year. For more information, see the Internships section.
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Dr. W. Mark Wilder, Dean and KPMG Chair of Accountancy
200G Conner
(662) 915-5756
Dr. Mark Wilder is Dean and KPMG Chairholder in the Patterson School of Accountancy at The University of Mississippi. His educational background includes an associates degree from Tyler (TX) Junior College, a bachelor=s degree from The University of Alabama, an MBA from the University of South Alabama, and a PhD in Accounting from Florida State University. Dr. Wilder is a CPA and has been on the faculty at Ole Miss since 1993, serving as dean since 2006. His expertise is in financial accounting and he continues to teach the two intermediate courses as well as a doctoral seminar in financial accounting. He has published in a variety of journals including Accounting Horizons, Advances in Taxation, the Journal of International Accounting Research, the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, the Journal of Computer and Information Systems, the CPA Journal, and others.
Dr. Wilder has been instrumental in the development of the School of Accountancy's highly successful internship program. He has also been active in the Mississippi Society of CPAs, previously serving as president of the Northeast Chapter, as state-wide Treasurer, an appointment on the Board of Governors, and as chair of the Awards, Education, and Scholarships Committee.
Dr. Wilder has received the top two campus-wide faculty awards at Ole Miss including (i) the prestigious Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award in 2005, and (ii) the Faculty Achievement Award in 2004 which is an all-around faculty award recognizing outstanding teaching, research, and service. In 2006, Mark was honored as the MSCPA Outstanding Educator and was also the University of Mississippi HEADWAE Faculty Honoree for 2006. He is also a two-time winner of both of the Patterson School's top faculty awards (the Outstanding Teacher Award and the Outstanding Researcher Award).
On a personal note, Mark was an All-American and ALL-SEC tennis performer at the collegiate level and attained an ATP World Ranking of #298 in 1987. He and his father Red were inducted into the Alabama Tennis Hall of Fame together in 2004. Mark is married to the former Denise (Dede) English of Penasacola, Florida. They have sons Zach and Sam.
Dr. Kendall O. Bowlin, Assistant Professor
314 Conner
(662) 915-5406
Kendall Bowlin, PhD, CPA (inactive) joined the School of Accountancy faculty in 2008 after earning his PhD at The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to his doctoral studies, Kendall received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Ole Miss School of Business and a Master of Accountancy from the Ole Miss School of Accountancy in 1998 and 1999, respectively, and then spent four years as an auditor in Ernst & Young's Memphis, TN office.
Kendall's primary teaching and research interests are in the field of auditing. His research focuses on the strategic aspects of interactions between auditors and client managers. He is particularly interested in the ways in which institutional features of the audit environment affect the auditor's ability to anticipate and respond to the manager's possible tendencies toward financial misreporting.
Kendall and his wife, Lisbeth, have two children, Mary Kennedy and Charlie.
Dr. Kendall O. Bowlin's Research
Dr. Brett Cantrell, Assistant Professor
104A Conner
(662) 915-5409
Brett Cantrell, PhD, CPA, is an assistant professor of accounting at the Patterson School of Accountancy at The University of Mississippi. Brett received his PhD in accounting from the University of Texas at Austin. His B.S. and M.S. in accounting are from the University of Mississippi.
Brett's research examines the quality and usefulness of bank accounting estimates such as the allowance for loan losses. His work has been published in The Accounting Review. Brett is a certified public accountant in the state of Mississippi (inactive). Prior to his doctoral studies, Brett served in the audit practice of KPMG's Birmingham, AL office.
Dr. Judith Cassidy, Associate Professor
(662) 915-5445
Dr. Judith Cassidy, CPA, CMA is an associate professor of accountancy. She holds a BA in Economics from Tulane and attended Tulane University School of Public Health. She worked in medical practice management for twelve years and then returned to school to earn an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington, and a Ph.D. from Texas Tech University. She is a member of the Institute of Management Accountants, the Mississippi State Society of CPA's and Financial Executives International. She has published in Advances in Accounting, The Journal of Applied Business Research, The Woman CPA, The Journal of Cost Management, and Benefits Quarterly. Dr. Cassidy teaches and researches in the areas of cost/managerial accounting and international accounting and co-ordinates the School of Accountancy's study abroad program in London each summer.
Dr. James W. Davis, Peery Professor of Accountancy
204B Conner
(662) 915-1543
Dr. James W. Davis is a professor in the Patterson School of Accountancy and holds the distinguished Peery Chair in Accountancy. He served as dean of the school from 1993 until 2002, and has been a member of the accountancy faculty since 1965. Dr. Davis is a native of Panola County, Mississippi, and attended public schools at Pleasant Grove and Sardis. He holds bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from Ole Miss, all with majors in accountancy.
He is a Certified Public Accountant (retired) and has experience in industry and in the Houston office of Arthur Andersen. He served as president of the Mississippi Society of Certified Public Accountants in 1983-1984.Previously he had served as the Society's secretary, chair of several committees and as a member of the Board of Governors.
As the unofficial historian for the Society, he authored a history of accountancy in Mississippi in 1977, based upon his doctoral dissertation.
Former students and friends of Dr. Davis have established The James W. Davis Scholarship in Accountancy at The University of Mississippi Foundation. The endowment of approximately $600,000 provides $3,000 scholarships annually for several accountancy students and is administered by the Dean of the Patterson School of Accountancy.
Dr. Davis received the University-wide Outstanding Teacher Award in 1985 and received the Patterson School's outstanding teacher awards in 1983, 1988, 1993, 2004 and 2008. He received the Mississippi Society's Outstanding Educator Award in 1993.
He is a trustee of the Mississippi Society's Educational Foundation. He holds memberships in Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Beta Gamma Sigma, and Beta Alpha Psi. He is a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Oxford. Dr. Davis enjoys travel, reading, and collecting books and has a complete collection of Ole Miss Annuals.
Dr. James W. Davis' Curriculum VITAE
Dr. Victoria Dickinson, Assistant Professor
204C Conner
(662) 915-5448
Vicki Dickinson, PhD, CPA, is an assistant professor of accounting at the Patterson School of Accountancy at the University of Mississippi. Vicki received her PhD in accounting from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her B.S. and M.S. in accounting are from St. Cloud State University, Minnesota.
