Department of Accounting
Department News
19th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting
November 14-15, 2008
Jim Franklin Named New Texas MPA Program Director
Steve Limberg, faculty director of the Texas MPA program, announced last week that Jim Franklin has been named director of the No. 1-ranked MPA program.
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Kinney Presents at Treasury Department Hearing on Auditing Profession
Accounting Professor William R. Kinney, Jr. lent his expertise to a U.S. Treasury Department committee on the auditing profession June 3 in Washington D.C.
MPA ’08 Sunhee Kim to Join IASB as Technical Associate
Sunhee Kim, MPA ’08, has been appointed by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) as a technical associate. She will begin the prestigious two-year appointment at the IASB’s London office in October 2008.
Read More.Accounting Practicum Receives Governor’s Volunteer Award
The Accounting Practicum course, Federal Taxation of Low Income Filers: Socio-Economic Forces, has received the OneStar Foundation Governor’s Volunteer Award. Since the course was created in 2005, more than 400 students have prepared income tax forms for thousands of working poor families through Foundation Communities’ Community Tax Centers programs. The work of these 400 student volunteers has expanded the program’s capacity by more than 20,000 hours of free tax preparation to low to moderate income families. The award recipients will be honored by Texas State Comptroller Susan Combs, friends and families at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas on June 4 at 5 p.m.
Pictured Above: MPA Faculty Director Steve Limberg and KVUE news anchor Christine Haas
UT Passing Rate on the CPA Exam Highest in the Country
Of the nearly 200 UT students who took a portion of Uniform Certified Public Accountant Exam exam in 2007, 76.8 percent passed on the first try, according to statistics compiled by the American Institute of Public Accounting. UT's passing rate is the highest in the country. Read the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy's article. (pdf)
McCombs Department of Accounting Again Earns Clean Sweep in PAR Rankings
McCombs again made it a clean sweep in the rankings from Public Accounting Report, taking the No. 1 spot on the lists of the most admired undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs in the United States, according to the publication’s 26th annual survey of accounting professors. Public Accounting Report bases the rankings on the largest national survey of accounting academics. This marks the 14th consecutive year that the McCombs School's professional-level graduate program—the Master in Professional Accounting (MPA)—earned the No. 1 spot in the survey. For more on Department of Accounting rankings, go to http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/news/facts/rankings.asp.
Department of Accounting Mission
The mission of the Department of Accounting is to further excellence in the accounting discipline within the mission of the university and the McCombs School of Business. In the context of the department this means
- Expanding and creating knowledge through scholarship of theoretical and practical impact, and
- Communicating knowledge of the accounting discipline through teaching undergraduate and graduate students, training accounting scholars and educators, and interacting with the external business and policy-making community.
