Mrs. Sheela Bhagat/Associate Professor of Accounting/Division of Business

Mrs. Sheela Bhagat/Associate Professor of Accounting/Division of Business

• Educational Background

Bachelor of Business, Administration/Accounting, University

Of Mississippi, 1968

Masters Library Science, University of Mississippi, 1970

Master of Accountancy, University of Missouri, Columbia,

Missouri, 1973

Additional 35 graduate credit hours in Accounting and

Management and Finance

Diploma in Advanced Income Tax, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 1987

• Employment History

India Supply Mission, Shipping Department, Government of India, 1956-1959

Brokerage Firm of Merrill Lynch, Wall Street, NY, 1959-1963

Taught evening courses in Library, Science for University of Mississippi, 1982

Taught Principles of Accounting at University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 1972

• Awards

Twice recipient of Fulbright-Hays Study Abroad Seminar

Six weeks in summer, 1999 to Israel and Egypt

Five weeks in summer, 2004 to South Africa

Received HEADWAY award on February 19, 2002, from State of Mississippi

• Publications

“Materials in India in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library,” The India Archives, 11

1975, 1-14 New Delhi, India

Accountant Dimensions, Fall 1987, RustCollege, HollySprings, Mississippi

 Economic Development in South Africa 1994-2003 (Unpublished)

One Article Economic Changes, Israel and Egypt since, 1948 (Unpublished)

• Bio Information

After gradating from high school and studying two years of college in India, where I was born, I came to the United States. I lived in New York for 9 years, where I worked in Wall Street and with the Government of India. I took some college courses in New York, but received my Bachelors degree in Accounting from the University of Mississippi, where my husband joined the Political Science Department as a professor. I also received a Master Degree in Library Science (MLS) from the University of Mississippi in 1970. Encouraged by my adviser I decided to work for my Ph.D. but due to some circumstances I came back to Oxford and did not finish my degree, but I have taken about 30 credit hours in accounting and finance beyond my Master degree. I also received a diploma in Advanced Income Tax, at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Illinois in 1987. I taught Library Science courses for the University of Mississippi and accounting course at the University of Missouri.

Since 1980, I have been teaching accounting and finance courses at RustCollege. I received twice Fulbright-Hays Study Abroad Seminar award, once to Israel and Egypt fro 7 weeks in 1999, and the second time to South Africa in 2004 to study their economics and accounting systems. I attended and participated in several American Accounting Associations Annual Meetings, as presenter, or moderator. We have one child, a daughter, who is married and lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with her husband and their three children.