Vicki's research examines the effect of industrial organization on firm performance and valuation through the lens of financial statement analysis. Her work has been published in The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, and Issues in Accounting Education.
Vicki was the recipient of the 2011-2012 Outstanding Teacher of the Year and the 2010-2011 Outstanding Researcher of the Year for the Patterson School of Accountancy, and received the 2007-2008 J. Michael Cook Excellence in Teaching Award, the 2008 Warrington College of Business Teacher of the Year, the 2009 Judy Fisher Teaching with Technology award, and was a 2008-2009 Anderson Scholar Faculty Honoree while on the faculty at the University of Florida.
Vicki is a certified public accountant in the state of Minnesota (inactive). She was an auditor and part of the Management Advisory Services team for Schweitzer, Rubin, Gottlieb and Karon, CPAs in Minneapolis, Minnesota (now CBIZ/Mayer Hoffman McCann). She later worked as a Sr. Financial Analyst (International Banking) at Wells Fargo (Minneapolis, MN) and as a Risk Analyst at Lockheed Martin (Calabasas, CA).
Dr. Victoria Dickinson's Research
Dr. Rick Elam, Reynolds Professor of Accountancy
316 Conner
(662) 915-5281
Dr. Rick Elam is the Reynolds Chair of Accountancy in the Patterson School of Accountancy at The University of Mississippi where he teaches elementary accounting for honors students, accounting systems, policy and ethics for graduate students. He was honored by the Mississippi Society of CPAs with their 2011 Outstanding Educator Award.
The Reynolds Chair is endowed as part of a $16.5 million gift in honor of Ole Miss Accountancy Alumnus E. H. "Pat" Patterson in recognition of his 25 years of service to Donald W. Reynolds and the Donrey Media Group, which Reynolds created. In response to the gift, University officials have renamed the school the "Patterson School of Accountancy."
Before moving to Ole Miss, Dr. Elam, a nationally known authority on accounting education, served as Dean of the College of Business at Middle Tennessee State University, one of the largest accredited business schools with 3,000 majors and 111 faculty.
From 1989-95, Dr. Elam served as Vice-President-Education of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) where he managed three divisions: The Examinations Division prepares the Uniform CPA Examination, which was administered semiannually to 65,000 candidates; the Academic and Career Development Division, which influences the academic community and the public to attract highly qualified people into the accounting profession and ensure they receive the highest quality pre-certification education; and the AICPA Library, which serves the information and research needs of the Institute's 325,000 members.
Prior to joining the AICPA in 1989, Dr. Elam was Dean of the School of Business at Rutgers University (Camden). Previously, he was Professor and Director of the School of Accountancy at the University of Missouri at Columbia.
He has written numerous professional articles and participated as a speaker at many national and international educators' conferences. He is conducting research on the topic of Extensible Business Reporting Language. Dr. Elam serves on the Mississippi State Board of Public Accountancy. He holds a B.S. degree in business administration and economics from Culver-Stockton College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in accountancy from the University of Missouri at Columbia.
Dr. Elam is married to Dr. Karen J. Elam. They have two adult children.
Dr. Dale L. Flesher, Associate Dean and Professor
200 Conner
(662) 915-7623
Dr. Dale L. Flesher is professor and Arthur Andersen Alumni Lecturer in the School of Accountancy at The University of Mississippi, and serves as associate dean of the School of Accountancy. He is the coordinator of all graduate programs in Accountancy at Ole Miss. Dr. Flesher joined the Ole Miss faculty in 1977, following four years at Appalachian State University. He received both bachelors and masters degrees from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He holds a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Flesher holds CPA, CIA, CMA, CFM, CFE, and CGFM certificates. He has authored over 300 articles for more than 100 different professional journals throughout the world, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accountancy, Management Accounting, Internal Auditing, Internal Auditor, The CPA Journal, Government Accountants Journal, Managerial Auditing Journal, Taxation for Accountants, TAXES, The Accounting Historians Journal, Accounting and Business Research, Accounting, Business and Financial History, Business and Economic History, and Accounting, Organizations and Society. He is also the author of 50 books in 87 editions, including Operations Auditing in Hospitals, Internal Auditing Standards and Practices, Independent Auditors Guide to Operational Auditing, Introduction to Financial Accounting, CMA Examination Review (with Irv Gleim), and the 50th anniversary history of The Institute of Internal Auditors and the 75th anniversary history of the American Accounting Association. He also authored books on the history of AACSB and NASBA. He has had five tax books published by Commerce Clearing House. One of his recent books was a history of the accountancy program at Ole Miss.
Dr. Flesher is a member of many professional organizations, including the American Institute of CPAs, Mississippi Society of CPAs, American Taxation Association, Institute of Internal Auditors, Association of Government Accountants, Institute of Management Accountants, American Accounting Association, Newcomen Society, Mississippi Historical Society, and the Academy of Accounting Historians (which he served as international president in 1988). Dr. Flesher has served as editor of The Accounting Historians Journal, a position he held from 1989 through 1994. He previously edited The Accounting Historians Notebook for ten years. Dr. Flesher has won numerous research and teaching awards. In 1987, he won the University of Mississippi's Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award as the outstanding faculty member campus wide. Earlier, in 1976, he won the campus wide outstanding teacher of the year award from Appalachian State University. He won the 1990 Leon Radde Award from the Institute of Internal Auditors as the outstanding auditing educator worldwide. He was the Mississippi Society of CPAs 1998 Educator of the Year. He is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Finance and Industry. In 2005, he received the inaugural Thomas J. Burns Accounting Biography Award. He received four major awards in 2011. The AICPA honored Dr. Flesher with its Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award for his lifetime contributions to the accounting profession. The University of Mississippi gave Dr. Flesher its highest research honor, the Distinguished Research and Creative Achievement Award, for the many scholarly achievements during his long career. He was also selected by the American Accounting Association as the Outstanding Educator in the Southeast Region, and by the Emerald Literati Network for an outstanding book published in 2010 entitled Gerhard G. Mueller: Father of International Accounting Education. In 2012, he was honored by the Teaching, Learning, & Curriculum Section of the American Accounting Association with that organization's Hall of Honor Award.
