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 business administration. She was a visiting researcher at Haas Business School – Berkeley.

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 the Dean of Business School and later the Rector at Izmir University of Economics. She worked as expert financial consultant in the World Bank and KfW funded infrastructure projects in Turkey.

Dr. Durak started his academic career in 2003 as a Research Assistant in the Faculty of Business Administration from which he graduated. After working in this faculty until 2011, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Yaşar University in 2011 and worked in this faculty until 2024. During this period, he taught various accounting courses at undergraduate and graduate levels, supervised nine (9) master's and six (6) doctoral theses. As of the fall semester of 2024, he returned to the Faculty of Business Administration of Dokuz Eylül University, where he currently works, with the title of Associate Professor.

After completing my undergraduate education in business administration, I started to work as a research assistant at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration. During my time as a research assistant, I took part in various projects and organizations on accounting, management and ethics. I also completed my master's degree in accounting and finance and my doctorate in general business administration. I am currently working as a lecturer at Anadolu University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration. In addition to activities such as preparing distance education course materials, lecturing on the internet, video conferencing and similar environments, academic consultancy, I conduct courses on internal control, auditing, financial accounting practices in enterprises. I have also worked as a project manager and researcher in various scientific research projects on refugee issues, rural development, agro-tourism. My special interests include philosophy, cinema, psychology and gastronomy.

Dr. Hakan Cavlak was born in Izmir in 1985 and completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Izmir. He received his bachelor's degree from Ege University, Department of Business Administration in 2008. He received his master's degree in 2015 and PhD in 2019 from Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Accounting and Finance. His research interests focus on corporate reporting, financial reporting standards, sustainability reporting, firm performance and performance metrics. Hakan Cavlak works as an associate professor at Ardahan University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration. 

He was born in 1970 in Kars, Turkey. He graduated from the Department of Business Administration at Marmara University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, in 1992. He completed his master’s degree in 1994 and his Ph.D. in 2000 in the Department of Accounting and Auditing at Istanbul University, Institute of Social Sciences. He started his academic career as a research assistant in 1993 at the Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Muğla University. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2001, Associate Professor in 2012, and has been serving as a Professor since 2019.
Throughout his tenure at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, he has held various administrative positions, including Vice Chair of the Department, Vice Dean, and membership in the Faculty Board and Faculty Executive Board. Since 2023, he has been serving as the Head of the Department of Accounting and Finance. He is a member of the Muhasebe Öğretim Üyeleri Bilim ve Dayanışma Vakfı (MÖDAV) and the Türkiye Muhasebe Uzmanları Derneği (TMUD).
He is married and has two children.