Michael Musov is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of National and World Economy (UNWE) – Sofia. In 2010 he earned a PhD in management accounting from the “Accountancy and Analysis” department at the same university. In 2023 he earned the scientific degree “Doctor of Sciences” with a thesis on “Behavioral Principles of Management Accounting”.

Musov teaches “Principles of Accounting”, “Management Accounting”, “Sustainability Reporting” and “Academic Ethics” in the BSc and MSc programs at UNWE. He also teaches “Management Accounting for Decision Making” and “Management Accounting for Performance Management” in the UNWE MSc Program, accredited by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), UK. Since 2015 Musov is the coordinator of the Partner-in-Learning agreement signed between the UNWE and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), UK. He has been the Academic Secretary of the “Accountancy and Analysis” department (2016–2022), the Secretary-General for International Cooperation of UNWE (2019–2020) and the UNWE Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs (2021–2023). Musov is co-chair of SDSN Bulgaria – the National Sustainable Development Solutions Network, hosted by UNWE. In 2023 he was invited to join the global Networks Strategy Council of SDSN, chaired by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University, New York, USA. A year before Musov was elected as a member of the General Assembly of the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation HELICAS, Greece.

Musov is the UNWE institutional coordinator of all activities of the ENGAGE.EU European University alliance, coordinated by the University of Mannheim, Germany. He is also a member of the ENGAGE.EU Executive Committee. 

For his teaching Musov was distinguished with the CIMA Teaching Excellence Award by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) at the first-ever CIMA Excellence Awards virtual ceremony on 11 December 2020. This award recognizes lecturers who have demonstrated excellent engagement with CIMA students and effectively helped them to enhance their understanding of the subject taught.

Musov’s research has been published by many leading journals in Bulgaria and also appeared in conference proceedings of selected papers published abroad (the USA included). For his research on management accounting and accounting education in 2015 and in 2017 Musov was listed on SSRN's Top Ten download lists for all papers first announced in the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) in the last 60 days. At the beginning of 2018 he was included in the top 10% of Authors on SSRN by total new downloads. 

In advancing the practice of management accounting Musov has developed and/or financially managed more than 100 investment projects totaling more than EUR 100M. Many of the projects have given him the first-prize edge.