One of his books and many articles have been translated into Chinese by a publisher in the People's Republic of China. He previously served on an AICPA task force that drafted a Statement of Position. In 1996, he served on an AICPA task force coordinating the centennial celebration of the CPA examination. As part of the CPA centennial celebration, he co-produced and scripted an award-winning video on the history of the CPA in America. He was the Convener and Program Director for the 2004 World Congress of Accounting Historians. He has served on the Board of Directors of the AICPA Foundation and on the AICPA Council. He served as program co-chairman for the 2008 American Accounting Association annual meeting in Anaheim. He is serving on the Advisory Committee for the Celebration of the AICPA's 125th Anniversary. He is serving as vice president of finance for the American Accounting Association (2011-2014).
Dr. Flesher served as treasurer of the Oxford-University United Methodist Church in Oxford from 1985 to 2004. He also serves as treasurer of the University's chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi honorary. He served nine years (1992-1997, 1998-2002) on the school board of Oxford-University School, a local private school. Besides his 45 years teaching experience, Dr. Flesher had short stints with Arthur Andersen & Co. in New Orleans, a local CPA firm in Muncie, Indiana, and Anaconda Corporation in Marion, Indiana. His hobbies include playing basketball, tennis, and softball, and collecting antique stock certificates (scripophily). His wife Tonya, also an Ole Miss Accountancy professor, was the MSCPA's Outstanding Educator in 1995. They have a 30-year old son, Flyn, and a 19-year-old daughter, Felicity.
Dr. Dale L. Flesher's Research
Dr. Tonya K. Flesher, Professor
302 Conner
(662) 915-5731
Dr. Tonya K. Flesher is the Arthur Andersen professor of accountancy at The University of Mississippi. In 2003 she was presented with the Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award, the University-wide teaching award. She was selected as the 1995 Outstanding Educator of the Year by the Mississippi Society of CPAs. Dr. Flesher served as dean of the School of Accountancy at The University of Mississippi from 1987 to 1993. She was the first woman to hold an academic deanship in the 150-year history of the University. In addition to her faculty duties, she also serves as the director of the Tax History Research Center, which is jointly sponsored by the University and the Academy of Accounting Historians. She is a CPA. Her bachelors degree is from Ball State University, her masters from Appalachian State University, and her Ph.D. in accounting from The University of Mississippi. She has authored eight books and nearly 100 articles. Before she became dean, she was the editor of the most widely-used tax textbook in the country. Currently, Dr. Flesher is a contributing author to Concepts in Federal Taxation. She has published in such journals as the Journal of Accountancy, The Accounting Review, The CPA Journal, Advances in Taxation, Taxation for Accountants, The Tax Adviser, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Accounting and Business Research, TAXES– The Tax Magazine, and Management Accounting.
Dr. Flesher is an active member of several professional organizations including the American Institute of CPAs, the American Accounting Association, the American Taxation Association, the Mississippi Society of CPAs, and the Academy of Accounting Historians, the latter organization of which she served as international president in 1993. Tonya has previously had a regular column entitled "Computers in Tax" which appeared quarterly in The Tax Adviser. She has served as the Education Department editor of The Woman CPA. She has been a reviewer for the Accounting Historians Journal and the Journal of the American Taxation Association. Dr. Flesher was a member of the AICPA Minority Initiatives Committee. She currently serves on the AICPA Regulations Committee and the Content Committee which are responsible for the CPA examination."
In previous years she has won both the School of Accountancy's Outstanding Teacher Award and the Outstanding Researcher Award. She was the 1986 recipient of the University of Mississippi's Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award as an outstanding faculty member campus wide. In 2003, she was a H.E.A.D.W.A.E Outstanding Faculty honoree in the State of Mississippi.
Dr. Tonya K. Flesher's Research
Dr. Howard Lawrence, Clinical Professor of Accountancy
(662) 393-1616
Dr. Howard Lawrence, CPA, CMA is a Clinical Professor of Accountancy. He holds a Ph.D. from The University of Mississippi, a MBA from Memphis State University, and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Christian Brothers College. Dr. Lawrence has worked in the steel industry as a plant engineer and the paper industry as a design engineer. Dr. Lawrence has held a number of administrative positions including Vice President for Academic Affairs at the State Technical Institute at Memphis and President of the Nashville State Technical Institute. He comes to the Patterson School from Christian Brothers where he was Professor of Accounting.
Suzanne McCaffrey, Instructor
306 Conner
(662) 915-5999
Suzanne McCaffrey attended the University of Maryland and received a Bachelor's of Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting. That spring she started work with Arthur Young & Co. in Washington, D.C., who later merged with Ernst & Whinney. After working three years in the public arena, she moved to Mississippi in order for her new husband to attend graduate school. During these years, she worked at The University of Mississippi doing internal audit work, departmental accounting, contract & grant accounting, and a campus wide re-engineering project. In addition, during this time she attended graduate school herself and received her Masters of Accountancy. Her husband eventually received his degree and accepted a faculty position on campus.
After working one year off campus, she accepted an instructor position in the School of Accountancy to begin teaching Fall 2000. She has taught every spring and fall semester since. In 2002, Suzanne began advising Beta Alpha Psi, the School of Accountancy's honorary student group, helping the group achieve Distinguished Status in 2008. In the summer of 2008, Suzanne began a three year tenure as Chapter Advocate for the Southeast Region on the Beta Alpha Psi Board of Director. Suzanne still stays involved with Beta Alpha Psi by helping with the annual meetings. Suzanne finds teaching rewarding and enjoys being around all different types of students.
Dr. Duffy A. Morf, Assistant Professor
312 Conner
(662) 915-5266
Dr. Duffy A. Morf is an Assistant Professor in the Patterson School of Accountancy at The University of Mississippi. He teaches a variety of accounting courses at the Tupelo and Southaven campuses. Dr. Morf earned his undergraduate degree from Northern Illinois University, an M.B.A. from San Francisco State University, and a Ph.D. from The University of Mississippi. He is a C.P.A. in the state of Illinois. Dr. Morf has had an active role in industry for over twenty-five years. Starting his business career with Ernst & Young in Chicago, he then served as a controller, treasurer, chief financial officer, and president of various companies located in Chicago, San Francisco, and Denver. Dr. Morf has published an article about Ethics Officers in the Journal of Business Ethics, and articles in the Tennessee CPA Journal and the OSCPA Wire.
Prior to joining the Ole Miss faculty in 2000, Dr. Morf spent a year on the faculty of Lander University in South Carolina.
