Dr. Gregory Carnes serves as Dean of the College of Business at the University of North Alabama. He came to UNA in 2007 as the Raburn Eminent Scholar of Accounting. He previously served as President of the Accounting Program Leadership Group, President-Elect of the Federation of Schools of Accountancy, and Secretary of the American Taxation Association.

Dr. Carnes has also served as chair of the Department of Accountancy at Northern Illinois University and Dean of the College of Business at Lipscomb University. Dr. Carnes has published approximately 30 articles in journals such as The Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of the American Taxation Association, Advances in Taxation, The Journal of International Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation, The Tax Adviser, Taxation for Accountants, Taxation for Lawyers, and The CPA Journal.

He is a contributing author on South-Western Federal Taxation: Individual Income Taxes, a popular textbook used in undergraduate taxation courses. He also authors material for Wiley/CPA Excel, one of the nation's leading CPA Review courses. He has also provided tax training for national accounting firms and the AICPA. He is a member of the AICPA, the American Accounting Association, the Alabama Society of CPAs, and the American Taxation Association.