Prof. Simga-Mugan received her Ph.D. in accountancy from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Fulbright Scholar, and B.S. and M.S. from İstanbul University School of Business.
She has published various articles in international journals such as the European Accounting Review, the European Journal of Finance, Accounting Education, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Russian and East European Finance and Trade, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Business Ethics, Innovations in Education & Teaching International, Teaching Business Ethics, Business Research Quarterly and the International Journal of Accounting Research, and book chapters. She has also published in Hacettepe İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, Muhasebe Enstitüsü Dergisi, Muhasebe Bilim Dünyası among others. The fifth edition of Principles of Financial Accounting that was co-authored with N.Hosal-Akman was published by McGraw Hill in 2012; and is adopted by several universities. She has also participated as an organizer, presenter and/or discussant at several international and national seminars. She taught financial and managerial accounting both at graduate and undergraduate levels, in addition to doctoral level accounting theory and research courses.
She has worked at Istanbul University, Bilkent University, SUNY-University at Buffalo, and Middle East Technical University where she also served as the chair of Department of Business Administration and was the associate dean of Faculty of Administrative and Economic Sciences. She was a visiting researcher at Haas Business School – Berkeley. She worked as the Dean of Business School and later as the Rector at Izmir University of Economics. She participated as an expert financial consultant in World Bank and KfW funded infrastructure projects in Turkey.
Currently, she works at the family business UCM Tarim and as the editor of Muhasebe Bilim Dünyası Dergisi (The World of Accounting Science) published by the (Turkish) Accounting Academicians’ Research and Support Foundation –MODAV .
List of publications and project participations can be found in the links.