Dr. Morf is a member of the American Accounting Association, Academy of Accounting Historians and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Dr. Dave L. Nichols, Associate Professor
104B Conner
(662) 915-5237
Dr. Dave L. Nichols is an Associate Professor in the E. H. Patterson School of Accountancy at The University of Mississippi. He earned his Ph.D. in Accounting at Oklahoma State University. His research interests include, in addition to Title VII employment issues, accounting certification issues and the usefulness of geographic segment reporting. Professor Nichols' articles have appeared in or have been accepted in the Southern Law Journal, Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Industrial Management, International Financial Management Journal, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Journal of Corporate Accounting & Finance, Human Resource Planning, Petroleum Accounting and Financial Management Journal, Journal of Individual Employment Rights, and the Journal of Contemporary Business Issues.
Dr. Rachna Prakash, Assistant Professor
312 Conner
(662) 915-5757
Dr. Rachna Prakash is an Assistant Professor on the faculty at the Patterson School of Accountancy. She received her Ph.D. from Goizueta Business School, Emory University, in 2007. Prior to that, she earned her MS in Accounting from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and MBA from the University of Rochester. Rachna is also a Chartered Accountant from India.
Rachna's research examines capital market impact of firms' disclosure choices and accounting policy. Her research has been published in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Her recent research on carbon emissions has been widely cited in the business press and referred to by investment banks. In addition to being a regular speaker at major accounting conferences, she has a track record of invited presentations of her research work at the SEC, the PCAOB and at POMS (Operation Management meeting).
Rachna has teaching experience at both graduate and undergraduate level. Previously she served on the faculty at the Mason School of Business in the College of William and Mary and visiting faculty at Georgetown University, among others. In 2010, she was nominated for the "Ernst & Young Inclusive Excellence Award" for teaching. In addition to her academic experience, she has extensive international corporate experience having worked for KPMG in Delhi, Citibank in Mumbai, and Salomon Smith Barney in New York.
Dr. William R. Rhodes, Clinical Assistant Professor
204A Conner
(662) 915-5449
Dr. Rhodes received his B.S. in Mathematics with a minor in English from Delta State University in 1974. He received an MBA degree with an emphasis in accounting from The University of Mississippi in 1976 and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from The University of Mississippi in 1982.
He is a member of the Oxford Kiwanis Club, the Oxford-University United Methodist Church, the Mississippi State Bar, the AICPA, the Northeast Chapter of the Mississippi Society of CPAs, and the Mississippi Society of CPAs.
Dr. J Riley Shaw, Associate Professor
204D Conner
(662) 915-5446
Dr. J Shaw earned his Ph.D. in accounting from Oklahoma State University in July 2002. His primary research interests are in the areas of capital markets and financial reporting. He is also interested in tax issues and specifically the tax aspects of aircraft ownership. He has articles published in Advances in Taxation, The Journal of Legal Tax Research, The Journal of International Accounting Research, Taxes-The Tax Magazine, Managerial Finance, and The International Journal of Accounting Literature. Dr. Shaw was selected as the Outstanding Researcher in the Patterson School of Accountancy for 2004-2005.
Dr. Shaw has taught nine courses at The University of Mississippi. He has taught Principles of Accounting I and II, Intermediate Accounting I and II, Federal Income Taxes I and II, Governmental Accounting, and a Ph.D. seminar in Financial Accounting and Capital Markets. He has also taught a study abroad course in London since 2008. He was selected by accountancy students as the Patterson School of Accountancy Outstanding Teacher for the academic years 2005-2006 and 2009-2010.
Dr. Shaw is the Faculty Advisor for Beta Alpha Psi and the Deloitte Tax Case Competition Team. He serves on the University's Undergraduate Council, and has previously served on Faculty Senate. He has served on a University-wide Quality Enhancement Plan development committee. He is the former Editor of the newsletter for the Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Section of the American Accounting Association and is also the former Chair of the Committee on Teaching and Curriculum for the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. He has presented topics covering the tax aspects of aircraft ownership at the Patterson School of Accountancy's Accountancy Weekend and the Mississippi Tax Institute.
Prior to his doctoral program, Dr. Shaw was Manager of Federal Income Taxes in the Tax Department of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. located in Bentonville, Arkansas, and he began his accounting career in the Tax Department of the Tulsa office of Arthur Andersen & Co. Dr. Shaw holds a B.S. in Business Administration and a M.S. in Accounting, both from Oklahoma State University.
Dr. Morris H. Stocks, Provost and Professor
137 Lyceum
(662) 915-1198
Dr. Morris H. Stocks received his undergraduate degree in accounting from Trevecca Nazarene University, his Masters degree from Middle Tennessee State University and his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. He is a Certified Public Accountant.
Dr. Stocks has been at The University of Mississippi since 1991 and teaches financial accounting. He also serves as Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. He is the 1998 recipient of the University's most prized teaching honor, the Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award. Dr. Stocks has published in many of his profession's top journals, including Accounting, Organizations and Society; Accounting Horizons; Behavioral Research in Accounting; Decision Sciences; Advances in Accounting; Issues in Accounting Education; Advances in Accounting Information Systems; Advances in Behavioral Accounting Research; Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal and Advances in Taxation. He has also published in several professional journals, including The Journal of Accountancy, Today's CPA, The Ohio CPA and Management Accounting Quarterly. He is a member of the American Accounting Association, The American Institute of CPAs, The Decision Sciences Institute, as well as several academic honorary societies.
Dr. Morris H. Stocks' Research
Dr. Karl J. Wang, Associate Professor
304 Conner
(662) 915-3980
Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from The University of South Carolina in 2003. His education also includes a BA and an MA from Fudan University and an MACC from USC. He was a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy, and spent three years working in public accounting (auditing) before switching back to being an academic in the latter field.
His research covers auditing and accounting regulation, focusing on behavioral and cross-cultural issues in accounting and business communication. He is particularly interested in philosophical and epistemological issues in accounting and auditing. His empirical research uses experimental economics and other experimental and non-experimental methods. He has published in leading academic journals such as Philosophical Trends, Accounting, Organizations and Society, and Behavioral Research in Accounting. He has taught courses in accounting, auditing, philosophy, and logic.
Dr. Wang loves classical music, reading, and traveling around the world.
He is a CPA registered in the state of South Carolina.
