Gary A. McGill
- J. Roy Duggan Professor
- Professor & Associate Dean
- Director, Fisher School of Accounting
- Director, Hough Graduate School of Business
- Senior Associate Dean, Office of the Dean
Location
- Warrington College of Business
- Office of the Dean
- Fisher School of Accounting
- Hough Graduate School of Business
- Gerson Hall 216
Gary McGill is the Senior Associate Dean of the Warrington College of Business, the Director of the Fisher School of Accounting, and the Director of the Hough Graduate School of Business. He was an Associate Dean in the Warrington College from 2017 through 2021. He holds the J. Roy Duggan Endowed Professorship in Accounting and held the PwC Endowed Professorship from 1999 to 2011. Professor McGill is a CPA (Texas) and spent several years in practice at Ernst & Whinney in Dallas before earning his PhD at Texas Tech University and joining the faculty at the University of Florida in 1986. He has taught various graduate and undergraduate tax and accounting courses, including a graduate course in international taxation and doctoral courses in accounting and tax research. Professor McGill has published over 60 journal articles, book chapters, or research reports. He has co-authored six books, including U.S. Tax Aspects of Doing Business Abroad (AICPA) and West Federal Taxation: Comprehensive Volume; Corporations, Partnerships, Estates & Trusts; Individual Income Taxes (2000-2013 editions), and West Federal Taxation: Taxation of Business Entities and Advanced Business Entity Taxation (2004-2013 editions). Professor McGill is the recipient of competitive research grants from Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, Price Waterhouse, the AICPA, the Andrus Foundation, Fannie Mae’s Housing Policy Research Division, the National Association of Realtors, and the National Homebuilder’s Association. He provided invited testimony to the Senate Finance Committee hearings on Enron in 2003, received the JATA Outstanding Paper Award in 2012 (with M. Donohoe), and the ATA Outstanding Manuscript Award in 2005 (with E. Outslay). Professor McGill has served on the editorial boards of The Journal of the American Taxation Association and Advances in Taxation and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Accounting Literature. He has served on the boards of the American Taxation Association, the AAA’s Leadership in Accounting Education section, and the Federation of Schools of Accountancy (FSA), including as President of both the FSA and the Leadership in Accounting Education section. Professor McGill served 14 years on the AACSB’s Accounting Accreditation Committee, including as Chair from 2022 to 2024, and as a member of the AACSB’s Accounting Accreditation Policy Committee from 2022 to 2024. In 2025, Professor McGill was elected President-Elect of the American Accounting Association, the worlds largest academic accounting organization. He was awarded the James Benjamin Lifetime Service Award by the AAA Leadership in Accounting Education Section in 2024, the Ray M. Sommerfeld Outstanding Tax Educator Award by the ATA in 2018, the FSA/Joseph A. Silvoso Faculty Merit Award in 2015, and he was the inaugural recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Faculty Award in 2015 from the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. Professor McGill has received numerous teaching awards at UF and he is a frequent lecturer on international tax, federal tax, and accounting for income taxes for academic, government, and professional organizations.
Expertise and interest areas
- Accounting
- Taxation
News
Gary McGill named President-Elect of the American Accounting Association – February 28, 2025 – 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…
High school students engage with their futures through campus visit – December 13, 2024 – In November, students from Ponte Vedra High School’s Academy of International Business and Marketing visited the Fisher School of Accounting at the University of Florida…
McGill honored for lifetime contributions to accounting education by premier accounting organization – February 19, 2024 – Gary McGill, Senior Associate Dean of the Warrington College of Business, Director of the Fisher School of Accounting and Director of the Hough Graduate School…
Fisher School the No. 10 best accounting program in the nation – September 13, 2022 – GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Fisher School of Accounting’s undergraduate program was named the tenth best undergraduate accounting program among schools in the United States in…
Fisher School remains among the top 10 best public undergraduate accounting programs, according to US News – September 13, 2021 – GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Fisher School of Accounting’s undergraduate program was named No. 7 among U.S. public programs as part of U.S. News & World Report’s…
Courses taught
- Accounting Research and Analysis (ACG7399)
- Advanced DBA Research (ACG7978)
- Advanced DBA Research (FIN7978)
- DBA Doctoral Dissertation/Defense (ACG7985)
- DBA Doctoral Dissertation/Defense (FIN7986)
- International Taxation (TAX6526)
- Special Topics (GEB6930)
Education
- PhD – Accounting, Texas Tech University, 1988
- MPA – Taxation, University of Texas at Arlington, 1984
- BBA – Accounting, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1980
Honors and awards
- James Benjamin Lifetime Service Award Leadership in Accounting Education Section of the American Accounting Association — 2024
- Ray M. Sommerfeld Outstanding Tax Educator Award American Taxation Association/American Accounting Association — 2018
- Distinguished Alumnus Award – Texas Tech University, Rawls College of Business Administration Texas Tech University — 2015
- FSA/Joseph A. Silvoso Faculty Merit Award Federation of Schools of Accountancy — 2015
PhD students advised
- Vedantam — 2024 — 2025
- Jenna El-Khalili — 2024 — 2025
- Ha — 2023 — 2024
- Sapra — 2023 — 2024
- Justin Kim — 2022 — 2024
- David Gilbertson — 2022 — 2023
- Nicholas Sougiannis — 2022 — 2023
- Alan Michael West — 2021 — 2022
- Bruce Ned Hawthorne — 2021 — 2022
- Clint Buck — 2021 — 2022
- Doanh The Nguyen — 2021 — 2022
- Kanyalakshmi Vedantam — 2021 — 2022
Professional service
- Committee Member, Education Committee, Florida State Board of Public Accountancy — 2007 to Present
- Committee Chair, Advisory Board (Co-Chair), Leadership in Accounting Education Section, AAA — 2024 to 2026
- Committee Chair, Chair, Nominations Committee, Leadership in Accounting Education Section, AAA — 2025 to 2026
- Committee Member, Member, Nominations Committee, Leadership in Accounting Education Section, AAA — 2024 to 2025
- Past President, Leadership in Accounting Education Section – American Accounting Association — 2024 to 2025
- Board of Directors, Accounting Accreditation Committee (AAC) – AACSB International — 2018 to 2024
- Board of Directors, Accounting Accreditation Policy Committee, AACSB International — 2020 to 2024
- Chairperson, Accounting Accreditation Committee – AACSB International — 2022 to 2024
- President, Leadership in Accounting Education Section – American Accounting Association — 2023 to 2024
- President-Elect, Leadership in Accounting Education Section – American Accounting Association — 2022 to 2023
- Vice-Chair, Accounting Accreditation Committee (AAC), AACSB International — 2020 to 2022
Journal article publications
- Executive Regulatory Focus and Tax Avoidance
- Status: Accepted
- Journal: Advances in Taxation
- Accepted Year: 2024
- Authors: Erica Bauman, Johannes (Joost) Impink, Michael Mayberry, Gary McGill
- Homeownership and Taxes: How the TCJA Altered the Tax Code’s Treatment of Housing
- Status: Published
- Journal: Real Estate Economics
- Accepted Year: 2022
- Authors: Brent Ambrose, Patric Hendershott, David Ling, Gary McGill