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Amy Dunbar, Ph.D., CPA

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Contact Information:

Office: BUSN 431
Phone: 860-486-5138
Email: Amy.Dunbar@business.uconn.edu



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Acct 371

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Associate Professor of Accounting

Joined UConn in 1999

Education/Professional Certification
B.B.A., Macalester College
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
CPA

Other Professional Experience
University of Texas at Austin
University of Iowa
Internal Revenue Service, Revenue Agent and District Conferee
KPMG LLP, Tax Manager
Compagnie Generale de Geophysique, Tax Manager

Teaching Interests
Tax

Research Interests
Tax policy

Dunbar’s research focuses on how tax policy affects taxpayers, both individuals and corporation. Her current work analyzes the distributional effects of a corporate cashflow tax. She has published in the Journal of the American Taxation Association, Journal of Public Economics, National Tax Journal, Public Finance Review, and Tax Notes. Dunbar received university-level teaching awards at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Iowa. Since joining the UConn accounting department in 1998, she received the Professor-of-the-Year Award at the department level, the Chancellor’s Technology Award for her work in online education, honorable mention in the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium/SNET First Annual Teacher Innovation Awards, and honorable mention for her business entities course in the WebCT 2001 Exemplary Course Project. She is currently the Vice-President of the American Taxation Association.