Dr. Mitchell R. Wenger, Assistant Professor
318 Conner
(662) 259-0097
Mitch Wenger is an Assistant Professor in the Patterson School of Accountancy at The University of Mississippi. Mitch earned his B.S. in Accountancy from the University of Illinois, his MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington, and his Ph.D. program from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Mitch is a CPA in the state of Texas and brings twenty-plus years of practice and industry experience to the classroom. He was a manager with Arthur Andersen/Andersen Consulting in Dallas and Charlotte before managing enterprise software projects in the retail industry and managing the logistics practice at a startup consulting firm. Later, he managed a services practice, advised on potential acquisitions, and developed new product prototypes for Hyperion Solutions (now part of Oracle Corporation).
Mitch's primary research interests are in the area of accounting systems: their impact on relationships within organizations and the ways in which they facilitate changes in internal measures of success. He is an active member of the American Accounting Association, the AICPA, and the Association for Information Systems.
Dr. Mitchell R. Wenger's Research
Robert L. Bradford, Network Administrator
22 North Conner
(662) 915-5460
Ms. Heather Chance, Administrative Coordinator
200H Conner
(662) 915-5756
Ms. Hillary Goulding, Assistant to the Dean
200C Conner
(662) 915-5009
Hillary Goulding is Assistant to the Dean in the Patterson School of Accountancy. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Art History from The University of Mississippi. She is a native of Jackson, Mississippi where she graduated from St. Andrews Episcopal School. Hillary currently lives on a small farm outside Oxford with her husband Tim and son Aidan. In her spare time, Hillary enjoys supporting Ole Miss, attending her son's athletics events, and riding her horses.
Ms. Jen McMillan, Assistant to Dean for Development
The Carriage House
(662) 915-1993
(662) 915-1759 (Fax)
Ms. Elisabeth Mills, Sr. Administrative Secretary
200K Conner
(662) 915-7676
Ms. Heather Staggs, Sr. Clerk Typist
200K Conner
(662) 915-1378
Ms. Diane Tredway, Academic Counselor
104D Conner
(662) 915-6662
Mr. Andy Almand
Conner 317
(662) 915-3982
Andrew D. Almand, CPA is a doctoral student in the Patterson School of Accountancy at the University of Mississippi. He received his Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Master of Business Administration from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. After graduating with his MBA, Andy became a CPA in the state of Arkansas and practiced at a local accounting firm in Hot Springs, Arkansas for five years where he performed audits, other attestation engagements, and tax services. Immediately prior to arriving at Ole Miss, Andy was a full-time instructor of various accounting courses at his alma mater, Henderson State. Andy and his wife, Jennifer, reside in Oxford with their two young children, Madilyn and Micah.
(662) 915-5754
Mr. Dereck D. Barr
101 Conner
(662) 915-5754
Dereck D. Barr, CPA (TN – Inactive), CIA joined the PhD program in the Patterson School of Accountancy in 2009. Prior to his doctoral studies, Dereck received both Bachelor and Master of Accountancy degrees from the Ole Miss School of Accountancy in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He then spent six years in internal audit positions at the FedEx World Headquarters following a brief stint with Vitro America; both companies are domiciled in Memphis, TN. His most significant auditing experience was spent leading complex entity audits for the international audit groups.
Dereck's primary teaching and research interests are in the field of auditing. He is most interested in factors that affect auditor (internal and external) judgments and the strategic interactions between auditors and managers. Currently, he is working on projects that individually examine the effect of continuous auditing on internal auditor judgments, how multi-account audit settings affect the auditor's ability to anticipate and respond to the manager's possible tendencies toward financial misreporting, and the effect of professional skepticism on auditor decision-making.
Ms. Sara Gochnauer
318 Conner
(662) 915-5688
Sara Gochnauer, CPA, is a doctoral student in the Patterson School of Accountancy. She received her Bachelor degree in Economics and Business Administration from Rhodes College in 2010 and her Master of Accountancy degree also from Rhodes in 2011. After graduating, Sara remained in Memphis to begin her career in the assurance division at Ernst & Young, LLP, primarily working with clients in the airline industry. She is a licensed CPA through the state of Tennessee. Her research interests are in the field of behavioral accounting. Sara currently teaches a Principles of Accounting course to undergraduates at the University of Mississippi.
Mr. Brian Goodson
317 Conner
(662) 915-3982
Brian Goodson is a fourth year doctoral student at the University of Mississippi, Patterson School of Accountancy, and is a certified public accountant in the state of Alabama. Brian's research focuses on the audit profession's role in the financial reporting environment. His current research addresses issues involving how information provided to external users of financial statements is influenced by factors such as auditors' liability exposure, professional skepticism, and the strategic interactions between auditors and management.
Prior to entering the Ph.D. program at the University of Mississippi, Brian worked in assurance and advisory services for Ernst & Young, LLP, primarily serving clients within the financial services industry.
Ms. Chevonne Herring
317 Conner
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"Just because there's no such thing as the "ucipital mapilary" doesn't mean you shouldn't keep it warm. Screenwriter Samson Raphaelson coined the fictional phrase for the 1941 Hitichcock thriller Suspicion. The actual anatomical term is "suprasternal notch" (fossa jugularis sternalis): the visible dip where the clavicles join the sternum. Often regarded as a mark of beauty, Johnnie Aysgarth makes it the focus of his hill-top wooing. Ucipital mapilary or suprasternal notch, Cary Grant can call it whatever he likes.
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Musician also has choice words for Romney, Gingrich
Megadeth singer and guitarist Dave Mustaine believes Barack Obama was born somewhere outside the United States, and he's not crazy about GOP candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich either.
The comments came in an interview with George Stroumboulopoulos on the Canadian television show "The Hour."
Calling himself a "lesser of evil" kind of guy, Mustaine commented on the eligibility issue and the GOP field of candidates in 2012 before clamming up, saying, "I don't want to talk about my president."
Before he closed down, he said he's concerned about life in America at the moment, as the government takes away more rights.
He said for him, the big issue is the right to freedom of speech: "I've got a big mouth."
He has a lot of questions about Obama but "certainly not where he was born."
"I know he was born somewhere else than America," Mustaine said.
When the host brought up Obama's history, the rocker said, "How come he was invisible until he became … whatever he was in Illinois?"
Stroumboulopoulos concluded Mustaine must be a "birther."
Mustaine replied, "I don't want to talk about my president."
He said his song "We The People," on his new "13" album, sums up what is happening in America: "People having their savings stripped away, Wall Street run amok, $500 million given to Solyndra when the Obama administration knew it was going under."
"I'll have to do some more homework where Obama came from now," he said.
Turning to the GOP primaries, Mustaine showed his support for Rick Santorum, who appears to have no chance of overcoming front-runner Romney.
"It's such a disappointment watching what's happening right now," he said. "George Soros came out and said Romney is just like Obama. So you have Obama's mentor saying Romney's like him!
"And Gingrich is so completely angry."
But Santorum, Mustaine said, is "to me, the guy that makes the most sense. … He just looked like he would be a really cool president. Like a JFK-kind of guy."
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Roche (SWX: ROG.VX; RO.S, OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Roche Investments USA Inc., completed its tender offer for the publicly held shares of Genentech (NYSE: DNA). The offer expired at midnight, New York City time, at the end of Wednesday, March 25. A total of approximately 395.7 million shares of Genentech common stock were tendered representing 84.7% of Genentechs publicly held shares. Roche Investments USA Inc. has accepted for payment all shares validly tendered pursuant to its tender offer.
Together with the 55.7% of the outstanding shares already held by Roche, Roche now holds a total of approximately 982.9 million or 93.2% of the 1,054,555,886 Genentech shares outstanding. In addition, a further 3.0% of Genentechs outstanding shares were guaranteed to be delivered within the next three business days which, if added to the shares already received in the tender offer and Roches existing stake, would represent approximately 96.2% of Genentechs total outstanding shares. Public shareholders who have tendered their shares will promptly receive $95.00 per share for their shares.
Pursuant to the merger agreement between Roche and Genentech, as soon as practicable Roche will cause a short-form merger under Delaware law in which Genentech will become a wholly-owned member of the Roche Group, and all remaining public shareholders will, subject to appraisal rights, receive $95.00 per share for their shares. Following the merger, Genentechs common stock will cease to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is one of the worlds leading research-focused healthcare groups in the fields of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. As the worlds biggest biotech company and an innovator of products and services for the early detection, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, the Group contributes on a broad range of fronts to improving peoples health and quality of life. Roche is the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics and drugs for cancer and transplantation, and is a market leader in virology. It is also active in other major therapeutic areas such as autoimmune diseases, inflammatory and metabolic disorders and diseases of the central nervous system. In 2008 sales by the Pharmaceuticals Division totaled 36.0 billion Swiss francs, and the Diagnostics Division posted sales of 9.7 billion francs. Roche has R&D agreements and strategic alliances with numerous partners, including majority ownership interests in Genentech and Chugai, and invested nearly 9 billion Swiss francs in R&D in 2008. Worldwide, the Group employs about 80,000 people. Additional information is available on the Internet at www.roche.com.
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Background: Vinegar reduces postprandial glycemia (PPG) in healthy adults. This study investigated the vinegar dosage (10 gm vs. 20 gm) [2 vs 4 teaspoons], timing (during mealtime vs. 5 hours before meal) and application (acetic acid as vinegar vs. neutralized salt) for reducing PPG.
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• A bagel and juice test meal (3 trials). [Bagels are a complex carbohydrate source that is transformed to simple sugar (glucose) for absorption into the blood. Fruit juice is high in sugar.]
• Or dextrose [another name for glucose] solution (1 trial).
For each trial, postprandial glycemia was compared between treatments using area-under-the-curve calculations 120 min after the meal.
Results: Two teaspoons of vinegar (10 g) effectively reduced postprandial glycemia, and this effect was most pronounced when vinegar was ingested during mealtime as compared to 5 hours before the meal.
Vinegar did not alter postprandial glycemia when ingested with monosaccharides [sugars, per se], suggesting that the antiglycemic action of vinegar is related to the digestion of carbohydrates.
Finally, sodium acetate did not alter postprandial glycemia, indicating that acetate salts lack antiglycemic properties.
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Source: Annals of Nutrition & Metabolism, 2010;56(1):74-9. PMID: 20068289, by Johnston CS, Steplewska I, Long CA, Harris LN, Ryals RH. Nutrition Program, College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University, Mesa, USA. [E-Mail: email@example.com]


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All University students, staff, faculty, and community stakeholders are invited to an open house about developing campus transportation options on Tuesday, October 4, at 4 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom.
At the open house, results of an online campus-wide transportation survey conducted in April 2011 will be presented. Commuters were asked how they get around, where they come from, where they go, problems they encounter, and suggestions of how to make their commute easier. The survey conclusions provide insights on current travel behavior and commuting patterns of University students, staff, and faculty.
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Irish Potato Soup
This soothing, savory soup is a delicious and inexpensive way to warm up those bellies when it's chilly outside. The star of this hearty dish is the potato, perhaps the most essential ingredient in traditional Irish cuisine. Watch your young chef hone his basic kitchen and measuring skills as he helps you whip up a batch. Remember: Measuring ingredients is a great way to sneak in some fraction practice!
What You Need:
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 3 baking potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/4" slices
- 1 sweet yellow onion, rough chopped
- 3 green onions, cut into 1/4" pieces
- 2 stalks celery, cut into 1/4" pieces
- 1 garlic clove, cut in half
- 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 2 cups chicken stock
- 1-1/2 cups milk
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- In a large pot, melt the butter over medium heat.
- Have your child add the onion, green onion, celery, and garlic. Saute until tender, about 5 minutes.
- Next, ask him to add the potatoes, chicken stock, and salt. Start with just 1/8 teaspoon of pepper.
- Bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes, until the potatoes are tender.
- Pour half of the potato mixture into a blender or food processor along with half of the milk. Pulse until it is very smooth.
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New Orleans police said the situation at the Marriott on Canal Street was all clear after a bomb threat was made in the area.
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Members of a Kansas House budget committee are scheduled to get advice from the attorney general on how lawmakers should respond to the state Supreme Court's ruling on school funding.
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Facebook Search looks to be a game-changer for pharma SEO
It's not even in beta yet, but Facebook's Graph Search, announced last month, is sending tremors through the advertising landscape and looks likely to upend Google's near-monopoly on search advertising. For pharmas and other healthcare companies, the impending arrival of social search raises thorny questions but promises tremendous opportunities.
Given the premium patients place on the testimony of friends and family in matters medical, imagine if, having just been diagnosed with a condition, you could identify friends—and friends of friends—that suffer from the ailment with the click of a button, since many users self-identify as being part of disease or condition communities.
"You're going to look for people who are looking for friends who have possibly been diagnosed with what you've been diagnosed with and want to connect with somebody, or who are looking for groups where they can go and have conversations with people to help them through this traumatic experience," said Justin Freid, director of search engine marketing at Communications Media, Inc.
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"As users become increasingly accustomed to search, social and shopping morphing into a more seamless, holistic user experience, the entrenched boundaries will dissolve, and with them our more traditional notions of privacy, risk and potentially even adverse event monitoring, management and reporting," wrote Pixels and Pills' Mike Spitz in a recent post. "But until then, digital health communicators beware!"
Facebook has, so far, proved mostly a dud as a communications vehicle for pharmas. Fearful of triggering, and inadvertently running afoul of, adverse events reporting requirements, pharmas initially set up pages for their products sans comments, then pulled them when, in August 2011, Facebook mandated that comments be allowed. Corporate pages are, for the most part, dreary, musty, cobwebbed affairs.
"Right now, they're not interactive and they're barely looked at or engaged with by a lot of people, so they're almost just placeholder pages," said Jack Barrette, CEO of WEGO Health. "This is going to make them even less useful. Companies are going to have to ask themselves: What is our strategy for getting people to find our content useful and become friends and fans and followers of our pages, because we need people to connect with us in order to connect with their social graph and for us to be found. If Graph becomes the primary means of navigating the world's largest social network, and your corporate page has few fans or friends because it's frankly just snipped up corporate press releases, it's irrelevant."
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"This creates a potentially warmer and more intimate space for engagement," says Merck's Craig DeLarge, "because Google is the whole world, but Facebook is my neighborhood, and search is just going to make it much easier for people and communities and companies and advocacy groups and bloggers to find one another and create self-organizing communities and networks around a condition."
"And of course the question is how pharma will engage that," adds DeLarge, "and we'll grapple with the usual angst around what will FDA think of that. It's going to be really wonderful for the non-branded social responsibility stuff that pharma does, but on the branded side, it's going to be standoffish because of the usual suspects, like adverse events and off-label discussion."
At the very least, Google will have company in the world of search, and pharmas will need to up their game on Facebook.
"If you search for 'HIV video' and you haven't liked the Gilead site, it probably won't come up, even though Gilead has 25 wonderful videos for you," says WEGO's Barrette. "So step one is, every company needs to make sure they have an active 'Fan' and 'Like' acquisition strategy, because that becomes the new SEO."


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Posted 30 August 2011 - 10:18 AM
The basic idea is to use file contents + directory hash instead of just filename + directory hash for assets published.
What for
We will be able to set expire headers for all CSS/JS/images to cache these forever. Since name will change when file content will change, new version will be refreshed immediately and will be cached the same way then.
Moreover, it's much more reliable than relying on file mtime as we're doing now.
For 20—30 CSS files using hash_file with sha1 isn't significantly slower than just getting mtime of a file.
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Posted 30 August 2011 - 10:33 AM
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Now I've got it...
Posted 30 August 2011 - 02:15 PM
Very good question.
Rails implementation can use SCSS and a special helper named image_url() that's used instead of url(). This helper method gives correct paths in the end.
When using regular CSS it's required to use placeholder variable url(<%= asset_path… %>).
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Posted 30 August 2011 - 02:21 PM
1. Allow combining/compressing assets into a single file out of the box in realtime + caching it.
2. Allow pre-processing assets in formats like SCSS into another common format like CSS.
About #1 I think http://www.yiiframew...dedclientscript is pretty close.
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Posted 31 August 2011 - 03:01 AM
If every time you change an asset file and it gets published under a new name, what happens to the old one?
Posted 31 August 2011 - 09:56 AM
In practice, the version property can be modified by a console script based on the current SVC version number (or some other better mechanism).
Each time we update the production server, this script will be run automatically.
This approach is "coarser" than the file name modification approach. However, it has the benefit that it doesn't need to change our usual workflow (i.e., fixing references in CSS/JS files, which could be very tricky).
Posted 31 August 2011 - 01:15 PM
I don't like fixing references in CSS/JS files either. Your solution will work for medium and large deployments where we can use version control hooks but what about small ones? Of course, you can change version number manually but it's a bit too much for development.
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Posted 01 September 2011 - 10:15 AM
Typically assets are used for 2 things:
1. Make it easy and reliable to publish non-webroot files.
2. Compress/combine JS/CSS automatically.
During development you generally need only #1 but since compression and combining can hurt it's good to enable it during development or at least during final testing stage.
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Posted 01 September 2011 - 10:16 AM
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Posted 01 September 2011 - 06:43 PM
Another idea is implemented in Xenforo avatars - they add ?timestamp=1234 to the end of the url of an image and keep the date the avatar was changed.
Posted 01 September 2011 - 07:50 PM
I've tested hashing the whole file with sha1 and filemtime (I guess that's what is used in xenforo) and can say that both are equally acceptable if you have about 30 assets per page. Calculating simpler hash from a not so long string is even faster.
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Posted 20 September 2011 - 08:12 PM
I create a folder in the root consistent with the name of a controller - for example, I might create a physical "/images" folder in the public folder, but this will initially be empty.
I then create an ImageController, and a catch-all route for files not physically present in that folder - e.g. "/images/<.*:filename>".
The action method in the ImageController now looks at the filename that was passed, e.g. everything after "/images", parses it in some way, and produces a physical file.
For example, the first time you ask for "/images/320x200/kitten.jpg", the ImageController might parse the width and height (320, 200), load the "kitten.jpg" image from a protected folder, resize the image, create the "320x200" folder and save the resized "kitten.jpg" in that folder.
The idea is that missing resources can be filled in by a controller the first time they are requested - on subsequent requests, the controller (and PHP at all, for that matter) is never even invoked.
This gives theoretically the best possible performance, with the limitation that you have to manually invalidate (erase) cached files - so if the original "kitten.jpg" is modified, you have to find "320x200/kitten.jpg", and potentially other versions, and delete them. They will then get regenerated upon next request, which will be routed to the controller.
During development, you can bypass the function that saves the file, effectively regenerating the file on every request - this is usually more desirable during development.
As mentioned, I believe this pattern is applicable to other types of resources - you can think of a compressed JS or CSS file as a "resized" version of the original resource.
Posted 21 September 2011 - 08:10 AM
A month-month and a half ago we started developing the WEB part of a new project witch had to be multi site in essence - same code, different look. Ofcourse theming comes to mind. The tricky part is than every site copy we need is different. Not in "change color scheme, move around some things", but "that's different website with it's own design and layout - only the backend functionality is the same".
Our initial thought was that it will require some clever code and hacking. Guess what? Nothing of the sort! The Asset Manager is a charm - just pass a directory to publish() and it will do the whole directory with all subdirectories. Ha! So we just put JS, images and CSS into a dir in theme and publish it all in one go - all relative paths for CSS and JS stay in place. Every theme just has it's own layout and views - so we are able to tune the HTML for every site individually and they do not have any common HTML, JS or CSS (probably we will figure someting out later with code reusage when we start to make additional sites), but still we have our thing done.
What I'm thinking of is how do you republish the assets if the asset is a whole dir with many files and 1 or 2 files change from the whole set - how do you detect that change? Even more clever question about publishing folders name in assets - it's based only on basename($dir). So even if we make that if we modify some files in folder, make a touch on folder to change it's modification time - nothing will be published under new assets url (like versioning).
Checking for file modifications inside the dir we want to publish is obviously out of the question, but framework cound take into account the filemtime of the dir so it can be updated automatically and under new URL (so we can make assets resources caching permanent or for some long time, witch you usually want). Implementing a touch on a dir on deployment is really a no brainer, and the benifits are hard to ignore. Besides it will make thing even more powerfull
Posted 13 January 2012 - 03:15 PM
First off, we could offer a wealth of features by integrating a third-party component like this one - no point in reinventing the wheel.
The other thing that occurred to me today is, the whole idea of publishing files from a protected folder into a public folder, with generated filename/path based on a hash of the original filename and modification time.
I it's a good time to scrutinize this idea, and wonder if this design is really good or right.
For one, what happens when you clear your assets folder? Currently, any page that has cached an asset URL, is going to get a 404 if the URL of that asset changes.
Perhaps atypical, and you may not care, but in terms of search-indexing, the changing URLs could also be an issue - let's say Google indexes an image you published, perhaps your company logo, and the URL keeps changing, with the old image becoming a 404. (might even affect search engine ranking, not sure.)
As mentioned above, I like the idea of producing assets on-demand, via a controller.
Let's say the URL "http://site.com/assets/28b3cc8e/yii/jquery.js" mapped to an actual controller, which then generated that file. In the case where that file is updated, when the hash no longer matches, that controller could instead return a permanent redirect, thus solving the issue with 404 errors.
In effect, you can put whatever you want in the hash then, it's no longer important - search-engines can update as needed, and browsers showing a cached page will be redirected to get the latest version of each asset.
Of course, this means there has to be some kind of unique identifier for the asset-collection (e.g. module-name) in every URL, since the hash no longer means anything and is only used as a means of forcing cache updates on browsers and other agents.
Posted 14 January 2012 - 11:15 AM
1) Permanent redirect might be the wrong answer. If a resource has been changed, it is necessary to force the client to fetch the new version. Don't know if there are appropriate headers for this purpose.
2) Runtime overhead. Links to published resources should be handled by webserver only, without the need to invoke php, yii or anything else. A fallback to invoke an action for assets that do no longer exist could help in some cases. But this requires URL rewriting and not everyone might have access to the web server config. So I think this should only be an optional feature.
Posted 16 January 2012 - 08:33 PM
Ben, on 14 January 2012 - 11:15 AM, said:
Might be, I'm not 100% sure. My thinking here, is that once the resource has been updated, it's URL changes to something new, and so the new URL is "permanent" until (or if) the resource changes again. There may be a more appropriate 3xx status code for this.
Ben, on 14 January 2012 - 11:15 AM, said:
See my explanation above regarding dynamically generated images - I use this technique currently, for precisely that reason: there is no runtime overhead, PHP doesn't even load, except the very first time a client asks for a resource.
I generate the image on-demand the first time, and on subsequent requests, Apache sees that the file now exists, and PHP never gets invoked; if you purge the folder of generated resource, subsequent requests will simply cause those file to regenerate on the next request - in other words, it's perfectly safe to purge the cache folder.
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Deep in the heart of Republican Texas, Democrats have rediscovered an ATM.
It's stocked with contributions not only from old-school Texans like former Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, who can remember the days when Lyndon B. Johnson and Sam Rayburn cast the biggest political shadows in the state, but also from a younger generation of trial lawyers and entrepreneurs who have moved into the cities — Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and, of course, Austin — from bluer turf around the country.
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National Democrats facing tough races in 2012 have been flocking to the Lone Star State to cash in. So far, Sen. Claire McCaskill has raised about $150,000 from Texans for her 2012 reelection bid, and Ohio's Sherrod Brown took in about $140,000. Up-and-comers have also tapped into the Texas well: Massachusetts liberal Elizabeth Warren got $100,000 for her faceoff with Sen. Scott Brown in a closely watched race.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid also has the PIN: He took $820,000 from Texans in 2009 and '10 as he fought for electoral survival in Nevada. New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez , a former Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chairman running for reelection this year, raised about $440,000 in the Lone Star State in 2011 alone.
House members, too, have figured out that they can fund campaigns back home by drilling for dollars in Texas: Rep. Bruce Braley, an Iowa Democrat, collected just short of $300,000 in Texas between 2005 and 2011, and then-Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar of Minnesota hauled in nearly twice as much money over a two-year period from a Mexican-border district than he did from his own Canadian-border district.
A new POLITICO analysis of contributions from 2001 through 2011 shows that Democrats increasingly have turned to Texas to fund House and Senate campaigns across the country as they have learned that eager donors await them in a state where Republicans dominate at the polls and where there's hope of a Democratic resurgence at home. There's a dip in money raised in 2012, due in part to Democrats losing the House majority — but overall there's been a structural shift in how willing Texan Democrats are to open their wallets.


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